Update README.UPDATING to reflect the major changes for 4.93
[exim.git] / doc / doc-txt / ChangeLog
CommitLineData
446415f5
HSHR
1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
495ae4b0 4
4c57a40e 5
40ed89b3
JH
6Exim version 4.93
7-----------------
8
8a40db1c
JH
9JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
10 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
40ed89b3 11
fc243e94 12JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
d7f31bb6
JH
13 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
14 its own TCP segment.
15
897024f1
JH
16JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
17 each verb.
18
f1be21cf
JH
19JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
20
fe12ec88
JH
21JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
22
05bf16f6
JH
23JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
24 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
25
fc243e94
JH
26JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
27 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
28 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
29 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
30 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
31 suitably configured).
32
c05bdbd6 33JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
e2ff8e24
JB
34 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
35
14bc9cf0
JH
36JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
37 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
38 crash could result.
39
254f38d1
JH
40JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
41 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
42
c09dbcfb
JH
43JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
44 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
45 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
46 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
47 to this system.
254f38d1 48
f9fc9427
JH
49JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
50 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
51 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
52
e6024a5e
JH
53JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
54 output.
55
1fbf41cd
JH
56JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
57 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
58
3c55eef2 59JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 60 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
3c55eef2
JH
61 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
62 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
63 input).
64
cb80814d
HSHR
65HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
66 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
67 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
68 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
69 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
70
7d8d08c4 71HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
82a996b1
HSHR
72 shared (NFS) environment.
73
7d8d08c4 74HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
82a996b1
HSHR
75 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
76 affected.
77
bd83c6f9
JH
78JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
79 on some platforms for bit 31.
80
d9acfc1c
JH
81JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
82 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
83 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
84 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
85 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
86 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
87 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
88 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
89
b10c87b3
JH
90JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
91
7a501c87
JH
92JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
93 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
94
e5903596
JH
95JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
96 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
97 facility.
98
12d95aa6
JH
99JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
100 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
101 documentation.
102
96eb7d2a
JH
103JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
104 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
105 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
106 not do so.
107
59c0959a 108JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
01603eec
JH
109 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
110 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
111
112JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
de517fd3
JH
113 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
114 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
115 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
116 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
59c0959a 117
48519cef
JH
118JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
119 reject under TFO.
96eb7d2a 120
efad2f41 121JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 122 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
efad2f41
JH
123 be requested on all coneections.
124
4e48d56c
JH
125JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
126 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
127
6ee11061 128PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
0a5441fc 129
87abcb24
JH
130JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
131 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
132 one for these; the option was ignored.
6ee11061 133
0a5441fc
JH
134JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
135 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
136 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
137 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
138
436bda2a
JH
139JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
140 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
141 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
142 standards.
143
df98a6ff
JH
144JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
145 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
146 error ignored was made.
147
21aa0597
JH
148JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
149
f3ebb786
JH
150JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
151 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
152 values, to catch one form of exploit.
153
9fa4d5b4
RJ
154JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
155 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
156 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
157
bd231acd
JH
158JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
159 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
160 causing a segfault.
161
7b564712
JH
162JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
163 them in our smtp response.
164
9c6881f8 165JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
dbbf21a7
JH
166 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
167 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
168 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
169 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
170
9c6881f8
JH
171JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
172 link count into consideration.
173
7d8d08c4
JH
174HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
175 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
176
177JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
178 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
179 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
180 surprise.
181
c3aefacc
HSHR
182HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
183
1a2e76e1
JH
184JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
185
d6c829b9
JH
186JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
187
49132a3b
JH
188JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
189 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
190 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
191 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
192
ab0e957b 193HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
40ed89b3 194
c5040dfd
JH
195JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
196 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
197 active.
198
13e70f55
JH
199JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
200 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
201 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
202
2043336d
JH
203JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
204 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
205 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
206
b2d54f83
JH
207JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
208 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
b3317cfa
JH
209 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
210 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
211 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
212 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
213 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
214 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
b2d54f83 215
1bf08084
JH
216JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
217 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
218 resulted in an indefinite loop.
219
7af11cd0
JH
220JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
221 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
222 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
223
c5040dfd 224
d99f54e4
JH
225Exim version 4.92
226-----------------
227
9723f966
JH
228JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
229 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
230
231JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
64b67b65
JH
232 non-signal-safe functions being used.
233
234JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
235 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
236 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
9723f966 237
ea7b1f16
JH
238JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
239 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
240 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
241
cfbb0d24
JH
242JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
243 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
244 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
0488984d
JH
245 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
246 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
cfbb0d24
JH
247 messed with.
248
85defcf0
PP
249PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
250 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
251
1bd642c2
JH
252JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
253 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
254 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
255 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
256 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
257 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
258 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
259
2ddb4094
JH
260JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
261 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
262
1613fd68
JH
263JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
264 legitimate.
265
e6057245
JH
266JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
267 Previously this would segfault.
268
7b9822bf
JH
269JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
270 segfault.
271
d8d9f930
JH
272JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
273 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
274 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
275 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
276 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
277 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
278
61e3f250
JH
279JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
280
7a8b9519
JH
281JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
282 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
283 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
284 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
285
49e56fb3
JH
286JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
287
74f1a423
JH
288JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
289 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
290 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
291 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
292
5054c4fd 293JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
611b1961
JH
294
295JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 296
946515bf
JH
297JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
298 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
299 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
300
8c34c611
JH
301JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
302 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
303 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
304
1bca4f5f
PP
305PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
306
8a6b4e02
JH
307JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
308 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
309 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
310 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
311
0a682b6c
PP
312PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
313 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
314 promised '?' replacement.
315
c2c451ac
PP
316PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
317
8768d548
JH
318JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
319 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
320 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
321 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
322 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
323
5455f548
JH
324JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
325 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
326 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
327
25beaee4
MK
328JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
329 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
330 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
331
7ea1237c 332JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 333 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
7ea1237c
MK
334 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
335
ebda598a
JH
336JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
337 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
338 hope that is portable enough.
339
570cb1bd
JH
340JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
341 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
342 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
343 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
344
eb58ddf5
JH
345JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
346 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
347 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
348
ffbc20ed
MK
349JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
350 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
351 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
352 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
353
4e928780
MK
354JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
355 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
356
75c121f0 357JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 358 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
75c121f0
JH
359 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
360 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
361
e30f4f43
JH
362JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
363 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
364 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
365
a45431fa
JH
366JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
367 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
368 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
369 the previous G, M, k.
370
c0fb53b7
JH
371JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
372 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
373 it was unset.
374
6aac3239
JH
375JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
376 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
377 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
378 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
379
5a2a0989
JH
380JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
381 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
382
de6f74f2 383JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
b72f857f
JH
384 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
385 off past the nul-terimation.
386
de6f74f2
JH
387JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
388 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
389 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
390 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
391 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
392
aa6e77af 393JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 394
25fa0868
JH
395JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
396 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
397 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
398 actually does fail.
399
cb6bd80f
JH
400AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
401 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
402
403JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
404 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
405 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 406
56ac062a
JH
407JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
408 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
409 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
410
ae63862b
MA
411JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
412 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
413
9723f966 414
bb264f6b
JH
415Exim version 4.91
416-----------------
459fca58 417
c39c8870 418GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
bb264f6b
JH
419 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
420 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
421 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
422 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
423 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 424
0800ef83
GF
425GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
426 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
427
459fca58
JH
428JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
429 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
430 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
431 extant use locations.
432
944e8b37
JH
433JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
434 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
435
bbfb5dcd
JH
436JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
437 Previously only the last row was returned.
438
a05d3e34
JH
439JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
440 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
441 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
442 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
443 input.
444
ce93c6d8
JH
445JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
446 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
447 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
448 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
449 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
450 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
451 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
452 Main pool for expansions.
453 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
454 active in the testsuite.
455 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
456
2577f55f
JH
457JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
458 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
459 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
460 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
461 round-robin DNS.
462
5b6f7658
JH
463JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
464 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
465 failure response.
466
c11d665d
JH
467JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
468 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
469 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
e5ba8aa7
JH
470
471JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
472 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
473 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 474
ba0e37b1
JH
475JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
476 rows affected is given instead).
477
96508de1
JH
478JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
479 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
480
06fdb9f7
JH
481JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
482 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
483 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
484 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
485 for all multi-message initiating connections.
486
f83a760f
JH
487JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
488 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
489 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
490
f1fed05b
JH
491JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
492 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
493 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
494 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
495 separate.
496
051d5efa
JH
497JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
498 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
499 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
500 fake-reject.
501
cf3cd306
HSHR
502HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
503
744976d4
JH
504JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
505 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
506
aab9a843 507PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 508 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 509 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 510
83d2a861
JH
511JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
512 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
513 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
514 and send a quit.
515
6741531c
JH
516JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
517 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
518
85e03244
JH
519JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
520 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
521 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
522
c0635b6d
JH
523JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
524 for the build is renamed.
525
b808677c
JH
526JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
527 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
528 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
529
6678c382
JH
530JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
531 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
532 result replacing the original.
533
dec766a1
WB
534JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
535 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
536 and the resources needed to be freed.
537
15ae19f9
JH
538JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
539
e6532c4a
JH
540JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
541 was not propagated.
542
2556b3c6
SA
543JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
544 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
545 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
546 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
547
fc8cd529
JH
548JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
549 length value. Previously this would segfault.
550
71bb51e0
HSHR
551HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
552 newer versions of the scanner.
553
e04bfa34
JH
554JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
555 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
556 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
557 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
c232fc99
JH
558 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
559 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
560 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 561
ecce6d9a
JH
562JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
563 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
564 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
565 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
566 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
567 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
568 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
569 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
570 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
571 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
572
c9cf9ac4
JH
573JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
574 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
575
b3b37076
JH
576JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
577
830832c9
HSHR
578HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
579 allows proper process termination in container environments.
580
f64e8b5f
JH
581JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
582 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
583
8f0776b5
JH
584JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
585 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
586 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
587
857eaf37
JH
588JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
589 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
590 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 591 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 592
c85476e9
JH
593JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
594 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
595 would be spooled.
596
405074ad
PP
597PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
598 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
599
eb445b04
HSHR
600HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
601 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
602 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
603 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
604 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 605
d342446f
JH
606JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
607 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
608 lines.
609
a28050f8
JH
610JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
611 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
612
ddd16464
PP
613PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
614 suffix list.
615
321ef002
JH
616JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
617 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
618 "bare" representation.
619
3203e7ba
JH
620JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
621 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
622 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
623 corrupted the output.
624
bbfb5dcd 625
acfc18c3
PP
626Exim version 4.90
627-----------------
628
629JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
630 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
631 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
632 pairs of long lines into single ones.
633
856d1e16
PP
634PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
635 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
636
b9df1829
JH
637JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
638 This permits better logging.
639
875512a3
JH
640JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
641 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
642 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
643 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
644 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 645 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 646
fc3f96af
JH
647JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
648 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
649 "exiwhat" output.
650
98913c8e
BK
651PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
652 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
653 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
654
8d909960
JH
655JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
656 than 255 are no longer allowed.
657
7006ee24
JH
658JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
659 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
660 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
661 client, there is no benefit for these.
662 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
663 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
664 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
665 is used (3.2.4 +).
666
6e411084
PP
667PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
668 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
669
4c2471ca
JH
670JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
671 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
672 erroneously found still-pending ones.
673
4e910c01
JH
674JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
675 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
676
42055a33
JH
677JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
678 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
679 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
680 signature and again for transmission.
681
eeb35890
JH
682JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
683 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 684 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 685
b7d3afcf
JH
686JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
687 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
688 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
689 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
690 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
691 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
692 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
693
40525d07
JH
694JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
695 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
696 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 697 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 698
f33875c3
PP
699PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
700 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
701 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
702 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
703 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
704 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
705 processing options.
706
a5ffa9b4
JH
707JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
708 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
709 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
710 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
711 connections.
925ac8e4 712
6600985a
PP
713PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
714 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
715 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
716 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
717 versions.
718
ac4d558b
JH
719JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
720 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
721 inaccessible.
722
e69636bc
JH
723JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
724 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
725 banner-time rejection.
726
a843a57e
JH
727JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
728 callout/hold.
729
8e041ae0
PP
730PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
731 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
PP
732 Fixes bug 2140.
733
35a04365
HSHR
734HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
735
4226691b
JH
736JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
737 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
738
d185889f
JH
739JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
740 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
741 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
742 during compilation.
743
0a6c178c
JH
744JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
745 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
746 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 747 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 748
fae8970d
JH
749JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
750 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
751 initial verify call returned a defer.
752
ad1a76fe 753JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
JH
754 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
755
ad1a76fe
JH
756JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
757 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
758
135e9496
JH
759JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
760 if present. Previously it was ignored.
761
f2ed27cf
JH
762JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
763 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
764
7eb0e5d2
JH
765JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
766 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
767 extensible.
768
4f9f4be4
JÅ 
769PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
770 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
771
dc4de9cc
PP
772PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
773 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
774 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
775
ea18931d
JH
776JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
777 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
778 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
779 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
780
0768462d 781HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
2cee425a
HSHR
782 and confused the parent.
783
848214f7
JH
784JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
785 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
786
9e0ed81f
JH
787JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
788 for log purposes.
789
2540f2f8
JH
790JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
791 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
792 out-of-order delivery.
793
e5ab0ba9
JH
794JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
795 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
796 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
797 error for the HELO.
798
e99a3a6c
JH
799JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
800 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
801 desynchronisation.
802
18067c75
JH
803JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
804 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
805 one run was done. Bug 2189.
806
72934ba7
JH
807JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
808 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
809 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
810 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
811 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
812 message is still "Temporary local problem".
813
625667b6
JH
814JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
815 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
JH
816 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
817
818HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
819 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
820 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 821
d21bf202
JH
822JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
823 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
824 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
825 though a different problem.
826
acfc18c3 827
fd047340 828Exim version 4.89
acfc18c3 829-----------------
4c57a40e 830
9427e879 831JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 832 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 833
7b283890
JH
834JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
835
4c57a40e
PP
836PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
837 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
838
5d036699
JH
839JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
840 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
841
f4630439
JH
842JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
843 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
844 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
845 before acknowledging the chunk.
846
f988ce57
JS
847PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
848 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
849 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
850
bd8fbe36
JH
851JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
852 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
853 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
854 should.
855
856JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
JH
857 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
858 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 859
bd8fbe36 860JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
JH
861 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
862
bd8fbe36
JH
863JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
864 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
865 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
866 body hash calculated value.
867
eea19017
JH
868JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
869 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
870 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
871
44e6651b
JH
872JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
873
874JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
875 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
876
877JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
878 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
879 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
880
881JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
882 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
883 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
884 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
885 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
886 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
887
888JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
889 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
890 past that check, despite the cost.
891
b6040544
JH
892JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
893 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
894 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
895
f700ea4d
PP
896PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
897 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
898 TLS library to consume.
899
da88acae
PP
900PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
901
f6ef9370
PP
902PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
903
90341c71
JH
904JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
905 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
906 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
907 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
908 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
909 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
910 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
911
1ec2ab36
PP
912PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
913
914PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
915
916PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
917 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
918 should be warning-free.
919
8b2b9480
PP
920JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
921
922HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
923 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
924
d953610f
HSHR
925HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
926 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
927 general solution here.
928
7dc5f827
PP
929PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
930 already-broken messages in the queue.
931
4bb432cb
PP
932JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
933
3b1a84c8
PP
934JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
935
902fbd69 936
8d042305
JH
937Exim version 4.88
938-----------------
4c57a40e 939
9094b84b
JH
940JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
941 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 942
03d5892b
JH
943JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
944 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
945 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
946
4b0fe319
JH
947JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
948 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
949 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
950 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
951 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
952 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
953 if one fails this test.
954 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
955 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
956
789f8a4f
JH
957JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
958 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
959
23bb6982 960JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 961 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 962
0bd1b1ed 963JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 964 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 965
20b9a2dc
JH
966JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
967 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
968
05392bbc
JH
969JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
970 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
971
1a6230a3
JH
972JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
973
cfab9d68
JH
974JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
975 certificate).
976
98c82a3d
JH
977JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
978 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
979 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
980 connection after a verify cache hit.
981 Do not update it with the verify result either.
982
983JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
984 when routing results in more than one destination address.
985
ae8386f0
JH
986JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
987 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
988 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
989 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
990 when the cutthrough connection is made).
991
0d9fa8c0
JH
992JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
993 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
994
3581f321
JH
995JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
996 Previously they were not counted.
997
ef3a1a30
JH
998JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
999 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1000 that needed the lookup.
1001
4c04137d 1002JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
JH
1003 distinguished as "(=".
1004
1435d4b2
JH
1005JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1006 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1007
eea0defe
JB
1008JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1009
1010JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1011 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1012
4c04137d 1013JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
TM
1014 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1015
1c788856
JH
1016JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1017 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1018 compatible.
1019
e3b1f624
JH
1020JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1021 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1022 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1023 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1024
a57ce043
JH
1025JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1026
f59aaaaa 1027JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
1028 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1029 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1030
d1f9fb42
JH
1031JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1032 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1033 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1034 be lost.
1035
92b0827a
JH
1036JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1037 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1038 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1039 itself :(
1040
ddf1b11a
JH
1041JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1042 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1043 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1044
3cc3f762
JH
1045JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1046 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1047 options.
1048
ae5afa61
JH
1049JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1050
317e40ac
PP
1051PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1052 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1053
8b0fb68e
PP
1054PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1055 are not in the system include path.
1056
ad7fc6eb 1057JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1058 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
JH
1059 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1060 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1061
ee5b1e28
JH
1062JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1063 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1064 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1065
5ddc9771
JH
1066JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1067
8d73599f
JH
1068HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1069 an incoming connection.
1070
446415f5
HSHR
1071HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1072 to rspamd.
1073
8e53a4fc
HSHR
1074HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1075 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1076
87cb4a16 1077JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1078 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
JH
1079
1080
0d9b78be
JH
1081Exim version 4.87
1082-----------------
4c57a40e 1083
82d14d6a
JH
1084JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1085 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1086 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1087 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1088
6c6d6e48
TF
1089TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1090 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1091
ac881e27
TF
1092TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1093 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1094 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1095 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1096 outgoing I= field.
1097
c8899c20
JH
1098JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1099 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1100 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1101 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1102 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1103 check on the next write.
1104
f1b81d81
HSHR
1105HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1106 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1107 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1108 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1109 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1110
f38917cc
JH
1111JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1112 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1113
895fbaf2
JH
1114JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1115 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1116 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1117
805bb5c3
JH
1118JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1119 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1120 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1121 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1122
56c2a7be
HSHR
1123HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1124 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1125
4c04137d 1126JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
JH
1127 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1128
6f6dedcc
JH
1129JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1130 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1131 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1132 distinct.
1133
0f557e90
JH
1134JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1135
1136JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1137
ec0eb1a3
JH
1138JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1139
41e93589
JH
1140JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1141 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1142
98b98887 1143JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
376d2ec0
JH
1144 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1145
98b98887
JH
1146JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1147
858e91c2
JH
1148JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1149 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1150
1151JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1152
6ff55e50
JH
1153JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1154 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1155
3b957582
JB
1156JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1157
23f3dc67
JH
1158JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1159 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1160 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
23f3dc67
JH
1161 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1162 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1163 they will retry in-clear.
1164 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1165 at installation time.
1166
240c288f
JH
1167HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1168 with the $config_file variable.
1169
5ef5dd52
JB
1170JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1171 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1172 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1173 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1174 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1175
e161710d
GF
1176GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1177 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1178 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1179 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1180 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1181
a159f203
JH
1182JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1183
7f06582c
JH
1184JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1185 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1186 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1187 list order is no longer honoured.
1188
4c04137d 1189JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
abe1010c
JH
1190 for DKIM processing.
1191
f0989ec0
JH
1192JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1193 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1194
cee5f132
JH
1195JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1196 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
e6d2a989
JH
1197 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1198 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1199
8c5d388a
JH
1200JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1201 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1202
2d8d625b
JH
1203JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1204 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1205
0cbf2b82
JH
1206JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1207 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1208
f2f2c91b
JH
1209JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1210
ce325893
JH
1211JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1212 cached by the daemon.
1213
de78e2d5
JH
1214JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1215 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1216
379ba7d0
JH
1217JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1218 keys are given for lookup.
1219
f444c2c7
JH
1220JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1221 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
07c73177
JH
1222 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1223 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1224
a57b6200
JH
1225JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1226 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1227 server-side so match that on older versions.
1228
07c73177 1229JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1230 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1231 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1232
4f6ae5c3
JH
1233JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1234 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1235
1bc460a6
JH
1236JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1237 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1238 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1239 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1bc460a6
JH
1240 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1241 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1242 initial truncated version.
1243
ab9152ff 1244JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1245
67e87fcf
JH
1246JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1247
ab9152ff
JH
1248JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1249 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1250
af483912
JH
1251JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1252
bc3c7bb7 1253HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1254
13559da6
JH
1255JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1256 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1257 induced overflows.
1258
59eaad2b
JH
1259JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1260 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1261 stage.
1262
f9334a28
JH
1263JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1264 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1265
dc8091e7
JH
1266JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1267 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1268 former class.
1269
dfe7d917
JH
1270JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1271 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1272 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1273
93cc2d6e
JH
1274JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1275 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1276 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1277 extraction. Accept either.
1278
13559da6 1279
9c695f6d
JH
1280Exim version 4.86
1281-----------------
4c57a40e 1282
9c695f6d
JH
1283JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1284 expanded.
1285
506900af
JH
1286JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1287
ad07e9ad
JH
1288JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1289 it.
1290
01a4a5c5 1291JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1292 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
01a4a5c5
JH
1293 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1294 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1295
cb1d7830 1296JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1297 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
cb1d7830
JH
1298 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1299
610ff438 1300JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
6d580f19
JH
1301 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1302 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1303 TLS connections
610ff438 1304
f926e272
JH
1305JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1306 sites use this now.
1307
50dc7409
JH
1308JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1309 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1310 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1311 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1312 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1313
0f0c8159
JH
1314JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1315 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1316 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1317
1ad6489e
JH
1318JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1319
aeaf5db3
JH
1320JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1321 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1322
5032d1cf
JH
1323JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1324 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1325
7e8360e6
JH
1326JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1327 /defer_ok option.
1328
c5f280e2
AL
1329JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1330 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1331
fd4d8871 1332JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1333 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
R
1334 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1335
1336JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
JH
1337 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1338 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1339
23763898
JH
1340JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1341 timeout value per server.
1342
2ad78978
JH
1343JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1344 now have the list separator specified.
1345
8a512ed5 1346JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1347 option values.
8a512ed5 1348
82c0c8ea 1349JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
JH
1350 under OpenSSL.
1351
cc00f4af
JH
1352JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1353
82c0c8ea
JH
1354JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1355 rather than the verbs used.
1356
b980ed83
JH
1357JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1358 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1359
6c9ed72e
JH
1360JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1361
cfab9d68 1362HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1363 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1364
f846c8f5
JH
1365JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1366 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1367
fd4c285c
HSHR
1368HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1369 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1370
4c04137d 1371JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1372
d2a2c69b
JH
1373JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1374
8241d8dd
JH
1375JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1376 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1377 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
JH
1378 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1379
1f12df4d
JH
1380JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1381
1f155f8e
JH
1382JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1383 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1384
1705dd20
JH
1385JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1386 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1387
038597d2
PP
1388JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1389
474f71bf
JH
1390JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1391
7137ca4b
JH
1392JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1393
dcb1095c
JH
1394JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1395 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1396
2f460950
JH
1397JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1398 added for tls authenticator.
1399
2f680c0c
HSHR
1400HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1401
9c695f6d 1402
e449c3b0
TL
1403Exim version 4.85
1404-----------------
4c57a40e 1405
e449c3b0
TL
1406TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1407 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1408 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1409 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1410 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1411 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1412 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1413
ac20058f
TL
1414TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1415 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1416 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1417 function when detected.
1418
a9b8ec8b
JH
1419JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1420 cause callback expansion.
1421
6286d7c4
TL
1422TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1423 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1424 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1425 instead of bool when processing it.
1426
0f06b4f2 1427JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
JH
1428 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1429
be36e572
JH
1430JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1431
ac4ef9bd
JH
1432JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1433
0eb51736
TL
1434TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1435
c713ca4b
TL
1436TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1437 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1438
bd21a787
WB
1439JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1440 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1441 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1442 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1443 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1444 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1445
8bc732e8
JH
1446JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1447 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1448 exceeded it.
1449
a7fec7a7
JH
1450JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1451 version 3.3.6 or later.
1452
4c04137d 1453JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1454 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1455 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1456 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1457 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1458 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1459 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1460
eca4debb
TL
1461TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1462 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1463
8d692470
JH
1464JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1465 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1466 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1467 matches.
1468
e9477a08
JH
1469JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1470 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1471 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1472
ad4c5ff9
JH
1473JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1474 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1475
1476JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1477 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1478 syntax errors.
1479
3394b36a 1480JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1481
1482JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1483 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1484
3394b36a
TL
1485TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1486 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1487 tarball.
1488
ad4c5ff9
JH
1489JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1490
4c04137d 1491JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1492 Bug 1561.
1493
1494JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1495 output list separator was used.
1496
8bc732e8 1497
1f0ebb98
TL
1498Exim version 4.84
1499-----------------
09728d20
TL
1500TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1501 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1502 return.
1f0ebb98 1503
a612424f 1504JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1505 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1506
1507JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1508
1509TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1510 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1511
1f0ebb98 1512
c0e56233
TF
1513Exim version 4.83
1514-----------------
1515
1516TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1517
1518 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1519 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1520 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1521 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1522 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1523 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1524
7245734e
TF
1525TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1526 utilities have not been installed.
1527
fd5dad68
JH
1528JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1529 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1530
5428a946
TL
1531TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1532 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1533
a3c86431
TL
1534TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1535 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1536 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1537 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1538
aa26e137
JH
1539JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1540
5a1b8443
WB
1541TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1542 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1543
72c9e342
PP
1544PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1545 not dns_use_dnssec.
1546
76f44207
WB
1547JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1548
770747fd
MFM
1549TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1550 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1551 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1552
8ddef691 1553TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1554 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1555 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1556 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1557 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1558 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1559
b9c2e32f
AR
1560JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1561
e45a1c37
JH
1562JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1563 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1564
67d81c10
JH
1565JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1566 failed delivery.
1567
b1f8e4f8
JH
1568JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1569
511a6c14 1570JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1571
1572JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1573 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1574
51c7471d
JH
1575JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1576 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1577
3695be34
TL
1578TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1579
1e06383a
TL
1580JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1581
76146973
JH
1582JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1583 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1584
1585 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1586 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1587 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1588
8c8b8274
TL
1589TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1590 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1591 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1592 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1593
35aba663
JH
1594JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1595
8c51eead 1596JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1597 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1598 lookup).
8c51eead 1599
deae092e
HS
1600TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1601 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1602 Schlichting.
35aba663 1603
fd3b6a4a 1604JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1605 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1606
8d91c6dc
LT
1607TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1608 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1609
2b4a568d
JH
1610JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1611
d2af03f4
HS
1612TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1613 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1614 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1615
9d1c15ef
JH
1616JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1617 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1618
44662487
JH
1619JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1620 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1621 hosts_request_ocsp.
1622
ed3bba5f 1623JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1624 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1625 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1626
8ccd00b1
JH
1627JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1628
8ded8589
TL
1629TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1630 Christian Aistleitner.
1631
f2de3a33
JH
1632JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1633
6eb02f88
TL
1634TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1635 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1636
00bff6f6
JH
1637JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1638 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1639
071c51f7
JH
1640JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1641 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1642
a6d4c44e
TF
1643TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1644 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1645
3ae173e7
ACK
1646TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1647 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1648
c13d09b8
TL
1649TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1650 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1651 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1652
0df4ab80
JH
1653JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1654
66be95e0
PP
1655PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1656 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1657 Jasper Wallace.
1658
1bd0d12b
JH
1659JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1660
0de7239e
TL
1661TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1662 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1663 CVE-2014-2972
1664
fd3b6a4a 1665
2c422e6f 1666Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1667-----------------
1668
1669PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1670
12f69989
PP
1671PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1672 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1673
54c90be1
PP
1674PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1675 by GnuTLS.
1676
1f4a55da
PP
1677PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1678 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1679 routines.
1680
13363eba 1681PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1682
66645890 1683PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1684 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1685 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1686 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1687 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1688
a3fb9793 1689PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1690 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1691 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1692 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1693 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1694 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1695
d27f98fe 1696TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1697
6822b909
TL
1698TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1699
e7568d51
TL
1700TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1701 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1702
ae0e32ee 1703TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1704 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1705 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1706
1707TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1708
e2658fff
TL
1709TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1710
83712b39
TL
1711TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1712 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1713
976b7e9f
JH
1714JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1715
be4a1376
JH
1716JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1717
ec4b68e5
PP
1718PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1719
d7148a07
NM
1720NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1721 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1722
585121e2 1723JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1724
2519e60d
TL
1725PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1726 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1727 function.
a5f239e4 1728
13d08c90
PP
1729PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1730 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1731
bef3ea7f
JH
1732JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1733 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1734 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1735
846726c5
JH
1736JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1737
3a796370
JH
1738JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1739
ea722490 1740JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1741 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1742
b1b05573
JH
1743JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1744 Bugzilla 884.
1745
362145b5
JH
1746JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1747 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1748
3c0a92dc
JH
1749JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1750 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1751
6d7c6175
PP
1752PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1753 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1754 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1755
6f123593
JH
1756JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1757 authenticators.
1758
c8e2fc1e
JH
1759JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1760 for control.
1761
005ac57f
PP
1762PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1763
3f1df0e3
PP
1764PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1765 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1766 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1767 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1768
67bd1ab3
TF
1769TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1770
1771 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1772 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1773 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1774 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1775 the retry rules.
1776
1777 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1778 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1779 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1780
1781 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1782 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1783 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1784 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1785
1ddeb334
TF
1786 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1787 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1788 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1789 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1790 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1791 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1792 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1793
1794 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1795 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1796
326cdc37
TF
1797TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1798
1799 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1800
1801 Resent-From: f
1802
1803 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1804 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1805 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1806 username as equal to the username.
1807
1808 This change corrects that bug.
1809
f62514b3
GF
1810GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1811 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1812 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1813
eb505532
TF
1814TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1815
14c7b357
PP
1816PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1817 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1818 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1819 NULL dereference and crash.
1820
94eaf700
PP
1821JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1822
6f5a440a
PP
1823PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1824 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1825 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1826
514ee161
SC
1827SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1828
fd98a5c6
JH
1829JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1830 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1831 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1832 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1833 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1834 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1835 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1836 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1837 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1838 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1839 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1840
035c7f1e
PP
1841PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1842 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1843
ff284120
PP
1844PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1845 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1846 Bugzilla 880.
1847
26e72755
PP
1848PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1849 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1850 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1851 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1852 an empty string is now equivalent.
1853
0fbd9bff
PP
1854PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1855 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1856 not performing validation itself.
1857
700d22f3
PP
1858PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1859 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1860
fcc8e047
JH
1861JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1862 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1863
4c04137d 1864TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1865
8c020188
PP
1866PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1867 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1868 other false fix of the same issue.
1869 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1870 Bugzilla 1363.
1871
d13cdd30
PP
1872PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1873 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1874
e2fbf4a2
PP
1875PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1876 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1877 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1878
f4c1088b
PP
1879PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1880 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1881 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1882
c5c2182f
PP
1883TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1884
73431ca9
JH
1885JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1886
2d07a215
TL
1887TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1888 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1889
a30a8861
TL
1890TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1891 Alexander Miroch.
1892
33382dd9
TL
1893TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1894 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1895 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1896 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1897 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1898
046172e6
TL
1899TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1900 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1901
581d7bee 1902TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1903 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1904 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1905
1906TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1907 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1908 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1909 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1910
237b2cf2
TL
1911TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1912
9fc5a352
TL
1913TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1914 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1915 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1916
b10e4ec2
TL
1917TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1918
e2cebd74
TL
1919TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1920 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1921 interaction.
1922
1923TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1924 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1925
2519e60d
TL
1926TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1927 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1928
e78e6ecf 1929
4263f395
PP
1930Exim version 4.80.1
1931-------------------
1932
1933PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1934 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1935 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1936
ea722490 1937
b1770b6e 1938Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1939-----------------
1940
1941PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1942 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1943 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1944
23c7e742
NM
1945NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1946
b322aac8
NM
1947NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1948 improved.
1949
4a891427
NM
1950NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1951
c1e794ba 1952PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1953
97753960
PP
1954PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1955
1956PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1957 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1958
df6303fa
PP
1959PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1960 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1961
7e6a8985
PP
1962PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1963 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1964
f1e05cc7 1965PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1966 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1967 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1968
4c287009
PP
1969PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1970
b98bb9ac
PP
1971PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1972 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1973
4a6a987a
PP
1974PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1975
c45dd180 1976PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1977
7db8d074
PP
1978PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1979 non-compliant senders.
1980 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1981
eae0036b 1982NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1983 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1984 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1985
dec5017e
PP
1986PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1987 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1988 in spool file corruption.
1989
c80c5570
PP
1990PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1991 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1992 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1993 "Got SSL error 2".
1994
076b11e2
PP
1995TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1996 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1997 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1998
5407bfff
JH
1999JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2000 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2001
9e45c72b
PP
2002JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2003
e74376d8
PP
2004PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2005 diagnostics.
2006 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2007
4c04137d 2008PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2009 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2010 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2011
7be682ca
PP
2012PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2013 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2014 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2015 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2016
ef840681
PP
2017PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2018 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2019
5bfb4cdf
PP
2020PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2021 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2022 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2023 resolver implementation change.
2024
c6e95d22
PP
2025PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2026 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2027
9cbad13b
PP
2028PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2029
9ee44efb
PP
2030PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2031
6a6084f8
PP
2032PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2033 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2034
12dd53c7
PP
2035PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2036 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2037
9e45c72b 2038JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2039 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2040
17c76198
PP
2041PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2042 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2043 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2044 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2045 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2046
53947857 2047PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2048
eae0036b 2049PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2050 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2051 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2052
9e45c72b 2053JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2054
7390e768
PP
2055PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2056 read-only, out of scope).
2057 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2058
08488c86
PP
2059PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2060 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2061 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2062 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2063
6475bd82
PP
2064PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2065
81f91683
PP
2066PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2067 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2068 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2069 real issues in debug logging.
2070
5779e6aa
PP
2071PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2072 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2073
3375e053
PP
2074PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2075 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2076 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2077
2078PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2079 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2080 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2081 problems.
3375e053 2082
9d26b8c0
PP
2083PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2084 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2085
57eb9e91 2086PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2087 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2088 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2089 needs to override this, it can.
2090
16880d1a
PP
2091PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2092 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2093 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2094
a799883d
PP
2095PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2096 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2097 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2098 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2099
3ecab157 2100PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2101
0599f9cf 2102
867fcbf5
PP
2103Exim version 4.77
2104-----------------
2105
2106PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2107 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2108
f1a29782
TF
2109TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2110
ab42bd23
TK
2111TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2112 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2113
0ca0cf52
TF
2114TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2115 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2116
921b12ca
TF
2117TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2118 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2119 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2120
2121 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2122 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2123 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2124 not safe for signals.
2125
2126 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2127 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2128 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2129 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2130 exiwhat.
2131
c99ce5c9
TF
2132TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2133
2134 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2135 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2136 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2137 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2138 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2139
2140 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2141 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2142 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2143 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2144 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2145 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2146
2147 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2148 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2149 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2150 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2151
2152 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2153 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2154 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2155 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2156
2157 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2158 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2159 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2160 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2161 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2162 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2163 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2164 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2165 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2166
2167 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2168 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2169 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2170 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2171
2172 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2173 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2174 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2175 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2176 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2177 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2178 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2179 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2180 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2181 details in the main documentation.
2182
3634fc25
TF
2183TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2184
792e8a19
TF
2185TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2186
5901f0ab
TF
2187TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2188 repository when doing development or release builds.
2189
7f2a2a43
PP
2190PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2191 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2192
061b7ebd
PP
2193PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2194 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2195 Bugzilla 97.
2196
e12f8c32
PP
2197PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2198
9e949f00 2199PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2200 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2201
2202PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2203 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2204
555ae6af 2205PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2206 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2207
2208PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2209 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2210
6f7fe114
PP
2211PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2212 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2213
c566dd90
PP
2214PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2215 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2216 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2217 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2218
d6cc7c78 2219PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2220 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2221 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2222
0d0e4455
PP
2223PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2224
3399bb60 2225PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2226
2227PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2228 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2229
0ca0cf52 2230
10906672
PP
2231Exim version 4.76
2232-----------------
2233
2234PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2235
754a0503
PP
2236PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2237 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2238
c0c7b2da
PP
2239PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2240
e97d1f08
PP
2241PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2242
084c1d8c
PP
2243PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2244 Bugzilla 1098.
2245
4e7ee012
PP
2246PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2247 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2248
c8d52a00
PP
2249TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2250 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2251
54e7ce4a
PP
2252PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2253 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2254
5ee6f336
PP
2255PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2256 Bugzilla 1104.
2257
c8d52a00 2258TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2259 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2260
2261TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2262 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2263 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2264 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2265
2266PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2267 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2268
10906672 2269
aa097c4c
NM
2270Exim version 4.75
2271-----------------
2272
4c04137d 2273NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2274 Bugzilla 1073
2275
7f3d9eff
TF
2276TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2277 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2278 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2279
159f52d2
TF
2280TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2281 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2282
0cc9542a
PP
2283PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2284 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2285 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2286
f7274286
PP
2287PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2288 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2289
7b797365
PP
2290PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2291 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2292
caacae52
NM
2293NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2294 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2295
09dcaba9
NM
2296NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2297 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2298
bc19a55b
PP
2299PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2300 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2301
bd4c9759
NM
2302NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2303 Fixes bug 943.
2304
b72aab72
PP
2305PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2306 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2307
2fe76745
PP
2308PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2309 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2310
76aa570c
PP
2311PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2312 SQL string expansion failure details.
2313 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2314
f1e5fef5
PP
2315PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2316 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2317
4d805ee9
PP
2318PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2319 extern declarations in function scope.
2320 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2321
cd59ab18
PP
2322PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2323 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2324 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2325 a kernel bug).
2326
332f5cf3
PP
2327PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2328 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2329
29cfeb94
PP
2330PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2331 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2332
660242ad
PP
2333PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2334 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2335
bc4bc4c5
PP
2336PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2337 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2338
2e64baa9
NM
2339NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2340 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2341 Dennis Davis.
2342
4c04137d 2343PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2344
6bac1a9a
PP
2345PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2346
552193f0
NM
2347NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2348 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2349
1b587e48
TF
2350TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2351 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2352
aa097c4c 2353
8c07b69f
TF
2354Exim version 4.74
2355-----------------
2356
2357TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2358 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2359
c0ea85ab
TF
2360TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2361 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2362
0761d44e
TF
2363TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2364
0a349494
PP
2365DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2366 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2367 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2368
2369PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2370 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2371 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2372
fea24b2e
PP
2373PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2374 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2375 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2376 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2377
6545de78
PP
2378PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2379 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2380 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2381 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2382
1670ef10
PP
2383PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2384 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2385 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2386 arbitrary files.
2387
c0886197
PP
2388PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2389 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2390
b7487bce
PP
2391PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2392 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2393 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2394 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2395 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2396
8c07b69f 2397
97fd1e48 2398Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2399-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2400
2401PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2402 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2403 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2404
6901c596
PP
2405PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2406 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2407
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2408JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2409
77bb000f
PP
2410PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2411
a29e5231
PP
2412PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2413
ec5a0394 2414PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2415
55c75993
PP
2416PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2417
453a6645 2418PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2419 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2420 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2421 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2422
8544e77a
PP
2423PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2424 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2425 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2426 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2427 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2428
83e029d5
PP
2429PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2430
ed7f7860
PP
2431PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2432
7d9f747b
PP
2433PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2434
4b2241d2
PP
2435PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2436
10385c15
PP
2437PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2438
dbc4b90d
PP
2439PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2440
532be449
PP
2441PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2442
6a8de854 2443PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2444 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2445 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2446
5dc43717
JJ
2447JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2448
2449JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2450 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2451
3346ab01
PP
2452PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2453 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2454
491fab4c
PP
2455PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2456 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2457 Notification from John Horne.
2458
13eb9497
PP
2459PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2460 compatible.
2461
2462PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2463 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2464 it normally works.
2465
7f36d675
DW
2466DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2467 access.
2468
c1d94452
DW
2469DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2470 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2471 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2472
e2f5dc15
DW
2473DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2474 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2475 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2476 configuration file.
2477
cd25e41d
DW
2478DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2479 option (effectively making it always true).
2480
261dc43e
DW
2481DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2482 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2483
fa32850b
DW
2484DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2485 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2486
79d4bc3d
PP
2487PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2488 run-time user, instead of root.
2489
43236f35 2490PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2491 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2492
fb08281f
DW
2493DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2494 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2495 arguments.
3346ab01 2496
74935b98
DW
2497DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2498 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2499 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2500
90b6341f
DW
2501DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2502
57730b52
ML
2503NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2504
66581d1e 2505
465e92cf
JJ
2506Exim version 4.72
2507-----------------
2508
453a6645
PP
2509JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2510 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2511 typos
465e92cf 2512
453a6645
PP
2513JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2514 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2515 (Finput)
edae0343 2516
9bd3e22c
NM
2517NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2518 Patch from Alain Williams
2519
bb576ff7
NM
2520NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2521
5a1a5845
NM
2522NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2523 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2524
981a9fad
NM
2525NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2526 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2527
7fc497ee
NM
2528NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2529
1a41defa
JJ
2530JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2531
a466095c 2532NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2533 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2534
94a6bd0b
NM
2535TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2536
2537TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2538
2539MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2540 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2541 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2542
c1b141a8
NM
2543NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2544 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2545
b26eacf1 2546NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2547 Patch by Simon Arlott
2548
179c5980 2549PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2550 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2551
9bd3e22c 2552
7c6d71af
NM
2553Exim version 4.71
2554-----------------
2555
7d9f747b 2556TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2557
f013fb92
NM
2558NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2559
0eb8eedd
NM
2560NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2561
663ee6d9
NM
2562NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2563
177ebd9b
NM
2564NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2565
7c6d71af 2566
210f147e
NM
2567Exim version 4.70
2568-----------------
2569
cdd3bb85 2570TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2571 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2572
2573TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2574 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2575 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2576
2577TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2578 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2579 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2580
2581TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2582 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2583
210f147e
NM
2584NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2585 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2586 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2587 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2588
deafd5b3
NM
2589NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2590 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2591 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2592
089793a4
TF
2593TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2594
5f16ca82
TF
2595TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2596
dae9d94e 2597NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2598 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2599
7d9f747b 2600NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2601
06864c44
TF
2602TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2603 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2604 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2605 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2606
65a7d8c3 2607NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2608 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2609
23510047 2610TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2611
7d9f747b 2612NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2613
7d8eec3a 2614NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2615 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2616
89dec7b6
TF
2617TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2618 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2619
a99de90c
TF
2620TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2621 that they are available at delivery time.
2622
e2803e40
TF
2623TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2624
7199e1ee
TF
2625TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2626 incoming_port log selectors.
2627
e276e04b
TF
2628TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2629 setting expands to an empty string.
2630
ce552449 2631NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2632 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2633
e765a0f1 2634NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2635 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2636
4f054c63 2637NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2638 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2639
7d9f747b
PP
2640NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2641 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2642
7d9f747b
PP
2643NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2644 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2645
b52bc06e 2646NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2647 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2648
447de4b0
NM
2649NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2650
4c69d561 2651NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2652 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2653
d5c39246 2654NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2655 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2656
0b23848a
TK
2657TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2658
8f3414a1 2659NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2660 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2661
fb6f955d
NM
2662NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2663
2664NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2665
7d9f747b
PP
2666NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2667 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2668
7d9f747b
PP
2669NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2670 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2671
7d9f747b
PP
2672NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2673 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2674
7d9f747b
PP
2675NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2676 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2677
7d9f747b
PP
2678NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2679 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2680
7d9f747b
PP
2681NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2682 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2683
7d9f747b
PP
2684NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2685 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2686
7d9f747b 2687NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2688 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2689
7d9f747b 2690NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2691
7d9f747b
PP
2692NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2693 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2694
7d9f747b 2695NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2696
7d9f747b 2697NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2698
7d9f747b 2699NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2700
7d9f747b 2701NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2702
17792b53 2703NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2704 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2705
7d9f747b
PP
2706NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2707 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2708
91576cec 2709NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2710 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2711
7d9f747b
PP
2712NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2713 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2714
7d9f747b 2715NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2716
7d9f747b 2717NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2718
7d9f747b 2719NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2720
7d9f747b 2721NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2722
deafd5b3 2723
47db1125
NM
2724Exim version 4.69
2725-----------------
2726
4b3504d0
TK
2727TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2728 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2729 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2730
2731 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2732 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2733 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2734 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2735 build errors in sieve.c.
2736
81ea09ca
NM
2737NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2738 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2739 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2740
f13cddcb
SC
2741SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2742
7d9f747b 2743NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2744
7d9f747b 2745NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2746
7d9f747b 2747NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2748
2749
eb4c0de6
PH
2750Exim version 4.68
2751-----------------
2752
2753PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2754
6a3bceb1
PH
2755PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2756 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2757 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2758 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2759 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2760 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2761 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2762 for iplsearch lookups.
2763
2764 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2765 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2766 previously such lookups could never work.
2767
4c04137d 2768 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2769 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2770 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2771
2e30fa9d
TK
2772TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2773 version.
2774
0806a9c5
MH
2775MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2776 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2777 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2778 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2779 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2780 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2781
ae276964
TK
2782TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2783 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2784
0f2cbd1b
MH
2785MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2786 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2787 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2788 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2789 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2790 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2791
2b85bce7
PH
2792PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2793 local_scan API.
2794
93655c46
PH
2795PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2796
6c512171
PH
2797PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2798 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2799 encrypted.
2800
2801PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2802 by clients under certain conditions.
2803
aa6dc513
PH
2804PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2805 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2806
a96603a0
PH
2807PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2808
8f240103
PH
2809PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2810 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2811
2812PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2813
d677b2f2
PH
2814PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2815
d52120f2
PH
2816PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2817
64f2600a
PH
2818PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2819 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2820
8669f003
PH
2821PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2822
a4dc33a8
PH
2823PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2824 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2825
d6a60c0f
PH
2826PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2827
8f128379
PH
2828PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2829
8932dffe
PH
2830PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2831 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2832 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2833 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2834
ddea74fa 2835PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2836 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2837 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2838
ddea74fa 2839PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2840 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2841
ddea74fa
PH
2842PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2843
ce9f225c
PH
2844PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2845
19897d52
PH
2846PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2847
bc64a74d
PH
2848PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2849 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2850 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2851
eb4c0de6 2852
b4ed4da0
PH
2853Exim version 4.67
2854-----------------
2855
22ad45c9
MH
2856MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2857 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2858 Jan Srzednicki.
2859
b4ed4da0
PH
2860PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2861 issue a MAIL command.
2862
431b7361
PH
2863PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2864
2865 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2866
2867 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2868 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2869 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2870 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2871 item. This has been fixed.
2872
2873PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2874 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2875
83da1223
PH
2876PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2877 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2878
54fc8428
PH
2879PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2880 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2881 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2882
34c5e8dd
SC
2883SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2884
bbe15da8
PH
2885PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2886 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2887 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2888 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2889 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2890
0e8a9471
MH
2891MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2892 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2893 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2894
f0872424
PH
2895PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2896 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2897 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2898 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2899
b01dd148
PH
2900PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2901
6bf342e1
PH
2902PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2903
273f34d0
PH
2904PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2905 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2906 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2907 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2908 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2909
cf8b11a5
PH
2910PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2911
41c7c167
PH
2912PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2913 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2914 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2915 values).
2916
9c57cbc0
PH
2917PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2918
f3f065bb
PH
2919PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2920
047bdd8c
PH
2921PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2922
0ce9abe6
PH
2923PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2924
0e22dfd1
PH
2925PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2926
4c590bd1
PH
2927PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2928 no_callout_flush is set.
2929
09945f1e
PH
2930PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2931 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2932 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2933 fixed.
2934
c51b8e75
PH
2935PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2936
e28326d8 2937PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2938 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2939 other ACL rejections are.
2940
75b1493f
PH
2941PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2942 with slight modification.
2943
7c5214ec
PH
2944PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2945 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2946
4311097e
PH
2947PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2948 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2949 connection.
2950
29f89cad
PH
2951PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2952 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2953
5e687460
SC
2954SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2955
c3611384
PH
2956PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2957 expansion side effects.
2958
5a11a7b4
PH
2959PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2960 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2961 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2962 be the same.
2963
0e20aff9
MH
2964MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2965 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2966 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2967
ca86f471
PH
2968PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2969 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2970 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2971 were accidentally chopped off.
2972
a14e5636
PH
2973PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2974 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2975 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2976 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2977 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2978 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2979 pipelining has not been advertised.
2980
ec95d1a6
PH
2981PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2982
42855d71
PH
2983PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2984 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2985 This has been fixed.
2986
57c2c631
PH
2987PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2988 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2989 reported on Solaris.
2990
58c01c94
PH
2991PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2992 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2993 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2994 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2995 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2996 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2997 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2998
dee5a20a
PH
2999PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3000 cpus.
3001
d2ee6114
PH
3002PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3003
b2d5182b
PH
3004PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3005
79749a79
PH
3006PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3007 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3008 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3009 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3010 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3011 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3012
c456d9bb
PH
3013PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3014 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3015 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3016 host_all_ignored option.
3017
cd9868ec
PH
3018PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3019 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3020 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3021 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3022 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3023 is what is supposed to happen).
3024
ebeaf996
PH
3025PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3026 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3027 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3028 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3029 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3030 uses the Exim user.
3031
2679d413
PH
3032PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3033 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3034 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3035 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3036 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3037 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3038 users.
3039
84024b72
PH
3040PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3041
8005d38e
SC
3042SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3043 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3044 (Jez Hancock).
3045 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3046 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3047
3298c6c6
SC
3048SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3049
a43a27c5
PH
3050PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3051
58eb016e 3052PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3053 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3054 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3055 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3056 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3057 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3058 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3059 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3060 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3061 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3062 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3063
b43a74ea
PH
3064PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3065 advertised in response to EHLO.
3066
b4ed4da0 3067
5dd1517f
PH
3068Exim version 4.66
3069-----------------
3070
3071PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3072 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3073
3074 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3075 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3076
3077 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3078 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3079 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3080
3081 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3082 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3083 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3084 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3085 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3086
3087
93cfa765
TK
3088Exim version 4.65
3089-----------------
3090
3091TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3092 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3093 versions. (#438)
3094
d6066548
MH
3095MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3096 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3097 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3098
4362ff0d
PH
3099PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3100 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3101 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3102 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3103 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3104 rather than extend the field.
3105
93cfa765 3106
944e9e9c
TF
3107Exim version 4.64
3108-----------------
aa41d2de 3109
21d74bd9
TK
3110TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3111 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3112 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3113 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3114 these files.
3115
3116TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3117 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3118 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3119
3120TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3121 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3122 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3123
3124TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3125 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3126 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3127 in the field name.
3128
2b1c6e3a
PH
3129PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3130 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3131 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3132 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3133 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3134 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3135 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3136 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3137 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3138 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3139 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3140
1f872c80
PH
3141PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3142 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3143
3144PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3145 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3146 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3147 ignores EPIPE as well.
3148
d203e649
PH
3149PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3150 (quoted-printable decoding).
3151
cc2ed8f7 3152PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3153 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3154
ddfcd446
PH
3155PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3156
d45b1de8
PH
3157PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3158
3159PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3160
38a0a95f 3161PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3162 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3163
a2405d83
JJ
3164JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3165 in 4.64-PH/09.
3166
3167JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3168 miscellaneous code fixes
3169
6ea85e9a
PH
3170PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3171 rejections.
3172
26da7e20
PH
3173PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3174 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3175 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3176 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3177 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3178 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3179 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3180 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3181
14aa5a05 3182PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3183 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3184 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3185 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3186 function.
3187 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3188 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3189 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3190 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3191 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3192 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3193 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3194 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3195 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3196
ff75a1f7
PH
3197PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3198 decoding.
3199
e6f6568e
PH
3200PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3201 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3202 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3203 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3204 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3205 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3206 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3207 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3208
d6f6e0dc
PH
3209PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3210 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3211 list.
3212
322050c2
PH
3213PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3214 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3215 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3216 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3217 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3218 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3219 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3220 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3221 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3222 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3223 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3224 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3225 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3226
08955dd3
PH
3227PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3228 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3229 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3230 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3231 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3232 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3233 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3234
1eccaa59
PH
3235PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3236 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3237 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3238 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3239 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3240 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3241 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3242 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3243 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3244 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3245
602e59e5
PH
3246PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3247 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3248 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3249 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3250 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3251
411ef850
PH
3252PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3253 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3254 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3255 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3256 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3257 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3258 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3259
7befa435
PH
3260PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3261 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3262 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3263 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3264 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3265 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3266 been verified.
3267
48da4259 3268PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3269 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3270 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3271 and authorization.)
3272
48da4259
PH
3273PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3274 if any retry times were supplied.
3275
d1d5595c
PH
3276PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3277 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3278 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3279
0ef732d9
PH
3280PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3281
328895cc
PH
3282PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3283
fd700877
PH
3284PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3285 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3286 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3287 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3288 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3289 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3290
8dce1a6f
PH
3291PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3292 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3293
17af4a17
PH
3294PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3295 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3296 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3297
3298PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3299 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3300 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3301 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3302 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3303 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3304 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3305 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3306 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3307
3308 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3309 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3310 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3311 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3312 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3313 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3314 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3315 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3316 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3317
3318 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3319 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3320 hammering the server.
3321
c1114884
PH
3322PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3323 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3324
7a0743eb
PH
3325PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3326
0d85fa3f
PH
3327PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3328 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3329 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3330
1bf43b78
PH
3331PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3332 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3333 one case where this was not true.
3334
520de300
PH
3335PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3336 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3337 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3338 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3339 fails.
3340
48c7f9e2
PH
3341PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3342 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3343 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3344 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3345 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3346 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3347 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3348 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3349 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3350 smtp transport.
3351
99ea1c86
PH
3352PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3353 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3354 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3355 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3356
a2042e78
PH
3357PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3358 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3359
4fbcfc2e
PH
3360PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3361 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3362 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3363
aa41d2de
PH
3364PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3365
af561417
PH
3366PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3367
3cc66b45
PH
3368PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3369
194cc0e4
PH
3370PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3371 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3372 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3373 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3374
a401ddaa
PH
3375PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3376 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3377
4e88a19f
PH
3378PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3379 be meaningful with "accept".
3380
d7d7b289
SC
3381SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3382 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3383
3384SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3385 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3386 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3387
3388SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3389 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3390 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3391 there is data to show.
3392 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3393
3394SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3395 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3396 as well as the number of messages.
3397
3398SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3399 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3400 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3401
3402SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3403 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3404 have a flag are now skipped.
3405
3406SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3407 Added the -emptyok flag.
3408
3409SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3410 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3411
0ea2a468
JJ
3412JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3413 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3414 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3415
3416JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3417 match 4.64-PH/13
3418
3419JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3420 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3421
3422JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3423
3424JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3425 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3426
8a10f5a4
PH
3427PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3428
30e18802
PH
3429PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3430 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3431 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3432 contravention of the specifications.
3433
55728a4f
PH
3434PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3435 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3436 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3437
d7837193
PH
3438PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3439 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3440 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3441
87054a31
PH
3442PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3443
ea2c01d2
MH
3444MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3445 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3446 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3447 some point in the past.
3448
e4fa6968
PH
3449PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3450 transport during callout processing was broken.
3451
56f5d9bd
PH
3452PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3453 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3454
922e1c28
PH
3455PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3456 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3457
21eb6e72
PH
3458PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3459 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3460
a0540757
PH
3461PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3462
944e9e9c 3463
478be7b0
SC
3464Exim version 4.63
3465-----------------
3466
3467SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3468 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3469
3470SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3471 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3472 there is data to show.
3473 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3474
3475SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3476 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3477
2b965a65
TF
3478TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3479 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3480
45b91596
PH
3481TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3482 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3483
c59f5781
TF
3484TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3485 submissions from trusted users.
3486
90fc3069
TF
3487TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3488 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3489
6083aca0
TF
3490TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3491 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3492 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3493 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3494 there is now a framework to start from.
3495
765b530f
PH
3496PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3497 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3498 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3499
4e167a8c
PH
3500PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3501
4608d683
PH
3502PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3503
b8dc3e4a
PH
3504PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3505
5418e93b
PH
3506PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3507 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3508 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3509
b4a9bda2
PH
3510PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3511 libradius.
3512
45b91596
PH
3513PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3514 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3515 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3516
5547e2c5
PH
3517PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3518 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3519 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3520 its arguments.
3521
dbcef0ea
PH
3522PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3523 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3524 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3525 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3526 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3527
25257489
PH
3528PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3529 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3530
c816d124
PH
3531PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3532
a9ccd69a
PH
3533PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3534 operations in malware.c.
3535
75fa1910
PH
3536PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3537 signatures.
3538
a7d7aa58
PH
3539PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3540 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3541 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3542 all.
3543
42119b09
PH
3544PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3545 statements to "add_header".
3546
41609df5
PH
3547PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3548 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3549
a5bd321b
PH
3550PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3551 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3552 latter.
3553
e85a7ad5 3554PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3555 so that it is now:
3556
e85a7ad5
PH
3557 ${if or { \
3558 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3559 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3560 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3561 }{no}{yes}}
3562
e85a7ad5
PH
3563 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3564 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3565
d8fe1c03
PH
3566PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3567 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3568
16282d2b
PH
3569PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3570 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3571 any possible encoding problems.
3572
35d40a98
PH
3573PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3574 but not after initializing Perl.
3575
034d99ab
PH
3576PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3577 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3578 apparently, which is not desirable.
3579
6ec97b1b
PH
3580PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3581 queries.
3582
e22ca4ac
JJ
3583JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3584 --not options
3585
3586JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3587
33d73e3b
PH
3588PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3589 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3590 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3591 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3592
9ecb03f3
PH
3593PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3594 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3595 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3596
084efe8d
PH
3597PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3598 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3599 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3600 0.12.
3601
366fc9f0
PH
3602PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3603 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3604 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3605 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3606 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3607
c59f5781 3608
c887c79e
TF
3609Exim version 4.62
3610-----------------
3611
3612TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3613 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3614
1cce3af8
PH
3615PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3616 patch).
3617
afb3eaaf
PH
3618PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3619 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3620 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3621 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3622 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3623 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3624 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3625 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3626 451 error is used.
3627
e173618b
PH
3628PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3629
dd16e114
PH
3630PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3631 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3632 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3633
f7fd3850
PH
3634PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3635 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3636 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3637 odd errors.
3638
d87df92c
PH
3639PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3640 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3641
7e9f683d
PH
3642PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3643 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3644 option (which defaults to 0600).
3645
bfad5236
PH
3646PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3647
01c490df
PH
3648PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3649 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3650 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3651 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3652 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3653 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3654 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3655
d6629cdc
PH
3656PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3657
1cce3af8 3658
214e2000
PH
3659Exim version 4.61
3660-----------------
3661
3662PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3663 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3664 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3665 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3666 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3667 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3668 addresses as local.
3669
f9daeae0
PH
3670PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3671 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3672
7e66e54d
PH
3673PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3674
c8ea1597
PH
3675PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3676 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3677 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3678 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3679 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3680 grumble.
3681
911f6fde
PH
3682PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3683 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3684
47ca6d6c
PH
3685PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3686 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3687 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3688 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3689 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3690
ed0e9820
PH
3691PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3692 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3693 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3694 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3695
eff37e47
PH
3696PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3697 be the same on different OS.
3698
1921d2ea
PH
3699PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3700 testing.
3701
b3f69ca8
JJ
3702JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3703 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3704
3705JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3706 in 4.61-PH/06
3707
424a1c63
PH
3708PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3709 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3710 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3711 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3712 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3713 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3714 bounce message.
3715
7a100415
PH
3716PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3717 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3718 when Exim was called.
3719
19b9dc85
PH
3720PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3721 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3722
309bd837
PH
3723PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3724 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3725 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3726 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3727
59e82a2a
PH
3728PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3729 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3730 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3731 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3732 changes:
3733
3734 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3735 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3736 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3737
3738 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3739 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3740 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3741
9edc04ce
PH
3742PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3743 feature).
3744
1349e1e5
PH
3745PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3746 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3747 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3748 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3749 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3750 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3751 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3752 values from the SRV records were lost.
3753
ea49d0e1
PH
3754PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3755 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3756 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3757
064a94c9
PH
3758PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3759 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3760 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3761
727071f8
PH
3762PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3763 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3764 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3765 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3766 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3767 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3768 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3769 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3770 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3771 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3772
f78eb7c6
PH
3773PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3774 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3775 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3776
21c28500
PH
3777PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3778 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3779
3780PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3781 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3782 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3783 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3784 is given.
3785
1688f43b
PH
3786PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3787 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3788 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3789
3790PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3791 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3792 PH/23 above applies.
3793
9675b384
PH
3794PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3795 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3796 (for which there is an explicit test).
3797
6a3f1455
PH
3798PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3799
dac79d3e
PH
3800PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3801 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3802 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3803 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3804 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3805
5977a0b3
PH
3806PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3807 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3808 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3809 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3810
c91535f3
PH
3811PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3812 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3813 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3814
0d46a8c8
PH
3815PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3816
278c6e6c
PH
3817PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3818
2cbb4081
PH
3819PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3820 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3821 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3822
3eef829e
PH
3823PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3824 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3825 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3826 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3827 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3828
1ab95fa6
PH
3829PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3830 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3831 the message gets confusing).
3832
230205fc
PH
3833PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3834 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3835 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3836 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3837
75e0e026
PH
3838PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3839 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3840 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3841 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3842 same order.
3843
3844PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3845 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3846 the different processes.
3847
145396a6
PH
3848PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3849
3cd34f13
PH
3850PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3851
11121d3d
JJ
3852JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3853 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3854
3855JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3856 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3857
3858JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3859 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3860 messages matching specified criteria.
3861
8def5aaf
PH
3862PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3863
929ba01c
PH
3864PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3865 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3866
2632889e
PH
3867PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3868 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3869 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3870 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3871 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3872 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3873 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3874 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3875 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3876 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3877
944a9c55
PH
3878PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3879 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3880 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3881
4a23603b
PH
3882PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3883
4730f942
PH
3884PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3885 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3886 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3887 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3888 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3889 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3890 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3891 the variable.
3892
30dba1e6
PH
3893PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3894 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3895
382afc6b
PH
3896PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3897
a86229cf
PH
3898PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3899
50c99ba6
PH
3900PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3901
d35e429d
PH
3902PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3903 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3904 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3905 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3906 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3907 size of the count of files.
3908
f90d018c
PH
3909PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3910
75def545
PH
3911PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3912 used in LMTP mode:
3913
3914 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3915 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3916 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3917 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3918
3919 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3920 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3921 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3922
3923PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3924 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3925 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3926 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3927 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3928
c46782ef
PH
3929PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3930 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3931
71fafd95
PH
3932PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3933 will now be deprecated.
3934
2c5db4fd
PH
3935PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3936
9cf6b11a
JJ
3937JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3938 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3939 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3940
3941JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3942 with very large, slow to parse queues
3943
3944JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3945
3946JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3947
898d150f
PH
3948PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3949 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3950 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3951 SMTP output lines.
3952
46218253
PH
3953PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3954 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3955 Sieve code now uses this.
3956
e97957bc
PH
3957PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3958 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3959
81e509d7
PH
3960PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3961 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3962
3d240ff7
PH
3963PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3964
b37c4101
PH
3965PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3966 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3967 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3968 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3969 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3970
79378e0f
PH
3971PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3972 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3973 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3974 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3975
e49c7bb4
PH
3976PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3977
d114ec46
PH
3978PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3979
f3d7df6c
PH
3980PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3981 is preferred over IPv4.
3982
715ab376
PH
3983PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3984 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3985 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3986 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3987 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3988 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3989 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3990
6b31b150
PH
3991PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3992 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3993 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3994
3995PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3996
d515a917
PH
3997PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3998 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3999 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4000 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4001 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4002 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4003 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4004 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4005 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4006 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4007 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4008
9b8fadde
PH
4009PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4010 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4011 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4012
214e2000 4013
5de37277
PH
4014Exim version 4.60
4015-----------------
4016
cc38ddbf
PH
4017PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4018
4019 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4020 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4021
4022 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4023 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4024 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4025
72fdd6ae
PH
4026PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4027
4028 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4029 not a single digit.
4030
4031 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4032 string.
4033
4034 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4035 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4036 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4037 silly things.
4038
4039 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4040 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4041
4042 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4043 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4044
cb741023
PH
4045PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4046 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4047 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4048
f174f16e
PH
4049PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4050 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4051
c25242d7
PH
4052PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4053 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4054
4055 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4056
4057 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4058 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4059 this:
4060
4061 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4062
82c19f95
PH
4063PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4064 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4065 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4066 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4067 identical. For example:
4068
4069 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4070
4071 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4072 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4073 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4074
d7ffbc12
PH
4075PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4076 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4077 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4078 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4079
9f526266
PH
4080PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4081 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4082 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4083 message.
4084
87fcc8b9
PH
4085PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4086
4087 o fixes some comments
4088 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4089 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4090 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4091 and documents the missing references header update
4092
4093 and most important:
4094
4095 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4096 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4097 result)
4098
456682f5
PH
4099PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4100 Electronic Mail") by including:
4101
4102 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4103
4104 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4105 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4106 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4107 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4108 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4109
4110 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4111
4112 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4113
4114 The auto-replied keyword:
4115
4116 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4117 message by an automatic process,
4118
4119 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4120
4121 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4122 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4123
4124 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4125 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4126 other messages.
4127
3e46c1aa
PH
4128PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4129 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4130
49826d12
PH
4131PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4132
eba0c039
PH
4133PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4134 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4135 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4136
a0d6ba8a
PH
4137PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4138 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4139 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4140
f0917727
PH
4141PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4142 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4143 and treats the condition as false.
4144
096fee00
PH
4145PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4146
024bd3c2
PH
4147PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4148 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4149 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4150 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4151 not changing the active code.
4152
4153 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4154 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4155
4156 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4157 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4158
df199fec
PH
4159PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4160 (Bugzilla #53).
4161
d27f1df3
PH
4162PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4163 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4164 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4165 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4166 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4167 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4168 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4169 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4170 the text comparison.
4171
96776534
PH
4172PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4173 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4174 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4175 The same fix has been applied.
4176
5de37277 4177
9a799bc0
PH
4178Exim version 4.54
4179-----------------
4180
4181PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4182 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4183 It now does.
4184
99a4b039
PH
4185PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4186 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4187
4188PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4189
4b233853
PH
4190PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4191 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4192 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4193 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4194 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4195
8857ccfd
PH
4196TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4197 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4198 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4199 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4200 or /domain=).
4201
433a2980
PH
4202PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4203 testing suite.
4204
3e46c1aa 4205
9a799bc0 4206
e3a311ba
TK
4207Exim version 4.53
4208-----------------
4209
4210TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4211 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4212
13b685f9
PH
4213PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4214
395ff96d
PH
4215PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4216
5b68f6e4
PH
4217PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4218 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4219 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4220
1ab52c69
PH
4221PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4222 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4223 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4224
b07e6aa3
PH
4225PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4226 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4227 operating systems.
4228
254e032f
PH
4229PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4230 ${stat: expansion item.
4231
3af76a81
PH
4232PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4233 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4234
2548ba04
PH
4235PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4236 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4237 file for comments.
4238
b6c6011d
PH
4239PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4240
cf39cf57
PH
4241PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4242 setting.
4243
f1513293
PH
4244PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4245 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4246
727549a4
PH
4247TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4248
af46795e
PH
4249PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4250 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4251 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4252 the end of the subprocess.
4253
d7b47fd0
PH
4254PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4255 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4256 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4257 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4258 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4259
ee744174
JJ
4260JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4261
b582ab87
PH
4262TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4263
41a13e0a
PH
4264PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4265 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4266
f625cc5a
PH
4267PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4268
4269PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4270
21f7af35
PH
4271PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4272 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4273 HP-UX compiler.
4274
31480e42
PH
4275PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4276
2d280592
PH
4277PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4278 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4279 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4280
7cd1141b
PH
4281PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4282 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4283
4284PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4285 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4286
750af86e
PH
4287PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4288 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4289
4290 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4291 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4292
4293 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4294 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4295 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4296 contributed by a Radius user.
4297
4298PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4299 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4300
4304270b
TK
4301TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4302 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4303
750af86e
PH
4304PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4305 available.
4306
64ffc24f
PH
4307PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4308 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4309 received.
4310
5dd9625b
PH
4311PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4312 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4313 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4314 header lines when this was not necessary.
4315
5591031b
PH
4316PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4317
ba18e66a
PH
4318PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4319 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4320 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4321 exists".
4322
9cec981f
PH
4323PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4324 -bV or -d is used.
4325
aa2b5c79
PH
4326PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4327 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4328 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4329 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4330
48a53b7f
PH
4331PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4332
1c59d63b
PH
4333PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4334
671012da
TK
4335TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4336
1509d3a8
PH
4337PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4338
4339PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4340 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4341 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4342 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4343 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4344 settings.
4345
4346PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4347
2fe1a124
PH
4348PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4349 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4350 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4351 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4352 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4353 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4354 which is clearly wrong.
4355
8800895a
PH
4356PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4357
ccfdb010
PH
4358PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4359 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4360 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4361 subsequently added.
4362
1130bfb0
PH
4363PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4364 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4365
ebcb507f
PH
4366PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4367
c35e155c
PH
4368PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4369 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4370
95d1f782
PH
4371PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4372 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4373
fd6de02e
PH
4374PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4375 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4376
58de37c5
PH
4377PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4378 recipients, not senders.
4379
261cf466
TF
4380TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4381 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4382
3ee512ff
PH
4383PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4384
e08c430f
PH
4385PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4386
bef5a11f
PH
4387PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4388 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4389 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4390 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4391
7546de58
TF
4392TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4393
e5d5a95f
TF
4394TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4395 clock is set back in time.
4396
2e88a017
TF
4397TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4398 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4399
a5f65aa4
TF
4400TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4401 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4402
e7726cbf
PH
4403PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4404 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4405 (see PH/47 above).
4406
a7fdad5b
TF
4407TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4408 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4409 header rewrites.
4410
6af56900
PH
4411PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4412 type ("H").
4413
0925ede6
PH
4414PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4415
66afa403
TF
4416TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4417 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4418 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4419
0154e85a
TF
4420TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4421 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4422 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4423 helo verification defer as a failure.
4424
16f12c76
PH
4425PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4426 actual error message.
4427
bbe902f0 4428
e5a9dba6
PH
4429Exim version 4.52
4430-----------------
4431
4432TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4433
22c3b60b
PH
4434PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4435 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4436 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4437 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4438
06a9b4b5
PH
4439TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4440
c1ac6996
PH
4441PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4442 can still be requested.
4443
9c7a242c
PH
4444PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4445 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4446 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4447 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4448
87ba3f5f
PH
4449TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4450 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4451 circumstances, but probably never did.
4452
4453PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4454 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4455 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4456 in the header line.
4457
29aba418
TF
4458TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4459
fe0dab11
TF
4460TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4461 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4462
11d337a4
TK
4463TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4464
4465TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4466
415c8f3b
PH
4467PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4468 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4469 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4470 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4471 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4472 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4473
958541e9
PH
4474PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4475 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4476 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4477 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4478 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4479 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4480
c206415f
TK
4481TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4482 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4483
2a4be8f9
PH
4484PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4485 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4486
1cba11c5
SC
4487SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4488 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4489
4c04137d 4490SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4491
4492SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4493
4494SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4495
4496SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4497
4498SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4499
4500SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4501
1005d00e
TK
4502TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4503
4504TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4505 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4506 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4507
4508TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4509 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4510 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4511 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4512
9b4768fa
PH
4513PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4514 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4515 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4516
4517PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4518 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4519 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4520 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4521
0d7eb84a
PH
4522PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4523 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4524 to be made).
4525
4526PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4527 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4528 should work with maildirs and everything.
4529
40727bee
TK
4530TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4531 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4532
554d2369
TF
4533TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4534 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4535
1f922db1
PH
4536PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4537 function for BDB 4.3.
4538
ef213c3b
PH
4539PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4540
8ac170f3
PH
4541PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4542 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4543 involved.
4544
b1c749bb
PH
4545PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4546 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4547 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4548 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4549 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4550 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4551
4aac9b49
PH
4552PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4553 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4554 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4555 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4556 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4557 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4558 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4559 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4560
294520c8
TK
4561TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4562 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4563 details.
4564
5bd022fe
PH
4565PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4566 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4567
90e9ce59
PH
4568PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4569 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4570 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4571 test. It is now used for both.
4572
5ea81592
PH
4573PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4574 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4575 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4576 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4577 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4578 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4579
c6c2dc1d
PH
4580PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4581 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4582 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4583 string_vformat().
4584
fffffe4c
PH
4585PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4586 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4587 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4588
9a26b6b2
PH
4589PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4590 experimental DomainKeys support:
4591
4592 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4593 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4594 the control was given.
4595
4596 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4597
4aee0225
PH
4598PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4599
32d668a5
PH
4600PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4601
8187c3f3
PH
4602PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4603 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4604 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4605 db.h files).
4606
ff790e47 4607PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4608 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4609 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4610 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4611 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4612 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4613 course.
ff790e47 4614
5417f6d1
PH
4615PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4616 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4617 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4618 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4619 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4620 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4621
59cf8544
PH
4622PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4623 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4624 do -d+all out of habit.
4625
e7ad8a65
PH
4626PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4627 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4628 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4629
ade42478
PH
4630PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4631 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4632 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4633 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4634 record types that Exim uses.
4635
182ad5cf
PH
4636PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4637 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4638 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4639 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4640 non-existent file that was broken.
4641
b0d9fc80
TK
4642TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4643 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4644
4645TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4646 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4647 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4648
4649TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4650
47c7a64a
PH
4651PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4652 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4653 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4654 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4655 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4656 same time.
4657
a388bce4
SC
4658SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4659 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4660 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4661 at a slight CPU cost.
4662
4663SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4664 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4665
4666SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4667 by Marc Sherman.
4668
0793e4ed
SC
4669SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4670
c58b88df
PH
4671PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4672 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4673
e7ad8a65 4674
7982096b
PH
4675Exim version 4.51
4676-----------------
4677
1a46a8c5
PH
4678TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4679 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4680
2f079f46 4681TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4682
4683TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4684
4685PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4686 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4687
4688PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4689 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4690 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4691 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4692 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4693 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4694 file.
4695
4696PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4697 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4698 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4699 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4700 these two options.
4701
4702PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4703 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4704 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4705 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4706 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4707 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4708 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4709 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4710
4711PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4712 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4713
4714PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4715 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4716 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4717 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4718 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4719 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4720
4721PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4722 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4723 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4724 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4725
4726PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4727 Finch).
4728
4729PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4730 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4731
49c2d5ea
PH
4732PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4733 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4734 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4735 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4736 message.
49c2d5ea 4737
bf759a8b
PH
4738PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4739
83364d30
PH
4740PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4741 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4742
7999bbd7
PH
4743PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4744 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4745 to what was transported.)
4746
7dbf77c9
PH
4747TF/01 Added $received_time.
4748
74e0617f
PH
4749PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4750 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4751 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4752 spamd_address settings.
4753
2f079f46
PH
4754PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4755 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4756 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4757 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4758 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4759
8c841523
PH
4760PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4761
7766a4f0
PH
4762PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4763 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4764 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4765 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4766 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4767
8b417f2c
PH
4768PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4769 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4770
901f42cb
PH
4771PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4772 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4773 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4774 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4775 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4776 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4777 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4778 for failure.
4779
f9b9210e
PH
4780PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4781 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4782 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4783 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4784 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4785 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4786 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4787 "input=".
4788
54cdb463
PH
4789PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4790
cf00dad6
PH
4791PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4792 driver and ACL definitions.
4793
acb1b346
PH
4794PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4795 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4796
c5ddb310
PH
4797PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4798 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4799 understands it better than I do:
4800
4801 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4802 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4803
4804 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4805 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4806 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4807 => three warnings about OTP not working
4808 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4809
4810 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4811 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4812 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4813 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4814 for each call.)
4815 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4816 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4817
4818 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4819 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4820 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4821
31619da6
PH
4822PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4823 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4824 specified.
4825
bebaf0fc
PH
4826PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4827 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4828 "Linux".
4829
475fe28a
PH
4830PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4831 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4832 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4833
4834 warn !verify = sender
4835 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4836
4837 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4838 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4839
7e8bec7a
PH
4840PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4841
4842 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4843 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4844
4845 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4846 nomenclature these days.)
4847
e4a89c47
PH
4848PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4849 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4850
5ca2a9a1
PH
4851PH/30 In these circumstances:
4852 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4853 . First host does not offer TLS;
4854 . First host accepts first address;
4855 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4856 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4857 . Second host accepts second address.
4858 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4859 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4860 address.
7e8bec7a 4861
c688b954
PH
4862PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4863 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4864 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4865 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4866 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4867
fed77020
PH
4868PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4869 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4870
7fe1560f
PH
4871PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4872 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4873
ebb6e6d5
PH
4874PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4875 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4876 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4877
9c4e8f60
PH
4878PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4879 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4880 overlooked.
4881
4882PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4883
d7174846
PH
4884PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4885 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4886 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4887 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4888 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4889 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4890 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4891
4892 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4893 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4894 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4895 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4896 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4897
4898 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4899 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4900 routed further.
4901
cfe75fc3
PH
4902PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4903 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4904 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4905 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4906 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4907 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4908
be22d70e
PH
4909PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4910
0612b098
PH
4911PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4912 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4913 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4914 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4915 printable escape sequences.
4916
2e0c1448
PH
4917PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4918 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4919 body only.
4920
447d236c
PH
4921PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4922 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4923 are as follows:
4924
4925 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4926 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4927 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4928 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4929 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4930
4931 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4932 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4933 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4934
d20976dc
PH
4935PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4936
f656d135
PH
4937PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4938 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4939 play with."
4940
2e2a30b4
PH
4941PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4942 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4943 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4944 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4945 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4946 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4947 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4948 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4949 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4950 the log output.
4951
9176e9f0
PH
4952PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4953 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4954 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4955 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4956 "make".
4957
7982096b 4958
bbe902f0
PH
4959A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4960----------------------------------------
4961
4962Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4963changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4964needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4965in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4966that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4967release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4968from 4.43.
4969
4970I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49714.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4972those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4973historical information.
4974
4975
f7b63901 4976Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4977-----------------
4978
5fe762f6
PH
4979 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4980
139059f6 4981 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4982 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4983
7086e875
PH
4984 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4985 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4986 place.
4987
35af9f61
PH
4988 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4989 filter fails to execute.
4990
b668c215
PH
4991 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4992 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4993 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4994 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4995 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4996
a494b1e1
PH
4997 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4998
4999 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5000 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5001 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5002 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5003
c5fcb476
PH
5004 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5005 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5006 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5007 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5008 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5009
69358f02
PH
5010 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5011
5be20824
PH
501210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5013
eb2c0248
PH
501411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5015 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5016 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5017 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5018
2a3eea10
PH
501912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5020 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5021 sender verification.
5022
502313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5024 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5025
23c7ff99
PH
502614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5027
4deaf07d
PH
502815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5029 connection timeout.
5030
926e1192
PH
503116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5032 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5033
650edc6f
PH
503417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5035 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5036
2c7db3f5
PH
503718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5038 information about exactly what failed.
5039
3d235903
PH
504019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5041
7c7ad977
PH
504220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5043 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5044 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5045
981756db
PH
504621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5047 It is now set to "smtps".
5048
d4eb88df
PH
504922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5050 ignore_target_hosts.
5051
505223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5053 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5054 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5055 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5056 "[x.x.x.x]".
5057
7d468ab8
PH
505824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5059 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5060 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5061
506225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5063 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5064 wake it up if nothing else does.
5065
62c0818f
PH
506626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5067 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5068 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5069 end up negative.
5070
26034054
PH
507127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5072 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5073
af66f652
PH
507428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5075
90af77f4
PH
507629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5077 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5078 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5079 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5080 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5081 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5082 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5083 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5084
d8ef3577
PH
508530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5086 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5087 than one IP address.
5088
5cb8cbc6
PH
508931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5090 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5091 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5092 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5093
14702f5b
PH
509432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5095 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5096 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5097 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5098 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5099 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5100
063b1e99
PH
510133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5102 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5103 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5104 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5105
652e1b65
PH
510634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5107 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5108 respected.
5109
6f0c9a4f
PH
511035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5111 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5112 $sender_host_address.
5113
33397d19
PH
511436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5115 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5116 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5117 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5118 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5119 very small.
5120
7bb56e1f
PH
512137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5122
5123 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5124 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5125
ea3bc19b
PH
5126 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5127 just the host names, not the priorities.
5128
5129 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5130 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5131 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5132
ea3bc19b 5133 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5134 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5135
0bcb2a0e
PH
513638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5137 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5138 domain.
5139
2ac0e484
PH
514039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5141
4e1fde53
PH
514240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5143 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5144
de365ded
PH
514541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5146 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5147 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5148
f05da2e8
PH
514942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5150
d6453af2
PH
515143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5152
f7b63901
PH
515344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5154
515545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5156 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5157 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5158 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5159 because the tests only now provoked it.
5160
a444213a
PH
516146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5162 (this can affect the format of dates).
5163
0ec020ea
PH
516447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5165 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5166 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5167 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5168
b1206957
PH
516948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5170
517149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5172 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5173 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5174 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5175
26dd5a95
PH
517650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5177 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5178 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5179
343b2385
PH
518051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5181 autoreply.
5182
1c5466b9
PH
518352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5184 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5185 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5186 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5187 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5188 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5189 is going on).
5190
55ee9ee3
PH
519153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5192 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5193 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5194 the line.
5195
d38f8232
PH
519654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5197 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5198 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5199
5200 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5201 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5202 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5203 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5204 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5205 so I produce this patch..."
5206
3295e65b
PH
5207 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5208 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5209 is not defined.
5210
7102e136
PH
521155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5212 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5213 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5214 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5215 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5216
3ca0ba97
PH
521756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5218
c2bcbe20
PH
521957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5220 long debug lines gets shown.
5221
18ce445d
PH
522258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5223 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5224
1f5b4c3d
PH
522559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5226
5227 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5228 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5229 of $primary_hostname.
5230
b975ba52
PH
523160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5232 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5233 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5234 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5235 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5236 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5237 by change 4.50/55 above.
5238
5239 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5240 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5241 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5242 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5243 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5244 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5245 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5246
524761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5248 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5249 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5250 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5251
17ffcae7
PH
525262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5253 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5254
d95f9fdb
PH
525563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5256 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5257 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5258 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5259 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5260
86b8287f
PH
526164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5262 This has been fixed.
5263
60dc5e56
PH
526465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5265 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5266 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5267 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5268 the caching.)
5269
533244af
PH
527066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5271
a5a28604
PH
527267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5273 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5274 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5275 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5276
7e634d24
PH
527768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5278 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5279
3e11c26b
PH
528069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5281 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5282 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5283
6729cf78
PH
528470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5285 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5286 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5287 message there.
5288
00f00ca5
PH
528971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5290 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5291 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5292
c9bdd01c
PH
529372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5294 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5295 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5296 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5297
d43194df
PH
529873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5299 during host lookups.
5300
fe5b5d0b
PH
530174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5302 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5303
5304 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5305
76a2d7ba
PH
530675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5307 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5308 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5309 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5310 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5311 background.
5312
531376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5314 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5315
04f7d5b9
PH
531677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5317 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5318 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5319
bc60667e
PH
532078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5321
bb6e88ff
PH
532279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5323 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5324 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5325 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5326 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5327 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5328 process earlier.
5329
1e70f85b
PH
533080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5331 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5332 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5333 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5334 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5335
533681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5337 tables).
5338
4e01f9d6
PH
533982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5340
1ee1cef2
PH
534183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5342 "vacation" handling.
5343
6e2b4ccc
PH
534484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5345 OS variants using glibc.
5346
8e669ac1
PH
534785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5348
495ae4b0 5349
bbe902f0
PH
5350----------------------------------------------------
5351See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5352----------------------------------------------------
5353
5354
5355Exim version 4.44
5356-----------------
5357
5358 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5359 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5360 transport
5361
5362 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5363 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5364 place.
5365
5366 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5367 filter fails to execute.
5368
5369 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5370 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5371 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5372 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5373 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5374
5375 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5376 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5377 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5378 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5379
5380 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5381 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5382 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5383 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5384 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5385
5386 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5387
5388 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5389 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5390 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5391 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5392
5393 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5394 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5395 sender verification.
5396
539710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5398 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5399
540011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5401 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5402
540312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5404 ignore_target_hosts.
5405
540613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5407 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5408 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5409 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5410 "[x.x.x.x]".
5411
541214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5413 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5414 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5415
541615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5417 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5418 wake it up if nothing else does.
5419
542016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5421 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5422 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5423 end up negative.
5424
542517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5426 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5427
ea3a6f44 542818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5429
543019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5431 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5432 empty pattern.
5433
543420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5435 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5436 one IP address.
5437
ea3a6f44
NM
543821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5439 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5440 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5441 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5442 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5443 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5444
ea3a6f44
NM
544522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5446 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5447 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5448
544923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5450 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5451 $sender_host_address.
5452
545324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5454
ea3a6f44
NM
545525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5456 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5457 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5458
545926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5460 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5461
ea3a6f44
NM
546227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5463 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5464
ea3a6f44
NM
546528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5466 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5467 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5468 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5469
547029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5471 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5472 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5473
ea3a6f44
NM
547430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5475 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5476 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5477 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5478
ea3a6f44
NM
547931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5480 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5481 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5482
ea3a6f44
NM
548331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5484 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5485
ea3a6f44
NM
548632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5487 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5488 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5489 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5490 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5491 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5492 is going on).
bbe902f0 5493
ea3a6f44
NM
549433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5495 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5496 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5497 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5498 CAN-2005-0021
5499
ea3a6f44
NM
550034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5501 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5502 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5503 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5504 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5505 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5506 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5507
5508 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5509 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5510 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5511 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5512 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5513 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5514 CAN-2005-0021
5515
ea3a6f44
NM
551635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5517 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5518 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5519 CAN-2005-0022
5520
ea3a6f44
NM
552136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5522 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5523 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5524 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5525 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5526
ea3a6f44
NM
552737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5528 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5529 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5530 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5531 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5532
ea3a6f44
NM
553338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5534 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5535 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5536 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5537 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5538
5539
495ae4b0
PH
5540Exim version 4.43
5541-----------------
5542
5543 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5544 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5545 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5546 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5547 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5548 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5549 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5550
5551 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5552 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5553 the delivery.
5554
5555 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5556
5557 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5558
5559 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5560 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5561 to local_scan().
5562
5563 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5564 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5565 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5566 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5567 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5568
5569 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5570 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5571
5572 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5573
5574 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5575
557610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5577 header_sender only.
5578
557911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5580 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5581
558212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5583 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5584 affecting debugging statements).
5585
558613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5587
558814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5589 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5590 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5591 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5592 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5593 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5594 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5595 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5596 after the received time, and all would be well.
5597
559815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5599 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5600 condition in an expansion string.
5601
560216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5603
560417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5605 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5606 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5607 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5608 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5609 job under whatever limits there are.
5610
561118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5612
561319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5614 space).
5615
561620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5617 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5618 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5619 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5620 return path is set.
5621
562221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5623 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5624 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5625 binary data in such strings.
5626
562722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5628
562923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5630 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5631 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5632 failure, which is pointless.
5633
563424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5635
563625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5637
563826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5639 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5640 Sender: header lines.
5641
564227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5643 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5644 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5645
564628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5647 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5648 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5649 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5650 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5651 happens.
5652
565329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5654 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5655 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5656 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5657 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5658
565930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5660 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5661 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5662 1024.
5663
566431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5665 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5666
566732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5668 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5669
567033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5671
567232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5673
567433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5675
567634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5677 syntax error.
5678
567935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5680
568136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5682
568337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5684 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5685 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5686 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5687
568838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5689 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5690
5691
5692Exim version 4.42
5693-----------------
5694
5695 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5696 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5697 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5698 it was not quoted.
5699 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5700 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5701 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5702 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5703 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5704 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5705
5706 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5707 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5708 verification failure".
5709
5710 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5711 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5712 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5713 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5714
5715 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5716 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5717 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5718 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5719 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5720 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5721 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5722 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5723 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5724 treated as a timeout.
5725
5726 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5727 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5728 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5729 not set for Exim filters).
5730
5731 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5732 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5733 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5734
5735 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5736
5737 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5738 try to make them clearer.
5739
5740 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5741 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5742
5743 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5744
5745 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5746
574710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5748 only the Cygwin environment.
5749
575011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5751 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5752 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5753 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5754 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5755
575612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5757 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5758 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5759 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5760 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5761 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5762 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5763
576413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5765 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5766
576714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5768
5769 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5770 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5771 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5772
5773 To: susanne@some.where
5774
5775 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5776 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5777 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5778 of addresses in From: header lines).
5779
5780 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5781 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5782 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5783
5784 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5785 treated as non-personal.
5786
5787 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5788 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5789
579015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5791
579216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5793
579417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5795 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5796 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5797
579818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5799 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5800
580119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5802 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5803 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5804 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5805 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5806 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5807
580820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5809 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5810 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5811 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5812 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5813 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5814 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5815 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5816
5817 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5818
581921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5820 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5821
582222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5823 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5824 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5825
582623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5827 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5828
582924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5830 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5831 rather than long int.
5832
583325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5834
583526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5836
5837
5838Exim version 4.41
5839-----------------
5840
5841 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5842 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5843 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5844 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5845 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5846 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5847
5848
5849Exim version 4.40
5850-----------------
5851
5852 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5853 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5854
5855 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5856 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5857 socklen_t is defined.
5858
5859 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5860 always exist.
5861
5862 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5863 configured.
5864
5865 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5866 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5867 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5868 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5869 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5870
5871 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5872 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5873 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5874 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5875
5876 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5877 of flapping under certain conditions.
5878
5879 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5880 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5881 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5882
5883 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5884
588510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5886
588711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5888 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5889 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5890 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5891
589212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5893 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5894 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5895 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5896 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5897 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5898 preserved with the message after it was received.
5899
590013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5901 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5902 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5903 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5904 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5905 test suite worked just fine.
5906
590714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5908 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5909 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5910
591115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5912 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5913 string.
5914
591516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5916 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5917 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5918 does not fully solve it.
5919
592017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5921 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5922 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5923 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5924 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5925
592618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5927 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5928 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5929
593019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5931 string, for example:
5932
5933 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5934
5935 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5936 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5937 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5938 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5939 the routers could not see them.
5940
594120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5942 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5943
594421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5945 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5946 output).
5947
594822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5949 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5950 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5951 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5952 that needed quoting.
5953
595423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5955 was not being matched caselessly.
5956
595724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5958 backslashes.
5959
596025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5961 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5962 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5963 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5964 when use_sender is false.
5965
596626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5967
596827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5969
597028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5971
597229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5973 the configuration file.
5974
597530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5976 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5977
597831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5979
598032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5981 bytes in the message body.
5982
598333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5984 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5985 delivery.
5986
598734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5988
598935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5990
599136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5992 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5993 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5994 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5995 another IP address.
5996
5997
5998Exim version 4.34
5999-----------------
6000
6001 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6002 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6003
6004 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6005 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6006 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6007 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6008 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6009
6010 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6011 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6012
6013 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6014 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6015 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6016
6017 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6018 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6019 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6020
6021 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6022 for routers.
6023
6024 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6025 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6026 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6027 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6028 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6029 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6030 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6031
6032
6033Exim version 4.33
6034-----------------
6035
6036 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6037 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6038 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6039 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6040 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6041 default (and expected) setting.
6042
6043 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6044 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6045 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6046 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6047
6048 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6049 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6050
6051 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6052 in domain lists.
6053
6054 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6055 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6056 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6057 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6058 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6059 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6060
6061 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6062 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6063 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6064
6065 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6066 part (NOT match_host).
6067
6068 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6069
6070 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6071 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6072 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6073 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6074 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6075 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6076 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6077 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6078 the same named file.
6079
608010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6081 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6082 when Exim is built.
6083
608411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6085 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6086 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6087 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6088 a host name.
6089
609012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6091 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6092 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6093
609413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6095
609614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6097
609815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6099
610016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6101 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6102
610317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6104 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6105 before starting the TLS session.
6106
610718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6108
610919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6110 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6111
611220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6113 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6114 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6115 colon in the middle).
6116
6117
6118Exim version 4.32
6119-----------------
6120
6121 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6122 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6123 multiple configurations are in use.
6124
6125 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6126 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6127 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6128 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6129 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6130 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6131
6132 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6133 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6134
6135 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6136 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6137 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6138
6139 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6140 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6141 occurs.
6142
6143 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6144 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6145
6146 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6147
6148 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6149 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6150
6151 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6152
6153 -prval:sval
6154
6155 is equivalent to
6156
6157 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6158
6159 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6160 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6161 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6162 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6163 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6164
616510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6166 Exim's behaviour:
6167
6168 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6169 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6170 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6171 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6172 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6173 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6174
6175 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6176 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6177 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6178 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6179 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6180 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6181 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6182 string.
6183
6184 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6185 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6186 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6187 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6188 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6189
619011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6191
619212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6193 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6194 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6195
619613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6197
619814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6199 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6200 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6201 information.
6202
620315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6204 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6205
620616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6207 Three changes have been made:
6208
6209 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6210 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6211 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6212 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6213 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6214
6215 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6216 been restored.
6217
6218 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6219 the modified behaviour.
6220
6221
6222Exim version 4.31
6223-----------------
6224
6225 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6226 Larry Rosenman.
6227
6228 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6229 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6230
6231 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6232 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6233 try to track down a specific problem.
6234
6235 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6236 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6237 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6238
6239 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6240 warning.
6241
6242 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6243 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6244 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6245 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6246 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6247 some earlier ones do not.
6248
6249 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6250
6251 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6252 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6253 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6254 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6255 address literals are enabled, of course).
6256
6257 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6258
625910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6260 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6261 by a command such as
6262
6263 exim -f "" ...
6264
6265 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6266
626711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6268
626912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6270 remained set. It is now erased.
6271
627213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6273 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6274
627514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6276 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6277 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6278 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6279 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6280 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6281 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6282 appropriate error code.
6283
628415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6285 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6286 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6287 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6288 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6289 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6290
629116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6292 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6293 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6294
629517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6296 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6297 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6298 terminate the header.
6299
630018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6301 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6302 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6303
630419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6305 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6306 (4.30/29). In particular:
6307
6308 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6309 imposed.
6310
6311 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6312 to write a maildirsize file.
6313
6314 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6315 the transport, the new value overrides.
6316
6317 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6318 count.
6319
632020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6321 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6322 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6323 space or a tab.
6324
632521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6326 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6327 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6328 the fallback hosts.
6329
633022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6331 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6332 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6333
633423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6335 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6336 using a union.
6337
633824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6339 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6340 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6341
634225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6343
634426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6345
634627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6347
634828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6349 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6350 become corrupted.
6351
635229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6353 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6354 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6355 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6356 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6357 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6358 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6359 too great.
6360
636130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6362 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6363 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6364 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6365 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6366 incorrectly.
6367
636831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6369 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6370 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6371 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6372 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6373 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6374 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6375 cached value only when the same options are set.
6376
637732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6378
637933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6380 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6381 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6382 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6383 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6384
638534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6386 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6387 it is clearly obsolete.
6388
638935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6390 transport.
6391
639236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6393 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6394 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6395 times.
6396
639737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6398 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6399 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6400 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6401 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6402
640338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6404 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6405 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6406 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6407
640839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6409
6410 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6411
6412 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6413 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6414 2^31.
6415
641640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6417 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6418 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6419 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6420 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6421 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6422 $localpart_data.
6423
642441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6425 with the -f command-line option.
6426
642742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6428 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6429 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6430 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6431 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6432 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6433
643443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6435 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6436 line.
6437
643844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6439 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6440 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6441 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6442 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6443 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6444 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6445 buffer is too small.
6446
644745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6448 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6449
645046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6451 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6452 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6453 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6454 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6455 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6456 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6457 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6458 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6459
646047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6461 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6462 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6463
646448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6465 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6466 ACL").
6467
646849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6469 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6470 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6471 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6472 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6473
647450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6475 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6476 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6477 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6478 is set.
6479
648051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6481
648252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6483
648453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6485 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6486
648754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6488 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6489 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6490
649155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6492 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6493 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6494 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6495 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6496
649756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6498 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6499 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6500 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6501 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6502 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6503 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6504
650557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6506 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6507 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6508 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6509 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6510 the test of how many are available.
6511
651258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6513 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6514 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6515 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6516 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6517 new message is started.
6518
651959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6520 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6521
652260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6523 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6524
652561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6526 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6527 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6528 is no long logged.
6529
653062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6531 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6532 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6533 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6534 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6535 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6536 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6537
653863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6539 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6540 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6541 interpreted as octal.
6542
654364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6544 setting.
6545
654665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6547 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6548 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6549 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6550 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6551 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6552
655366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6554 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6555 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6556 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6557
6558 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6559 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6560 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6561 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6562
6563 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6564 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6565 is a bug fix.
6566
6567 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6568 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6569
657067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6571
657268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6573 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6574 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6575 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6576
657769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6578 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6579 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6580 supplied", which is not helpful.
6581
658270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6583 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6584 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6585
658671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6587 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6588 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6589 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6590 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6591 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6592 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6593 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6594
659572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6596 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6597 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6598 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6599 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6600
660173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6602 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6603 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6604 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6605 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
495ae4b0
PH
6606 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6607
660874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6609 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6610 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6611
661275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6613
661476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6615 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6616 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6617 variables.
6618
661977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6620
662178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6622 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6623 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6624 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6625 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6626 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6627 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6628 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6629
663079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6631 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6632 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6633 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6634 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6635
663680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6637 Haardt.
6638
663981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6640 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6641 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6642 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6643 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6644 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6645 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6646 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6647 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6648
6649
6650Exim version 4.30
6651-----------------
6652
6653 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6654 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6655 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6656
6657 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6658 fixed.
6659
6660 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6661 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6662 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6663
6664 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6665 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6666 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6667 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6668 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6669 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
495ae4b0
PH
6670
6671 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6672 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6673 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6674 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6675 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6676 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6677 the Exim test suite.
6678
6679 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6680 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6681 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6682 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6683
6684 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6685 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6686 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6687 specify it in this variable.
6688
6689 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6690 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6691 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6692 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6693
6694 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6695 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6696 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6697 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6698
6699 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6700 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6701 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6702 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6703 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6704
6705 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6706
670710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6708 they are logged.
6709
671011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6711 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6712 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6713 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6714 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6715
671612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6717 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6718
671913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6720 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6721 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
495ae4b0
PH
6722 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6723 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6724
672514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6726 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6727
672815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6729 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6730 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6731
673216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6733 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6734
673517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6736 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6737
673818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6739 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6740 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6741
674219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6743 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6744
674520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6746 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6747 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6748 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6749
675021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6751
675222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6753 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6754 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6755 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6756
675723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6758
675924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6760 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6761
676225. Added .include_if_exists.
6763
676426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6765 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6766 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6767 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6768 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6769 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6770
677127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6772
677328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6774 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6775 this.
6776
677729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6778
677930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6780 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6781
6782 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6783 550 Sender verify failed
6784
6785 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6786 the final line of the response.
6787
678831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6789 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6790 all other user lookups.
6791
679232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6793 delivery time.
6794
679533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6796 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6797 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6798 result into an int without checking.
6799
680034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6801 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6802 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6803
680435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6805 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6806 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6807 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6808
680936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6810 correctly.
6811
681237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6813 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6814
681538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6816 to the empty sender.
6817
681839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6819 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6820 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6821 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6822 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6823 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6824 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6825 panic log.
6826
682740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6828 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6829 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6830 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6831 used.
6832
683341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6834 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6835
683642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6837 timestamps.
6838
683943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6840 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6841
684244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6843
684445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6845 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6846 logs.
6847
684846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6849 as soon as it is encountered.
6850
685147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6852
685348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6854 rewritten to "<>".
6855
685649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6857 recognizes a tab character.
6858
685950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6860 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6861 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6862 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6863
686451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6865
686652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6867 crash.
6868
686953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6870
687154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6872
687355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6874 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6875 2822.
6876
687756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6878 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6879 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6880 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6881 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6882
688357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6884 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6885
688658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6887 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6888 list (.included file names were always shown).
6889
689059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6891 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6892 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6893 root at that time.
6894
689560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6896 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6897
689861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6899
690062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6901
690263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6903
690464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6905 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6906 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6907 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6908 failures to open the logs.
6909
691065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6911 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6912 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6913 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6914 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6915 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6916 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6917
6918
6919Exim version 4.24
6920-----------------
6921
6922 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6923 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6924 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6925 change 4.23/1.
6926
6927 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6928 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6929 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6930
6931 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6932 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6933 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6934
6935 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6936 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6937 causing some misleading effects.
6938
6939 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6940 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6941 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6942
6943 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6944 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6945 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6946 queue-runner function directly.
6947
6948
6949Exim version 4.23
6950-----------------
6951
6952 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6953 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6954
6955 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6956 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6957 was always written to the default place.
6958
6959 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6960 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6961 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6962
6963 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6964
6965 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6966
6967 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6968 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6969 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6970
6971 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6972 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6973 must start.
6974
6975 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6976 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6977 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6978
6979 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6980 command line option is disabled.
6981
6982 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6983 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6984
6985 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6986
6987 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6988
6989 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6990 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6991
699210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6993
699411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6995 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6996 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6997 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6998 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6999 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7000
700112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7002 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7003 timeout.
7004
700513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7006 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7007
700814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7009 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7010
701115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7012 received was valid base64.
7013
701416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7015 name of the variable that was being set.
7016
701717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7018
701918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7020 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7021 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7022 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7023 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7024 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7025
702619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7027
702820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7029 nor realm was specified.
7030
703121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7032 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7033 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7034 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7035
703622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7037 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7038 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7039
704023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7041 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7042 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7043
704424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7045 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7046 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7047 some systems use these upper case variants.
7048
704925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7050 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7051 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7052 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7053
705426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7055
705627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7057 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7058
705928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7060 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7061 expansion variable.
7062
706329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7064
706530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7066 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7067 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7068 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7069
707031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7071 using it.
7072
707332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7074 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7075 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7076
707733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7078 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7079
708034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7081 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7082 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7083 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7084
708535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7086 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7087 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7088
708936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7090
709137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7092 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7093 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7094 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7095 aborted.
7096
709738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7098 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7099 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7100
710139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7102
710340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7104 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7105
710641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7107 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7108
710942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7110 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7111 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7112 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7113 when emails are that large.
7114
7115
7116
7117Exim version 4.22
7118-----------------
7119
7120 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7121 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7122
7123 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7124 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7125 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7126
7127 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7128 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7129 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7130
7131 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7132 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7133 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7134 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7135 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7136
7137 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7138 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7139 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7140 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7141 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7142 ever.
7143
7144 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7145 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7146 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7147 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7148 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7149 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7150 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7151 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7152 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7153 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7154 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7155 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7156 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7157 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7158
7159 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7160 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7161 parameterised it.
7162
7163 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7164 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7165 error should be diagnosed.
7166
7167 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7168 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7169 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7170 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7171 appeared instead of "NULL".
7172
717310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7174 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7175 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7176 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7177 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7178 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7179 proceeds).
7180
7181 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7182 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7183 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7184
7185
7186Exim version 4.21
7187-----------------
7188
7189 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7190 or receiver verification errors.
7191
7192 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7193 name.
7194
7195 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7196 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7197 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7198 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7199
7200 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7201 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7202 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7203 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7204 shouldn't happen again.
7205
7206 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7207 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7208 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7209
7210 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7211 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7212
7213 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7214
7215 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7216 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7217
7218 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7219 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7220 RFC.
7221
722210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7223 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7224 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7225
722611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7227 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7228 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7229 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7230
723112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7232 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7233 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7234 to define what should happen).
7235
723613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7237 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7238 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7239
724014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7241
724215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7243
724416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7245 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7246
4c04137d 724717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7248 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7249 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7250 structure in all cases.
7251
7252 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7253 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7254 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7255 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7256
725718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7258 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7259 domain name.
7260
726119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7262 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7263
726420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7265 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7266
726721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7268 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7269 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7270
727122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7272 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7273 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7274
727523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7276 the book and for uniformity.
7277
727824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7279
728025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7281 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7282 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7283 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7284 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7285 non-existent command as the problem.
7286
728726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7288 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7289 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7290
729127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7292
729328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7294 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7295 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7296
729729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7298 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7299 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7300 timestamps using strftime().
7301
730230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7303 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7304
730532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7306 transport-time rewrites.
7307
730833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7309 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7310 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7311 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7312
731334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7314 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7315
731635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7317 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7318 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7319 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7320 comma and a space.
7321
732236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7323 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7324 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7325 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7326 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7327 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7328 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7329
733037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7331 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7332 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7333 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7334 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7335
733638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7337 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7338 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7339 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7340 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7341 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7342 remaining text gets split now.
7343
734439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7345 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7346 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7347 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7348
734940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7350 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7351 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7352 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7353 $return_path.
7354
735541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7356 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7357 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7358 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7359 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7360 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7361 passed through if needed.
7362
736342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7364 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7365 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7366 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7367 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7368 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7369
737043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7371 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7372 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7373 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7374 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7375
737644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7377 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7378 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7379 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7380 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7381
738245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7383 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7384 noticed.
7385
738646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7387 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7388 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7389 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7390 mayhem of various kinds.
7391
739247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7393 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7394 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7395 the right test for positive values.
7396
739748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7398 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7399 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7400 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7401 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7402 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7403 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7404 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7405 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7406 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7407 envelope.
7408
740949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7410 module.
7411
741250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7413 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7414 forbidding it.
7415
741651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7417 the existing equality matching.
7418
741952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7420 dealing with inode numbers.
7421
742253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7423 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7424 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7425
742654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7427 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7428 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7429 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7430 local_scan().
7431
743255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7433 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7434 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7435 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7436 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7437 relay addresses has also been removed.
7438
743956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7440
744157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7442 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7443 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7444
744558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7446 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7447 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7448 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7449 processing applies to CR:
7450
7451 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7452 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7453
7454 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7455 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7456 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7457 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7458
745959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7460 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7461 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7462
746360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7464 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7465 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7466 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7467 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7468 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7469 arisen.
7470
747161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7472 program routers.
7473
747462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7475 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7476 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7477 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7478 adds:
7479
7480 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7481
7482 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7483
7484 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7485
748663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7487 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7488 not considered personal.
7489
749064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7491
749265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7493
749466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7495
749667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7497 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7498 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7499 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7500 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7501 header lines, and spool format errors.
7502
750368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7504 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7505 for more flexibility.
7506
750769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7508 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7509 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7510
751170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7512 Sabourenkov.
7513
751471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7515 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7516 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7517 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7518 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7519 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7520 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7521 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7522 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7523
752472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7525 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7526 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7527 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7528 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7529 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7530 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7531
753273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7533 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7534 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7535
753674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7537 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7538 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7539 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7540 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7541 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7542 instead of killing the process with assert().
7543
754475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7545 than Unicode encoding.
7546
754776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7548 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7549 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7550 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7551
755277. Added process_log_path.
7553
755478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7555 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7556
755779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7558 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7559
756080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7561 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7562 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7563
756481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7565 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7566 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7567 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7568 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7569 were applied:
7570
7571 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7572 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7573 as invalid.
7574
757582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7576 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7577 they will be used during message reception.
7578
7579
7580Exim version 4.20
7581-----------------
7582
7583The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7584
7585****