ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS update, covering a few years
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
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19PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
20 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
21 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
22
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23NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
24
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25NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
26 improved.
27
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28NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
29
c1e794ba 30PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 31
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32PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
33
34PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
35 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
36
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37PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
38 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
39
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40PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
41 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
42
f1e05cc7 43PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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44 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
45 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 46
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47PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
48
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49PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
50 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
51
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52PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
53
c45dd180 54PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 55
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56PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
57 non-compliant senders.
58 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
59
eae0036b 60NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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61 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
62 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
63
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64PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
65 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
66 in spool file corruption.
67
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68PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
69 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
70 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
71 "Got SSL error 2".
72
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73TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
74 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
75 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
76
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77JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
78 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
79
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80JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
81
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82PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
83 diagnostics.
84 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
85
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86PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
87 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
88 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
89
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90PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
91 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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92 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
93 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 94
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95PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
96 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
97
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98PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
99 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
100 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
101 resolver implementation change.
102
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103PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
104 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
105
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106PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
107
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108PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
109
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110PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
111 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
112
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113PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
114 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
115
9e45c72b 116JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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117 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
118
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119PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
120 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
121 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
122 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 123 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 124
53947857 125PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 126
eae0036b 127PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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128 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
129 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 130
9e45c72b 131JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 132
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133PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
134 read-only, out of scope).
135 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
136
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137PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
138 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
139 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
140 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
141
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142PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
143
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144PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
145 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
146 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
147 real issues in debug logging.
148
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149PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
150 assignment on my part. Fixed.
151
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152PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
153 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
154 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
155
156PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
157 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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158 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
159 problems.
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161PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
162 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
163
57eb9e91 164PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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165 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
166 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
167 needs to override this, it can.
168
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169PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
170 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
171 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
172
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173PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
174 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
175 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
176 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
177
3ecab157 178PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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181Exim version 4.77
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183
184PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
185 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
186
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187TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
188
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189TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
190 whitespace trailer
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192TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
193 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
194
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195TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
196 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
197 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
198
199 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
200 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
201 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
202 not safe for signals.
203
204 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
205 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
206 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
207 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
208 exiwhat.
209
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210TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
211
212 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
213 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
214 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
215 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
216 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
217
218 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
219 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
220 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
221 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
222 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
223 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
224
225 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
226 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
227 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
228 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
229
230 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
231 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
232 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
233 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
234
235 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
236 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
237 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
238 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
239 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
240 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
241 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
242 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
243 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
244
245 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
246 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
247 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
248 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
249
250 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
251 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
252 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
253 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
254 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
255 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
256 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
257 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
258 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
259 details in the main documentation.
260
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261TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
262
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263TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
264
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265TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
266 repository when doing development or release builds.
267
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268PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
269 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 270
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271PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
272 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
273 Bugzilla 97.
274
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275PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
276
9e949f00 277PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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278 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
279
280PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
281 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 282
555ae6af 283PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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284 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
285
286PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
287 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 288
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289PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
290 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
291
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292PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
293 Bugzilla 1156.
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294 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
295 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 296
d6cc7c78 297PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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298 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
299 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
300
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301PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
302
3399bb60 303PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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304
305PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
306 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
307
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309Exim version 4.76
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311
312PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
313
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314PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
315 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
316
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317PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
318
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319PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
320
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321PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
322 Bugzilla 1098.
323
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324PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
325 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 326
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327TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
328 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
329
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330PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
331 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
332
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333PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
334 Bugzilla 1104.
335
c8d52a00 336TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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337 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
338
339TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
340 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
341 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
342 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
343
344PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
345 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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348Exim version 4.75
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350
4c9ef03a 351NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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352 Bugzilla 1073
353
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354TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
355 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
356 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
357
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358TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
359 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
360
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361PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
362 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
363 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
364
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365PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
366 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
367
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368PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
369 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
370
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371NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
372 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
373
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374NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
375 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
376
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377PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
378 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 379
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380NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
381 Fixes bug 943.
382
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383PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
384 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
385
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386PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
387 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
388
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389PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
390 SQL string expansion failure details.
391 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
392
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393PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
394 Patch from Simon Arlott.
395
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396PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
397 extern declarations in function scope.
398 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
399
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400PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
401 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
402 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
403 a kernel bug).
404
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405PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
406 Patch from Mark Zealey.
407
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408PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
409 Patch from Mark Zealey.
410
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411PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
412 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
413
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414PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
415 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
416
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417NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
418 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
419 Dennis Davis.
420
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421PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
422
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423PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
424
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425NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
426 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 427
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428TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
429 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
430
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434
435TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
436 consequences so log it to the panic log.
437
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438TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
439 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
440
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441TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
442
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443DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
444 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
445 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
446
447PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
448 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
449 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
450
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451PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
452 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
453 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
454 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
455
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456PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
457 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
458 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
459 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
460
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461PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
462 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
463 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
464 arbitrary files.
465
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466PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
467 (Wolfgang Breyha)
468
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469PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
470 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
471 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
472 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
473 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
474
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478
479PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
480 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
481 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
482
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483PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
484 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
485
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486JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
487
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488PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
489
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490PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
491
ec5a0394 492PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 493
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494PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
495
453a6645 496PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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497 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
498 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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499 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
500
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501PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
502 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
503 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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504 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
505 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 506
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507PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
508
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509PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
510
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511PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
512
4b2241d2
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513PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
514
10385c15
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515PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
516
dbc4b90d
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517PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
518
532be449
PP
519PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
520
6a8de854 521PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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522 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
523 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 524
5dc43717
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525JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
526
527JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
528 "exim" to be used
55c75993 529
3346ab01
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530PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
531 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
532
491fab4c
PP
533PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
534 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
535 Notification from John Horne.
536
13eb9497
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537PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
538 compatible.
539
540PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
541 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
542 it normally works.
543
7f36d675
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544DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
545 access.
546
c1d94452
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547DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
548 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
549 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
550
e2f5dc15
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551DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
552 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
553 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
554 configuration file.
555
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556DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
557 option (effectively making it always true).
558
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559DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
560 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
561
fa32850b
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562DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
563 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
564
79d4bc3d
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565PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
566 run-time user, instead of root.
567
43236f35 568PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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569 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
570
fb08281f
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571DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
572 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
573 arguments.
3346ab01 574
74935b98
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575DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
576 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
577 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
578
90b6341f
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579DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
580
57730b52
ML
581NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
582
66581d1e 583
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584Exim version 4.72
585-----------------
586
453a6645
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587JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
588 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
589 typos
465e92cf 590
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591JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
592 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
593 (Finput)
edae0343 594
9bd3e22c
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595NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
596 Patch from Alain Williams
597
bb576ff7
NM
598NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
599
5a1a5845
NM
600NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
601 Patch from Andreas Metzler
602
981a9fad
NM
603NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
604 Patch from Kirill Miazine
605
7fc497ee
NM
606NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
607
1a41defa
JJ
608JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
609
a466095c 610NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 611 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 612
94a6bd0b
NM
613TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
614
615TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
616
617MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
618 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
619 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
620
c1b141a8
NM
621NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
622 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 623
b26eacf1 624NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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625 Patch by Simon Arlott
626
179c5980 627PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 628 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 629
9bd3e22c 630
7c6d71af
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631Exim version 4.71
632-----------------
633
7d9f747b 634TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 635
f013fb92
NM
636NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
637
0eb8eedd
NM
638NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
639
663ee6d9
NM
640NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
641
177ebd9b
NM
642NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
643
7c6d71af 644
210f147e
NM
645Exim version 4.70
646-----------------
647
cdd3bb85 648TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 649 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
650
651TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
652 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 653 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
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654
655TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
656 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 657 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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658
659TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
660 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
661
210f147e
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662NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
663 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
664 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
665 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
666
deafd5b3
NM
667NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
668 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 669 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 670
089793a4
TF
671TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
672
5f16ca82
TF
673TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
674
dae9d94e 675NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 676 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 677
7d9f747b 678NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 679
06864c44
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680TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
681 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
682 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
683 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
684
65a7d8c3 685NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 686 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 687
23510047 688TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 689
7d9f747b 690NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 691
7d8eec3a 692NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 693 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 694
89dec7b6
TF
695TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
696 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 697
a99de90c
TF
698TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
699 that they are available at delivery time.
700
e2803e40
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701TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
702
7199e1ee
TF
703TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
704 incoming_port log selectors.
705
e276e04b
TF
706TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
707 setting expands to an empty string.
708
ce552449 709NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 710 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 711
e765a0f1 712NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 713 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 714
4f054c63 715NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 716 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 717
7d9f747b
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718NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
719 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 720
7d9f747b
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721NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
722 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 723
b52bc06e 724NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 725 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 726
447de4b0
NM
727NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
728
4c69d561 729NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 730 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 731
d5c39246 732NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 733 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 734
0b23848a
TK
735TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
736
8f3414a1 737NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 738 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 739
fb6f955d
NM
740NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
741
742NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 743
7d9f747b
PP
744NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
745 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 746
7d9f747b
PP
747NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
748 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 749
7d9f747b
PP
750NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
751 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 752
7d9f747b
PP
753NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
754 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 755
7d9f747b
PP
756NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
757 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 758
7d9f747b
PP
759NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
760 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 761
7d9f747b
PP
762NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
763 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 764
7d9f747b 765NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 766 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 767
7d9f747b 768NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 769
7d9f747b
PP
770NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
771 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 772
7d9f747b 773NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 774
7d9f747b 775NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 776
7d9f747b 777NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 778
7d9f747b 779NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 780
17792b53 781NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 782 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 783
7d9f747b
PP
784NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
785 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 786
91576cec 787NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 788 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 789
7d9f747b
PP
790NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
791 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 792
7d9f747b 793NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 794
7d9f747b 795NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 796
7d9f747b 797NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 798
7d9f747b 799NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 800
deafd5b3 801
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803-----------------
804
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805TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
806 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
807 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
808
809 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
810 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
811 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
812 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
813 build errors in sieve.c.
814
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815NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
816 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
817 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
818
f13cddcb
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819SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
820
7d9f747b 821NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 822
7d9f747b 823NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 824
7d9f747b 825NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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NM
826
827
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828Exim version 4.68
829-----------------
830
831PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
832
6a3bceb1
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833PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
834 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
835 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
836 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
837 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
838 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
839 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
840 for iplsearch lookups.
841
842 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
843 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
844 previously such lookups could never work.
845
846 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
847 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
848 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
849
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850TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
851 version.
852
0806a9c5
MH
853MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
854 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
855 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
856 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
857 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
858 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
859
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860TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
861 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
862
0f2cbd1b
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863MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
864 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
865 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
866 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
867 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
868 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
869
2b85bce7
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870PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
871 local_scan API.
872
93655c46
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873PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
874
6c512171
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875PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
876 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
877 encrypted.
878
879PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
880 by clients under certain conditions.
881
aa6dc513
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882PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
883 "_responses" off the end of the name.
884
a96603a0
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885PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
886
8f240103
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887PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
888 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
889
890PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
891
d677b2f2
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892PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
893
d52120f2
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894PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
895
64f2600a
PH
896PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
897 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
898
8669f003
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899PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
900
a4dc33a8
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901PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
902 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
903
d6a60c0f
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904PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
905
8f128379
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906PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
907
8932dffe
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908PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
909 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
910 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
911 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 912
ddea74fa 913PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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914 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
915 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
916
ddea74fa 917PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
918 and InterBase are left for another time.)
919
ddea74fa
PH
920PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
921
ce9f225c
PH
922PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
923
19897d52
PH
924PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
925
bc64a74d
PH
926PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
927 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
928 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
929
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931Exim version 4.67
932-----------------
933
22ad45c9
MH
934MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
935 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
936 Jan Srzednicki.
937
b4ed4da0
PH
938PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
939 issue a MAIL command.
940
431b7361
PH
941PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
942
943 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
944
945 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
946 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
947 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
948 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
949 item. This has been fixed.
950
951PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
952 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
953
83da1223
PH
954PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
955 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
956
54fc8428
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957PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
958 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
959 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
960
34c5e8dd
SC
961SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
962
bbe15da8
PH
963PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
964 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
965 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
966 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
967 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
968
0e8a9471
MH
969MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
970 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
971 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
972
f0872424
PH
973PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
974 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
975 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
976 the server_setid option was incorrect.
977
b01dd148
PH
978PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
979
6bf342e1
PH
980PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
981
273f34d0
PH
982PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
983 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
984 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
985 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
986 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
987
cf8b11a5
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988PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
989
41c7c167
PH
990PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
991 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
992 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
993 values).
994
9c57cbc0
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995PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
996
f3f065bb
PH
997PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
998
047bdd8c
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999PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1000
0ce9abe6
PH
1001PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1002
0e22dfd1
PH
1003PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1004
4c590bd1
PH
1005PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1006 no_callout_flush is set.
1007
09945f1e
PH
1008PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1009 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1010 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1011 fixed.
1012
c51b8e75
PH
1013PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1014
e28326d8
PH
1015PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1016 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1017 other ACL rejections are.
1018
75b1493f
PH
1019PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1020 with slight modification.
1021
7c5214ec
PH
1022PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1023 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1024
4311097e
PH
1025PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1026 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1027 connection.
1028
29f89cad
PH
1029PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1030 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1031
5e687460
SC
1032SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1033
c3611384
PH
1034PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1035 expansion side effects.
1036
5a11a7b4
PH
1037PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1038 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1039 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1040 be the same.
1041
0e20aff9
MH
1042MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1043 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1044 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1045
ca86f471
PH
1046PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1047 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1048 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1049 were accidentally chopped off.
1050
a14e5636
PH
1051PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1052 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1053 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1054 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1055 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1056 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1057 pipelining has not been advertised.
1058
ec95d1a6
PH
1059PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1060
42855d71
PH
1061PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1062 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1063 This has been fixed.
1064
57c2c631
PH
1065PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1066 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1067 reported on Solaris.
1068
58c01c94
PH
1069PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1070 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1071 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1072 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1073 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1074 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1075 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1076
dee5a20a
PH
1077PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1078 cpus.
1079
d2ee6114
PH
1080PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1081
b2d5182b
PH
1082PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1083
79749a79
PH
1084PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1085 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1086 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1087 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1088 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1089 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1090
c456d9bb
PH
1091PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1092 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1093 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1094 host_all_ignored option.
1095
cd9868ec
PH
1096PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1097 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1098 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1099 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1100 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1101 is what is supposed to happen).
1102
ebeaf996
PH
1103PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1104 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1105 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1106 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1107 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1108 uses the Exim user.
1109
2679d413
PH
1110PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1111 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1112 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1113 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1114 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1115 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1116 users.
1117
84024b72
PH
1118PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1119
8005d38e
SC
1120SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1121 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1122 (Jez Hancock).
1123 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1124 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1125
3298c6c6
SC
1126SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1127
a43a27c5
PH
1128PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1129
58eb016e 1130PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1131 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1132 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1133 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1134 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1135 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1136 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1137 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1138 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1139 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1140 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1141
b43a74ea
PH
1142PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1143 advertised in response to EHLO.
1144
b4ed4da0 1145
5dd1517f
PH
1146Exim version 4.66
1147-----------------
1148
1149PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1150 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1151
1152 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1153 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1154
1155 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1156 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1157 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1158
1159 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1160 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1161 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1162 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1163 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1164
1165
93cfa765
TK
1166Exim version 4.65
1167-----------------
1168
1169TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1170 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1171 versions. (#438)
1172
d6066548
MH
1173MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1174 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1175 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1176
4362ff0d
PH
1177PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1178 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1179 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1180 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1181 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1182 rather than extend the field.
1183
93cfa765 1184
944e9e9c
TF
1185Exim version 4.64
1186-----------------
aa41d2de 1187
21d74bd9
TK
1188TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1189 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1190 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1191 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1192 these files.
1193
1194TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1195 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1196 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1197
1198TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1199 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1200 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1201
1202TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1203 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1204 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1205 in the field name.
1206
2b1c6e3a
PH
1207PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1208 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1209 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1210 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1211 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1212 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1213 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1214 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1215 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1216 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1217 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1218
1f872c80
PH
1219PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1220 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1221
1222PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1223 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1224 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1225 ignores EPIPE as well.
1226
d203e649
PH
1227PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1228 (quoted-printable decoding).
1229
cc2ed8f7 1230PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1231 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1232
ddfcd446
PH
1233PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1234
d45b1de8
PH
1235PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1236
1237PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1238
38a0a95f 1239PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1240 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1241
a2405d83
JJ
1242JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1243 in 4.64-PH/09.
1244
1245JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1246 miscellaneous code fixes
1247
6ea85e9a
PH
1248PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1249 rejections.
1250
26da7e20
PH
1251PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1252 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1253 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1254 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1255 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1256 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1257 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1258 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1259
14aa5a05 1260PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1261 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1262 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1263 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1264 function.
1265 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1266 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1267 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1268 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1269 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1270 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1271 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1272 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1273 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1274
ff75a1f7
PH
1275PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1276 decoding.
1277
e6f6568e
PH
1278PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1279 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1280 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1281 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1282 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1283 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1284 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1285 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1286
d6f6e0dc
PH
1287PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1288 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1289 list.
1290
322050c2
PH
1291PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1292 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1293 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1294 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1295 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1296 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1297 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1298 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1299 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1300 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1301 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1302 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1303 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1304
08955dd3
PH
1305PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1306 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1307 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1308 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1309 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1310 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1311 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1312
1eccaa59
PH
1313PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1314 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1315 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1316 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1317 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1318 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1319 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1320 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1321 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1322 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1323
602e59e5
PH
1324PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1325 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1326 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1327 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1328 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1329
411ef850
PH
1330PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1331 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1332 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1333 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1334 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1335 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1336 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1337
7befa435
PH
1338PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1339 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1340 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1341 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1342 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1343 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1344 been verified.
1345
48da4259 1346PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1347 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1348 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1349 and authorization.)
1350
48da4259
PH
1351PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1352 if any retry times were supplied.
1353
d1d5595c
PH
1354PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1355 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1356 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1357
0ef732d9
PH
1358PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1359
328895cc
PH
1360PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1361
fd700877
PH
1362PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1363 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1364 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1365 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1366 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1367 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1368
8dce1a6f
PH
1369PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1370 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1371
17af4a17
PH
1372PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1373 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1374 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1375
1376PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1377 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1378 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1379 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1380 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1381 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1382 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1383 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1384 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1385
1386 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1387 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1388 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1389 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1390 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1391 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1392 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1393 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1394 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1395
1396 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1397 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1398 hammering the server.
1399
c1114884
PH
1400PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1401 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1402
7a0743eb
PH
1403PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1404
0d85fa3f
PH
1405PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1406 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1407 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1408
1bf43b78
PH
1409PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1410 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1411 one case where this was not true.
1412
520de300
PH
1413PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1414 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1415 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1416 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1417 fails.
1418
48c7f9e2
PH
1419PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1420 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1421 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1422 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1423 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1424 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1425 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1426 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1427 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1428 smtp transport.
1429
99ea1c86
PH
1430PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1431 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1432 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1433 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1434
a2042e78
PH
1435PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1436 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1437
4fbcfc2e
PH
1438PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1439 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1440 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1441
aa41d2de
PH
1442PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1443
af561417
PH
1444PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1445
3cc66b45
PH
1446PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1447
194cc0e4
PH
1448PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1449 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1450 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1451 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1452
a401ddaa
PH
1453PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1454 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1455
4e88a19f
PH
1456PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1457 be meaningful with "accept".
1458
d7d7b289
SC
1459SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1460 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1461
1462SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1463 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1464 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1465
1466SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1467 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1468 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1469 there is data to show.
1470 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1471
1472SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1473 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1474 as well as the number of messages.
1475
1476SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1477 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1478 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1479
1480SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1481 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1482 have a flag are now skipped.
1483
1484SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1485 Added the -emptyok flag.
1486
1487SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1488 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1489
0ea2a468
JJ
1490JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1491 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1492 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1493
1494JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1495 match 4.64-PH/13
1496
1497JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1498 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1499
1500JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1501
1502JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1503 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1504
8a10f5a4
PH
1505PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1506
30e18802
PH
1507PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1508 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1509 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1510 contravention of the specifications.
1511
55728a4f
PH
1512PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1513 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1514 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1515
d7837193
PH
1516PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1517 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1518 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1519
87054a31
PH
1520PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1521
ea2c01d2
MH
1522MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1523 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1524 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1525 some point in the past.
1526
e4fa6968
PH
1527PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1528 transport during callout processing was broken.
1529
56f5d9bd
PH
1530PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1531 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1532
922e1c28
PH
1533PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1534 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1535
21eb6e72
PH
1536PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1537 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1538
a0540757
PH
1539PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1540
944e9e9c 1541
478be7b0
SC
1542Exim version 4.63
1543-----------------
1544
1545SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1546 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1547
1548SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1549 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1550 there is data to show.
1551 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1552
1553SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1554 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1555
2b965a65
TF
1556TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1557 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1558
45b91596
PH
1559TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1560 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1561
c59f5781
TF
1562TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1563 submissions from trusted users.
1564
90fc3069
TF
1565TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1566 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1567
6083aca0
TF
1568TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1569 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1570 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1571 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1572 there is now a framework to start from.
1573
765b530f
PH
1574PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1575 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1576 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1577
4e167a8c
PH
1578PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1579
4608d683
PH
1580PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1581
b8dc3e4a
PH
1582PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1583
5418e93b
PH
1584PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1585 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1586 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1587
b4a9bda2
PH
1588PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1589 libradius.
1590
45b91596
PH
1591PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1592 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1593 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1594
5547e2c5
PH
1595PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1596 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1597 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1598 its arguments.
1599
dbcef0ea
PH
1600PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1601 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1602 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1603 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1604 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1605
25257489
PH
1606PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1607 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1608
c816d124
PH
1609PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1610
a9ccd69a
PH
1611PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1612 operations in malware.c.
1613
75fa1910
PH
1614PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1615 signatures.
1616
a7d7aa58
PH
1617PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1618 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1619 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1620 all.
1621
42119b09
PH
1622PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1623 statements to "add_header".
1624
41609df5
PH
1625PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1626 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1627
a5bd321b
PH
1628PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1629 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1630 latter.
1631
e85a7ad5 1632PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1633 so that it is now:
1634
e85a7ad5
PH
1635 ${if or { \
1636 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1637 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1638 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1639 }{no}{yes}}
1640
e85a7ad5
PH
1641 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1642 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1643
d8fe1c03
PH
1644PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1645 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1646
16282d2b
PH
1647PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1648 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1649 any possible encoding problems.
1650
35d40a98
PH
1651PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1652 but not after initializing Perl.
1653
034d99ab
PH
1654PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1655 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1656 apparently, which is not desirable.
1657
6ec97b1b
PH
1658PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1659 queries.
1660
e22ca4ac
JJ
1661JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1662 --not options
1663
1664JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1665
33d73e3b
PH
1666PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1667 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1668 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1669 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1670
9ecb03f3
PH
1671PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1672 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1673 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1674
084efe8d
PH
1675PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1676 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1677 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1678 0.12.
1679
366fc9f0
PH
1680PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1681 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1682 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1683 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1684 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1685
c59f5781 1686
c887c79e
TF
1687Exim version 4.62
1688-----------------
1689
1690TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1691 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1692
1cce3af8
PH
1693PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1694 patch).
1695
afb3eaaf
PH
1696PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1697 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1698 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1699 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1700 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1701 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1702 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1703 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1704 451 error is used.
1705
e173618b
PH
1706PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1707
dd16e114
PH
1708PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1709 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1710 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1711
f7fd3850
PH
1712PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1713 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1714 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1715 odd errors.
1716
d87df92c
PH
1717PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1718 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1719
7e9f683d
PH
1720PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1721 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1722 option (which defaults to 0600).
1723
bfad5236
PH
1724PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1725
01c490df
PH
1726PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1727 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1728 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1729 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1730 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1731 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1732 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1733
d6629cdc
PH
1734PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1735
1cce3af8 1736
214e2000
PH
1737Exim version 4.61
1738-----------------
1739
1740PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1741 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1742 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1743 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1744 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1745 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1746 addresses as local.
1747
f9daeae0
PH
1748PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1749 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1750
7e66e54d
PH
1751PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1752
c8ea1597
PH
1753PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1754 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1755 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1756 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1757 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1758 grumble.
1759
911f6fde
PH
1760PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1761 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1762
47ca6d6c
PH
1763PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1764 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1765 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1766 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1767 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1768
ed0e9820
PH
1769PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1770 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1771 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1772 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1773
eff37e47
PH
1774PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1775 be the same on different OS.
1776
1921d2ea
PH
1777PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1778 testing.
1779
b3f69ca8
JJ
1780JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1781 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1782
1783JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1784 in 4.61-PH/06
1785
424a1c63
PH
1786PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1787 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1788 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1789 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1790 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1791 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1792 bounce message.
1793
7a100415
PH
1794PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1795 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1796 when Exim was called.
1797
19b9dc85
PH
1798PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1799 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1800
309bd837
PH
1801PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1802 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1803 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1804 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1805
59e82a2a
PH
1806PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1807 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1808 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1809 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1810 changes:
1811
1812 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1813 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1814 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1815
1816 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1817 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1818 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1819
9edc04ce
PH
1820PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1821 feature).
1822
1349e1e5
PH
1823PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1824 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1825 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1826 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1827 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1828 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1829 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1830 values from the SRV records were lost.
1831
ea49d0e1
PH
1832PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1833 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1834 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1835
064a94c9
PH
1836PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1837 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1838 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1839
727071f8
PH
1840PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1841 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1842 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1843 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1844 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1845 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1846 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1847 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1848 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1849 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1850
f78eb7c6
PH
1851PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1852 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1853 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1854
21c28500
PH
1855PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1856 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1857
1858PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1859 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1860 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1861 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1862 is given.
1863
1688f43b
PH
1864PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1865 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1866 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1867
1868PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1869 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1870 PH/23 above applies.
1871
9675b384
PH
1872PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1873 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1874 (for which there is an explicit test).
1875
6a3f1455
PH
1876PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1877
dac79d3e
PH
1878PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1879 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1880 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1881 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1882 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1883
5977a0b3
PH
1884PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1885 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1886 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1887 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1888
c91535f3
PH
1889PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1890 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1891 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1892
0d46a8c8
PH
1893PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1894
278c6e6c
PH
1895PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1896
2cbb4081
PH
1897PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1898 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1899 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1900
3eef829e
PH
1901PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1902 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1903 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1904 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1905 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1906
1ab95fa6
PH
1907PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1908 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1909 the message gets confusing).
1910
230205fc
PH
1911PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1912 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1913 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1914 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1915
75e0e026
PH
1916PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1917 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1918 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1919 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1920 same order.
1921
1922PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1923 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1924 the different processes.
1925
145396a6
PH
1926PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1927
3cd34f13
PH
1928PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1929
11121d3d
JJ
1930JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1931 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1932
1933JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1934 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1935
1936JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1937 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1938 messages matching specified criteria.
1939
8def5aaf
PH
1940PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1941
929ba01c
PH
1942PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1943 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1944
2632889e
PH
1945PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1946 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1947 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1948 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1949 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1950 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1951 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1952 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1953 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1954 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1955
944a9c55
PH
1956PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1957 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1958 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1959
4a23603b
PH
1960PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1961
4730f942
PH
1962PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1963 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1964 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1965 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1966 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1967 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1968 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1969 the variable.
1970
30dba1e6
PH
1971PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1972 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1973
382afc6b
PH
1974PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1975
a86229cf
PH
1976PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1977
50c99ba6
PH
1978PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1979
d35e429d
PH
1980PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1981 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1982 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1983 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1984 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1985 size of the count of files.
1986
f90d018c
PH
1987PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1988
75def545
PH
1989PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1990 used in LMTP mode:
1991
1992 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1993 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1994 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1995 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1996
1997 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1998 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1999 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2000
2001PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2002 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2003 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2004 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2005 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2006
c46782ef
PH
2007PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2008 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2009
71fafd95
PH
2010PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2011 will now be deprecated.
2012
2c5db4fd
PH
2013PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2014
9cf6b11a
JJ
2015JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2016 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2017 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2018
2019JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2020 with very large, slow to parse queues
2021
2022JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2023
2024JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2025
898d150f
PH
2026PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2027 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2028 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2029 SMTP output lines.
2030
46218253
PH
2031PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2032 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2033 Sieve code now uses this.
2034
e97957bc
PH
2035PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2036 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2037
81e509d7
PH
2038PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2039 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2040
3d240ff7
PH
2041PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2042
b37c4101
PH
2043PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2044 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2045 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2046 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2047 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2048
79378e0f
PH
2049PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2050 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2051 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2052 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2053
e49c7bb4
PH
2054PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2055
d114ec46
PH
2056PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2057
f3d7df6c
PH
2058PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2059 is preferred over IPv4.
2060
715ab376
PH
2061PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2062 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2063 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2064 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2065 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2066 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2067 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2068
6b31b150
PH
2069PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2070 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2071 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2072
2073PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2074
d515a917
PH
2075PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2076 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2077 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2078 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2079 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2080 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2081 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2082 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2083 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2084 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2085 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2086
9b8fadde
PH
2087PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2088 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2089 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2090
214e2000 2091
5de37277
PH
2092Exim version 4.60
2093-----------------
2094
cc38ddbf
PH
2095PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2096
2097 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2098 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2099
2100 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2101 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2102 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2103
72fdd6ae
PH
2104PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2105
2106 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2107 not a single digit.
2108
2109 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2110 string.
2111
2112 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2113 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2114 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2115 silly things.
2116
2117 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2118 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2119
2120 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2121 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2122
cb741023
PH
2123PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2124 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2125 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2126
f174f16e
PH
2127PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2128 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2129
c25242d7
PH
2130PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2131 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2132
2133 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2134
2135 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2136 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2137 this:
2138
2139 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2140
82c19f95
PH
2141PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2142 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2143 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2144 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2145 identical. For example:
2146
2147 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2148
2149 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2150 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2151 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2152
d7ffbc12
PH
2153PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2154 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2155 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2156 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2157
9f526266
PH
2158PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2159 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2160 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2161 message.
2162
87fcc8b9
PH
2163PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2164
2165 o fixes some comments
2166 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2167 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2168 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2169 and documents the missing references header update
2170
2171 and most important:
2172
2173 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2174 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2175 result)
2176
456682f5
PH
2177PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2178 Electronic Mail") by including:
2179
2180 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2181
2182 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2183 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2184 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2185 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2186 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2187
2188 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2189
2190 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2191
2192 The auto-replied keyword:
2193
2194 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2195 message by an automatic process,
2196
2197 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2198
2199 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2200 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2201
2202 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2203 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2204 other messages.
2205
3e46c1aa
PH
2206PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2207 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2208
49826d12
PH
2209PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2210
eba0c039
PH
2211PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2212 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2213 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2214
a0d6ba8a
PH
2215PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2216 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2217 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2218
f0917727
PH
2219PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2220 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2221 and treats the condition as false.
2222
096fee00
PH
2223PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2224
024bd3c2
PH
2225PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2226 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2227 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2228 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2229 not changing the active code.
2230
2231 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2232 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2233
2234 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2235 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2236
df199fec
PH
2237PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2238 (Bugzilla #53).
2239
d27f1df3
PH
2240PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2241 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2242 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2243 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2244 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2245 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2246 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2247 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2248 the text comparison.
2249
96776534
PH
2250PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2251 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2252 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2253 The same fix has been applied.
2254
5de37277 2255
9a799bc0
PH
2256Exim version 4.54
2257-----------------
2258
2259PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2260 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2261 It now does.
2262
99a4b039
PH
2263PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2264 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2265
2266PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2267
4b233853
PH
2268PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2269 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2270 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2271 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2272 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2273
8857ccfd
PH
2274TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2275 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2276 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2277 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2278 or /domain=).
2279
433a2980
PH
2280PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2281 testing suite.
2282
3e46c1aa 2283
9a799bc0 2284
e3a311ba
TK
2285Exim version 4.53
2286-----------------
2287
2288TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2289 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2290
13b685f9
PH
2291PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2292
395ff96d
PH
2293PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2294
5b68f6e4
PH
2295PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2296 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2297 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2298
1ab52c69
PH
2299PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2300 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2301 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2302
b07e6aa3
PH
2303PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2304 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2305 operating systems.
2306
254e032f
PH
2307PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2308 ${stat: expansion item.
2309
3af76a81
PH
2310PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2311 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2312
2548ba04
PH
2313PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2314 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2315 file for comments.
2316
b6c6011d
PH
2317PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2318
cf39cf57
PH
2319PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2320 setting.
2321
f1513293
PH
2322PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2323 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2324
727549a4
PH
2325TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2326
af46795e
PH
2327PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2328 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2329 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2330 the end of the subprocess.
2331
d7b47fd0
PH
2332PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2333 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2334 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2335 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2336 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2337
ee744174
JJ
2338JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2339
b582ab87
PH
2340TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2341
41a13e0a
PH
2342PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2343 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2344
f625cc5a
PH
2345PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2346
2347PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2348
21f7af35
PH
2349PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2350 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2351 HP-UX compiler.
2352
31480e42
PH
2353PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2354
2d280592
PH
2355PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2356 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2357 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2358
7cd1141b
PH
2359PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2360 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2361
2362PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2363 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2364
750af86e
PH
2365PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2366 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2367
2368 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2369 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2370
2371 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2372 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2373 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2374 contributed by a Radius user.
2375
2376PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2377 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2378
4304270b
TK
2379TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2380 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2381
750af86e
PH
2382PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2383 available.
2384
64ffc24f
PH
2385PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2386 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2387 received.
2388
5dd9625b
PH
2389PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2390 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2391 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2392 header lines when this was not necessary.
2393
5591031b
PH
2394PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2395
ba18e66a
PH
2396PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2397 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2398 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2399 exists".
2400
9cec981f
PH
2401PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2402 -bV or -d is used.
2403
aa2b5c79
PH
2404PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2405 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2406 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2407 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2408
48a53b7f
PH
2409PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2410
1c59d63b
PH
2411PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2412
671012da
TK
2413TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2414
1509d3a8
PH
2415PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2416
2417PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2418 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2419 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2420 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2421 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2422 settings.
2423
2424PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2425
2fe1a124
PH
2426PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2427 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2428 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2429 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2430 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2431 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2432 which is clearly wrong.
2433
8800895a
PH
2434PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2435
ccfdb010
PH
2436PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2437 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2438 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2439 subsequently added.
2440
1130bfb0
PH
2441PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2442 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2443
ebcb507f
PH
2444PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2445
c35e155c
PH
2446PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2447 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2448
95d1f782
PH
2449PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2450 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2451
fd6de02e
PH
2452PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2453 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2454
58de37c5
PH
2455PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2456 recipients, not senders.
2457
261cf466
TF
2458TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2459 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2460
3ee512ff
PH
2461PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2462
e08c430f
PH
2463PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2464
bef5a11f
PH
2465PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2466 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2467 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2468 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2469
7546de58
TF
2470TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2471
e5d5a95f
TF
2472TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2473 clock is set back in time.
2474
2e88a017
TF
2475TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2476 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2477
a5f65aa4
TF
2478TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2479 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2480
e7726cbf
PH
2481PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2482 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2483 (see PH/47 above).
2484
a7fdad5b
TF
2485TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2486 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2487 header rewrites.
2488
6af56900
PH
2489PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2490 type ("H").
2491
0925ede6
PH
2492PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2493
66afa403
TF
2494TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2495 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2496 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2497
0154e85a
TF
2498TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2499 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2500 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2501 helo verification defer as a failure.
2502
16f12c76
PH
2503PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2504 actual error message.
2505
bbe902f0 2506
e5a9dba6
PH
2507Exim version 4.52
2508-----------------
2509
2510TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2511
22c3b60b
PH
2512PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2513 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2514 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2515 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2516
06a9b4b5
PH
2517TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2518
c1ac6996
PH
2519PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2520 can still be requested.
2521
9c7a242c
PH
2522PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2523 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2524 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2525 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2526
87ba3f5f
PH
2527TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2528 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2529 circumstances, but probably never did.
2530
2531PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2532 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2533 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2534 in the header line.
2535
29aba418
TF
2536TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2537
fe0dab11
TF
2538TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2539 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2540
11d337a4
TK
2541TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2542
2543TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2544
415c8f3b
PH
2545PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2546 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2547 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2548 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2549 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2550 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2551
958541e9
PH
2552PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2553 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2554 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2555 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2556 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2557 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2558
c206415f
TK
2559TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2560 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2561
2a4be8f9
PH
2562PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2563 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2564
1cba11c5
SC
2565SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2566 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2567
2568SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2569
2570SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2571
2572SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2573
2574SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2575
2576SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2577
2578SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2579
1005d00e
TK
2580TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2581
2582TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2583 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2584 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2585
2586TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2587 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2588 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2589 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2590
9b4768fa
PH
2591PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2592 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2593 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2594
2595PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2596 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2597 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2598 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2599
0d7eb84a
PH
2600PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2601 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2602 to be made).
2603
2604PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2605 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2606 should work with maildirs and everything.
2607
40727bee
TK
2608TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2609 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2610
554d2369
TF
2611TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2612 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2613
1f922db1
PH
2614PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2615 function for BDB 4.3.
2616
ef213c3b
PH
2617PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2618
8ac170f3
PH
2619PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2620 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2621 involved.
2622
b1c749bb
PH
2623PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2624 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2625 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2626 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2627 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2628 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2629
4aac9b49
PH
2630PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2631 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2632 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2633 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2634 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2635 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2636 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2637 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2638
294520c8
TK
2639TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2640 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2641 details.
2642
5bd022fe
PH
2643PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2644 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2645
90e9ce59
PH
2646PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2647 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2648 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2649 test. It is now used for both.
2650
5ea81592
PH
2651PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2652 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2653 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2654 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2655 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2656 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2657
c6c2dc1d
PH
2658PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2659 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2660 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2661 string_vformat().
2662
fffffe4c
PH
2663PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2664 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2665 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2666
9a26b6b2
PH
2667PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2668 experimental DomainKeys support:
2669
2670 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2671 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2672 the control was given.
2673
2674 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2675
4aee0225
PH
2676PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2677
32d668a5
PH
2678PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2679
8187c3f3
PH
2680PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2681 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2682 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2683 db.h files).
2684
ff790e47 2685PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2686 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2687 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2688 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2689 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2690 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2691 course.
ff790e47 2692
5417f6d1
PH
2693PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2694 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2695 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2696 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2697 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2698 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2699
59cf8544
PH
2700PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2701 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2702 do -d+all out of habit.
2703
e7ad8a65
PH
2704PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2705 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2706 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2707
ade42478
PH
2708PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2709 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2710 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2711 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2712 record types that Exim uses.
2713
182ad5cf
PH
2714PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2715 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2716 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2717 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2718 non-existent file that was broken.
2719
b0d9fc80
TK
2720TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2721 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2722
2723TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2724 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2725 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2726
2727TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2728
47c7a64a
PH
2729PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2730 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2731 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2732 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2733 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2734 same time.
2735
a388bce4
SC
2736SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2737 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2738 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2739 at a slight CPU cost.
2740
2741SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2742 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2743
2744SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2745 by Marc Sherman.
2746
0793e4ed
SC
2747SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2748
c58b88df
PH
2749PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2750 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2751
e7ad8a65 2752
7982096b
PH
2753Exim version 4.51
2754-----------------
2755
1a46a8c5
PH
2756TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2757 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2758
2f079f46 2759TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2760
2761TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2762
2763PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2764 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2765
2766PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2767 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2768 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2769 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2770 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2771 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2772 file.
2773
2774PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2775 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2776 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2777 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2778 these two options.
2779
2780PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2781 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2782 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2783 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2784 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2785 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2786 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2787 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2788
2789PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2790 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2791
2792PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2793 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2794 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2795 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2796 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2797 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2798
2799PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2800 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2801 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2802 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2803
2804PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2805 Finch).
2806
2807PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2808 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2809
49c2d5ea
PH
2810PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2811 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2812 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2813 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2814 message.
49c2d5ea 2815
bf759a8b
PH
2816PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2817
83364d30
PH
2818PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2819 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2820
7999bbd7
PH
2821PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2822 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2823 to what was transported.)
2824
7dbf77c9
PH
2825TF/01 Added $received_time.
2826
74e0617f
PH
2827PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2828 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2829 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2830 spamd_address settings.
2831
2f079f46
PH
2832PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2833 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2834 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2835 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2836 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2837
8c841523
PH
2838PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2839
7766a4f0
PH
2840PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2841 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2842 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2843 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2844 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2845
8b417f2c
PH
2846PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2847 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2848
901f42cb
PH
2849PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2850 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2851 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2852 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2853 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2854 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2855 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2856 for failure.
2857
f9b9210e
PH
2858PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2859 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2860 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2861 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2862 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2863 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2864 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2865 "input=".
2866
54cdb463
PH
2867PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2868
cf00dad6
PH
2869PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2870 driver and ACL definitions.
2871
acb1b346
PH
2872PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2873 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2874
c5ddb310
PH
2875PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2876 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2877 understands it better than I do:
2878
2879 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2880 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2881
2882 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2883 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2884 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2885 => three warnings about OTP not working
2886 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2887
2888 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2889 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2890 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2891 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2892 for each call.)
2893 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2894 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2895
2896 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2897 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2898 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2899
31619da6
PH
2900PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2901 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2902 specified.
2903
bebaf0fc
PH
2904PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2905 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2906 "Linux".
2907
475fe28a
PH
2908PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2909 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2910 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2911
2912 warn !verify = sender
2913 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2914
2915 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2916 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2917
7e8bec7a
PH
2918PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2919
2920 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2921 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2922
2923 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2924 nomenclature these days.)
2925
e4a89c47
PH
2926PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2927 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2928
5ca2a9a1
PH
2929PH/30 In these circumstances:
2930 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2931 . First host does not offer TLS;
2932 . First host accepts first address;
2933 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2934 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2935 . Second host accepts second address.
2936 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2937 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2938 address.
7e8bec7a 2939
c688b954
PH
2940PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2941 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2942 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2943 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2944 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2945
fed77020
PH
2946PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2947 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2948
7fe1560f
PH
2949PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2950 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2951
ebb6e6d5
PH
2952PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2953 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2954 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2955
9c4e8f60
PH
2956PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2957 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2958 overlooked.
2959
2960PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2961
d7174846
PH
2962PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2963 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2964 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2965 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2966 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2967 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2968 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2969
2970 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2971 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2972 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2973 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2974 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2975
2976 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2977 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2978 routed further.
2979
cfe75fc3
PH
2980PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2981 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2982 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2983 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2984 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2985 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2986
be22d70e
PH
2987PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2988
0612b098
PH
2989PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2990 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2991 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2992 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2993 printable escape sequences.
2994
2e0c1448
PH
2995PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2996 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2997 body only.
2998
447d236c
PH
2999PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3000 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3001 are as follows:
3002
3003 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3004 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3005 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3006 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3007 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3008
3009 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3010 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3011 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3012
d20976dc
PH
3013PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3014
f656d135
PH
3015PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3016 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3017 play with."
3018
2e2a30b4
PH
3019PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3020 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3021 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3022 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3023 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3024 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3025 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3026 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3027 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3028 the log output.
3029
9176e9f0
PH
3030PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3031 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3032 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3033 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3034 "make".
3035
7982096b 3036
bbe902f0
PH
3037A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3038----------------------------------------
3039
3040Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3041changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3042needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3043in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3044that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3045release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3046from 4.43.
3047
3048I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30494.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3050those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3051historical information.
3052
3053
f7b63901 3054Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3055-----------------
3056
5fe762f6
PH
3057 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3058
139059f6 3059 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3060 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3061
7086e875
PH
3062 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3063 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3064 place.
3065
35af9f61
PH
3066 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3067 filter fails to execute.
3068
b668c215
PH
3069 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3070 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3071 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3072 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3073 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3074
a494b1e1
PH
3075 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3076
3077 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3078 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3079 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3080 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3081
c5fcb476
PH
3082 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3083 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3084 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3085 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3086 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3087
69358f02
PH
3088 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3089
5be20824
PH
309010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3091
eb2c0248
PH
309211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3093 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3094 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3095 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3096
2a3eea10
PH
309712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3098 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3099 sender verification.
3100
310113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3102 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3103
23c7ff99
PH
310414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3105
4deaf07d
PH
310615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3107 connection timeout.
3108
926e1192
PH
310916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3110 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3111
650edc6f
PH
311217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3113 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3114
2c7db3f5
PH
311518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3116 information about exactly what failed.
3117
3d235903
PH
311819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3119
7c7ad977
PH
312020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3121 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3122 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3123
981756db
PH
312421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3125 It is now set to "smtps".
3126
d4eb88df
PH
312722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3128 ignore_target_hosts.
3129
313023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3131 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3132 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3133 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3134 "[x.x.x.x]".
3135
7d468ab8
PH
313624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3137 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3138 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3139
314025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3141 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3142 wake it up if nothing else does.
3143
62c0818f
PH
314426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3145 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3146 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3147 end up negative.
3148
26034054
PH
314927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3150 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3151
af66f652
PH
315228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3153
90af77f4
PH
315429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3155 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3156 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3157 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3158 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3159 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3160 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3161 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3162
d8ef3577
PH
316330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3164 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3165 than one IP address.
3166
5cb8cbc6
PH
316731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3168 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3169 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3170 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3171
14702f5b
PH
317232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3173 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3174 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3175 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3176 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3177 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3178
063b1e99
PH
317933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3180 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3181 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3182 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3183
652e1b65
PH
318434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3185 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3186 respected.
3187
6f0c9a4f
PH
318835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3189 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3190 $sender_host_address.
3191
33397d19
PH
319236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3193 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3194 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3195 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3196 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3197 very small.
3198
7bb56e1f
PH
319937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3200
3201 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3202 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3203
ea3bc19b
PH
3204 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3205 just the host names, not the priorities.
3206
3207 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3208 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3209 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3210
ea3bc19b 3211 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3212 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3213
0bcb2a0e
PH
321438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3215 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3216 domain.
3217
2ac0e484
PH
321839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3219
4e1fde53
PH
322040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3221 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3222
de365ded
PH
322341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3224 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3225 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3226
f05da2e8
PH
322742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3228
d6453af2
PH
322943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3230
f7b63901
PH
323144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3232
323345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3234 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3235 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3236 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3237 because the tests only now provoked it.
3238
a444213a
PH
323946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3240 (this can affect the format of dates).
3241
0ec020ea
PH
324247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3243 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3244 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3245 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3246
b1206957
PH
324748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3248
324949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3250 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3251 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3252 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3253
26dd5a95
PH
325450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3255 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3256 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3257
343b2385
PH
325851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3259 autoreply.
3260
1c5466b9
PH
326152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3262 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3263 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3264 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3265 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3266 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3267 is going on).
3268
55ee9ee3
PH
326953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3270 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3271 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3272 the line.
3273
d38f8232
PH
327454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3275 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3276 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3277
3278 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3279 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3280 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3281 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3282 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3283 so I produce this patch..."
3284
3295e65b
PH
3285 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3286 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3287 is not defined.
3288
7102e136
PH
328955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3290 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3291 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3292 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3293 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3294
3ca0ba97
PH
329556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3296
c2bcbe20
PH
329757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3298 long debug lines gets shown.
3299
18ce445d
PH
330058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3301 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3302
1f5b4c3d
PH
330359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3304
3305 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3306 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3307 of $primary_hostname.
3308
b975ba52
PH
330960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3310 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3311 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3312 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3313 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3314 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3315 by change 4.50/55 above.
3316
3317 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3318 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3319 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3320 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3321 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3322 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3323 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3324
332561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3326 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3327 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3328 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3329
17ffcae7
PH
333062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3331 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3332
d95f9fdb
PH
333363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3334 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3335 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3336 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3337 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3338
86b8287f
PH
333964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3340 This has been fixed.
3341
60dc5e56
PH
334265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3343 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3344 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3345 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3346 the caching.)
3347
533244af
PH
334866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3349
a5a28604
PH
335067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3351 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3352 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3353 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3354
7e634d24
PH
335568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3356 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3357
3e11c26b
PH
335869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3359 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3360 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3361
6729cf78
PH
336270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3363 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3364 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3365 message there.
3366
00f00ca5
PH
336771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3368 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3369 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3370
c9bdd01c
PH
337172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3372 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3373 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3374 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3375
d43194df
PH
337673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3377 during host lookups.
3378
fe5b5d0b
PH
337974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3380 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3381
3382 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3383
76a2d7ba
PH
338475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3385 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3386 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3387 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3388 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3389 background.
3390
339176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3392 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3393
04f7d5b9
PH
339477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3395 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3396 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3397
bc60667e
PH
339878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3399
bb6e88ff
PH
340079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3401 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3402 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3403 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3404 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3405 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3406 process earlier.
3407
1e70f85b
PH
340880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3409 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3410 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3411 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3412 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3413
341481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3415 tables).
3416
4e01f9d6
PH
341782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3418
1ee1cef2
PH
341983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3420 "vacation" handling.
3421
6e2b4ccc
PH
342284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3423 OS variants using glibc.
3424
8e669ac1
PH
342585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3426
495ae4b0 3427
bbe902f0
PH
3428----------------------------------------------------
3429See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3430----------------------------------------------------
3431
3432
3433Exim version 4.44
3434-----------------
3435
3436 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3437 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3438 transport
3439
3440 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3441 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3442 place.
3443
3444 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3445 filter fails to execute.
3446
3447 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3448 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3449 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3450 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3451 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3452
3453 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3454 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3455 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3456 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3457
3458 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3459 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3460 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3461 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3462 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3463
3464 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3465
3466 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3467 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3468 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3469 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3470
3471 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3472 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3473 sender verification.
3474
347510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3476 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3477
347811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3479 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3480
348112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3482 ignore_target_hosts.
3483
348413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3485 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3486 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3487 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3488 "[x.x.x.x]".
3489
349014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3491 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3492 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3493
349415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3495 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3496 wake it up if nothing else does.
3497
349816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3499 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3500 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3501 end up negative.
3502
350317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3504 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3505
ea3a6f44 350618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3507
350819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3509 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3510 empty pattern.
3511
351220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3513 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3514 one IP address.
3515
ea3a6f44
NM
351621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3517 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3518 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3519 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3520 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3521 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3522
ea3a6f44
NM
352322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3524 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3525 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3526
352723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3528 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3529 $sender_host_address.
3530
353124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3532
ea3a6f44
NM
353325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3534 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3535 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3536
353726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3538 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3539
ea3a6f44
NM
354027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3541 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3542
ea3a6f44
NM
354328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3544 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3545 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3546 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3547
354829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3549 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3550 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3551
ea3a6f44
NM
355230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3553 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3554 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3555 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3556
ea3a6f44
NM
355731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3558 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3559 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3560
ea3a6f44
NM
356131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3562 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3563
ea3a6f44
NM
356432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3565 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3566 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3567 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3568 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3569 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3570 is going on).
bbe902f0 3571
ea3a6f44
NM
357233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3573 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3574 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3575 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3576 CAN-2005-0021
3577
ea3a6f44
NM
357834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3579 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3580 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3581 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3582 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3583 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3584 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3585
3586 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3587 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3588 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3589 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3590 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3591 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3592 CAN-2005-0021
3593
ea3a6f44
NM
359435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3595 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3596 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3597 CAN-2005-0022
3598
ea3a6f44
NM
359936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3600 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3601 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3602 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3603 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3604
ea3a6f44
NM
360537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3606 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3607 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3608 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3609 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3610
ea3a6f44
NM
361138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3612 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3613 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3614 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3615 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3616
3617
495ae4b0
PH
3618Exim version 4.43
3619-----------------
3620
3621 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3622 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3623 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3624 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3625 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3626 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3627 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3628
3629 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3630 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3631 the delivery.
3632
3633 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3634
3635 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3636
3637 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3638 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3639 to local_scan().
3640
3641 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3642 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3643 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3644 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3645 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3646
3647 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3648 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3649
3650 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3651
3652 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3653
365410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3655 header_sender only.
3656
365711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3658 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3659
366012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3661 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3662 affecting debugging statements).
3663
366413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3665
366614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3667 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3668 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3669 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3670 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3671 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3672 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3673 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3674 after the received time, and all would be well.
3675
367615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3677 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3678 condition in an expansion string.
3679
368016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3681
368217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3683 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3684 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3685 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3686 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3687 job under whatever limits there are.
3688
368918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3690
369119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3692 space).
3693
369420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3695 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3696 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3697 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3698 return path is set.
3699
370021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3701 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3702 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3703 binary data in such strings.
3704
370522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3706
370723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3708 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3709 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3710 failure, which is pointless.
3711
371224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3713
371425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3715
371626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3717 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3718 Sender: header lines.
3719
372027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3721 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3722 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3723
372428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3725 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3726 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3727 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3728 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3729 happens.
3730
373129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3732 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3733 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3734 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3735 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3736
373730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3738 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3739 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3740 1024.
3741
374231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3743 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3744
374532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3746 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3747
374833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3749
375032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3751
375233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3753
375434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3755 syntax error.
3756
375735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3758
375936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3760
376137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3762 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3763 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3764 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3765
376638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3767 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3768
3769
3770Exim version 4.42
3771-----------------
3772
3773 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3774 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3775 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3776 it was not quoted.
3777 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3778 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3779 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3780 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3781 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3782 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3783
3784 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3785 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3786 verification failure".
3787
3788 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3789 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3790 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3791 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3792
3793 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3794 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3795 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3796 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3797 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3798 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3799 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3800 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3801 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3802 treated as a timeout.
3803
3804 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3805 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3806 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3807 not set for Exim filters).
3808
3809 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3810 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3811 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3812
3813 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3814
3815 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3816 try to make them clearer.
3817
3818 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3819 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3820
3821 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3822
3823 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3824
382510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3826 only the Cygwin environment.
3827
382811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3829 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3830 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3831 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3832 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3833
383412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3835 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3836 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3837 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3838 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3839 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3840 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3841
384213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3843 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3844
384514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3846
3847 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3848 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3849 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3850
3851 To: susanne@some.where
3852
3853 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3854 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3855 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3856 of addresses in From: header lines).
3857
3858 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3859 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3860 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3861
3862 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3863 treated as non-personal.
3864
3865 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3866 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3867
386815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3869
387016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3871
387217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3873 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3874 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3875
387618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3877 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3878
387919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3880 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3881 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3882 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3883 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3884 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3885
388620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3887 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3888 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3889 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3890 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3891 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3892 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3893 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3894
3895 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3896
389721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3898 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3899
390022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3901 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3902 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3903
390423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3905 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3906
390724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3908 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3909 rather than long int.
3910
391125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3912
391326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3914
3915
3916Exim version 4.41
3917-----------------
3918
3919 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3920 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3921 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3922 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3923 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3924 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3925
3926
3927Exim version 4.40
3928-----------------
3929
3930 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3931 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3932
3933 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3934 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3935 socklen_t is defined.
3936
3937 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3938 always exist.
3939
3940 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3941 configured.
3942
3943 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3944 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3945 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3946 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3947 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3948
3949 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3950 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3951 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3952 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3953
3954 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3955 of flapping under certain conditions.
3956
3957 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3958 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3959 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3960
3961 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3962
396310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3964
396511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3966 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3967 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3968 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3969
397012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3971 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3972 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3973 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3974 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3975 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3976 preserved with the message after it was received.
3977
397813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3979 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3980 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3981 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3982 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3983 test suite worked just fine.
3984
398514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3986 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3987 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3988
398915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3990 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3991 string.
3992
399316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3994 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3995 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3996 does not fully solve it.
3997
399817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3999 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4000 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4001 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4002 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4003
400418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4005 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4006 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4007
400819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4009 string, for example:
4010
4011 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4012
4013 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4014 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4015 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4016 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4017 the routers could not see them.
4018
401920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4020 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4021
402221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4023 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4024 output).
4025
402622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4027 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4028 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4029 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4030 that needed quoting.
4031
403223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4033 was not being matched caselessly.
4034
403524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4036 backslashes.
4037
403825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4039 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4040 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4041 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4042 when use_sender is false.
4043
404426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4045
404627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4047
404828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4049
405029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4051 the configuration file.
4052
405330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4054 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4055
405631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4057
405832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4059 bytes in the message body.
4060
406133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4062 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4063 delivery.
4064
406534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4066
406735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4068
406936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4070 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4071 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4072 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4073 another IP address.
4074
4075
4076Exim version 4.34
4077-----------------
4078
4079 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4080 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4081
4082 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4083 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4084 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4085 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4086 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4087
4088 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4089 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4090
4091 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4092 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4093 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4094
4095 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4096 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4097 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4098
4099 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4100 for routers.
4101
4102 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4103 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4104 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4105 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4106 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4107 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4108 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4109
4110
4111Exim version 4.33
4112-----------------
4113
4114 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4115 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4116 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4117 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4118 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4119 default (and expected) setting.
4120
4121 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4122 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4123 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4124 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4125
4126 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4127 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4128
4129 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4130 in domain lists.
4131
4132 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4133 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4134 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4135 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4136 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4137 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4138
4139 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4140 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4141 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4142
4143 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4144 part (NOT match_host).
4145
4146 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4147
4148 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4149 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4150 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4151 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4152 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4153 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4154 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4155 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4156 the same named file.
4157
415810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4159 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4160 when Exim is built.
4161
416211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4163 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4164 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4165 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4166 a host name.
4167
416812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4169 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4170 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4171
417213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4173
417414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4175
417615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4177
417816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4179 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4180
418117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4182 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4183 before starting the TLS session.
4184
418518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4186
418719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4188 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4189
419020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4191 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4192 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4193 colon in the middle).
4194
4195
4196Exim version 4.32
4197-----------------
4198
4199 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4200 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4201 multiple configurations are in use.
4202
4203 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4204 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4205 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4206 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4207 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4208 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4209
4210 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4211 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4212
4213 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4214 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4215 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4216
4217 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4218 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4219 occurs.
4220
4221 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4222 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4223
4224 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4225
4226 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4227 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4228
4229 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4230
4231 -prval:sval
4232
4233 is equivalent to
4234
4235 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4236
4237 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4238 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4239 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4240 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4241 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4242
424310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4244 Exim's behaviour:
4245
4246 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4247 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4248 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4249 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4250 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4251 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4252
4253 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4254 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4255 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4256 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4257 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4258 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4259 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4260 string.
4261
4262 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4263 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4264 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4265 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4266 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4267
426811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4269
427012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4271 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4272 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4273
427413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4275
427614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4277 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4278 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4279 information.
4280
428115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4282 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4283
428416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4285 Three changes have been made:
4286
4287 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4288 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4289 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4290 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4291 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4292
4293 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4294 been restored.
4295
4296 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4297 the modified behaviour.
4298
4299
4300Exim version 4.31
4301-----------------
4302
4303 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4304 Larry Rosenman.
4305
4306 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4307 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4308
4309 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4310 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4311 try to track down a specific problem.
4312
4313 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4314 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4315 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4316
4317 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4318 warning.
4319
4320 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4321 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4322 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4323 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4324 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4325 some earlier ones do not.
4326
4327 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4328
4329 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4330 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4331 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4332 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4333 address literals are enabled, of course).
4334
4335 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4336
433710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4338 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4339 by a command such as
4340
4341 exim -f "" ...
4342
4343 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4344
434511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4346
434712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4348 remained set. It is now erased.
4349
435013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4351 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4352
435314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4354 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4355 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4356 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4357 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4358 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4359 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4360 appropriate error code.
4361
436215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4363 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4364 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4365 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4366 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4367 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4368
436916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4370 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4371 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4372
437317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4374 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4375 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4376 terminate the header.
4377
437818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4379 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4380 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4381
438219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4383 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4384 (4.30/29). In particular:
4385
4386 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4387 imposed.
4388
4389 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4390 to write a maildirsize file.
4391
4392 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4393 the transport, the new value overrides.
4394
4395 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4396 count.
4397
439820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4399 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4400 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4401 space or a tab.
4402
440321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4404 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4405 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4406 the fallback hosts.
4407
440822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4409 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4410 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4411
441223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4413 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4414 using a union.
4415
441624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4417 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4418 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4419
442025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4421
442226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4423
442427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4425
442628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4427 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4428 become corrupted.
4429
443029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4431 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4432 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4433 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4434 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4435 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4436 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4437 too great.
4438
443930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4440 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4441 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4442 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4443 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4444 incorrectly.
4445
444631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4447 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4448 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4449 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4450 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4451 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4452 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4453 cached value only when the same options are set.
4454
445532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4456
445733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4458 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4459 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4460 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4461 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4462
446334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4464 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4465 it is clearly obsolete.
4466
446735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4468 transport.
4469
447036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4471 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4472 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4473 times.
4474
447537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4476 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4477 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4478 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4479 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4480
448138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4482 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4483 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4484 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4485
448639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4487
4488 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4489
4490 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4491 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4492 2^31.
4493
449440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4495 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4496 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4497 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4498 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4499 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4500 $localpart_data.
4501
450241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4503 with the -f command-line option.
4504
450542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4506 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4507 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4508 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4509 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4510 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4511
451243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4513 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4514 line.
4515
451644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4517 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4518 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4519 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4520 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4521 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4522 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4523 buffer is too small.
4524
452545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4526 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4527
452846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4529 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4530 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4531 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4532 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4533 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4534 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4535 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4536 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4537
453847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4539 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4540 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4541
454248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4543 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4544 ACL").
4545
454649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4547 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4548 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4549 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4550 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4551
455250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4553 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4554 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4555 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4556 is set.
4557
455851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4559
456052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4561
456253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4563 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4564
456554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4566 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4567 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4568
456955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4570 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4571 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4572 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4573 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4574
457556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4576 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4577 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4578 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4579 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4580 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4581 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4582
458357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4584 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4585 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4586 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4587 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4588 the test of how many are available.
4589
459058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4591 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4592 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4593 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4594 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4595 new message is started.
4596
459759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4598 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4599
460060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4601 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4602
460361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4604 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4605 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4606 is no long logged.
4607
460862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4609 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4610 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4611 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4612 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4613 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4614 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4615
461663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4617 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4618 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4619 interpreted as octal.
4620
462164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4622 setting.
4623
462465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4625 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4626 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4627 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4628 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4629 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4630
463166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4632 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4633 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4634 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4635
4636 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4637 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4638 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4639 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4640
4641 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4642 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4643 is a bug fix.
4644
4645 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4646 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4647
464867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4649
465068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4651 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4652 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4653 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4654
465569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4656 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4657 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4658 supplied", which is not helpful.
4659
466070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4661 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4662 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4663
466471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4665 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4666 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4667 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4668 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4669 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4670 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4671 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4672
467372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4674 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4675 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4676 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4677 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4678
467973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4680 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4681 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4682 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4683 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4684 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4685
468674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4687 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4688 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4689
469075. Added write_rejectlog option.
4691
469276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4693 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4694 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4695 variables.
4696
469777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4698
469978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4700 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4701 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4702 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4703 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4704 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4705 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4706 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4707
470879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4709 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4710 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4711 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4712 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4713
471480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4715 Haardt.
4716
471781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4718 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4719 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4720 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4721 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4722 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4723 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4724 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4725 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4726
4727
4728Exim version 4.30
4729-----------------
4730
4731 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4732 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4733 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4734
4735 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4736 fixed.
4737
4738 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4739 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4740 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4741
4742 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4743 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4744 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4745 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4746 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4747 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4748
4749 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4750 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4751 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4752 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4753 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4754 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4755 the Exim test suite.
4756
4757 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4758 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4759 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4760 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4761
4762 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4763 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4764 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4765 specify it in this variable.
4766
4767 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4768 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4769 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4770 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4771
4772 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4773 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4774 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4775 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4776
4777 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4778 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4779 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4780 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4781 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4782
4783 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4784
478510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4786 they are logged.
4787
478811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4789 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4790 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4791 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4792 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4793
479412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4795 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4796
479713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4798 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4799 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4800 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4801 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4802
480314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4804 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4805
480615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4807 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4808 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4809
481016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4811 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4812
481317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4814 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4815
481618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4817 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4818 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4819
482019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4821 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4822
482320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4824 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4825 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4826 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4827
482821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4829
483022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4831 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4832 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4833 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4834
483523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4836
483724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4838 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4839
484025. Added .include_if_exists.
4841
484226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4843 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4844 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4845 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4846 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4847 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4848
484927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4850
485128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4852 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4853 this.
4854
485529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4856
485730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4858 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4859
4860 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4861 550 Sender verify failed
4862
4863 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4864 the final line of the response.
4865
486631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4867 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4868 all other user lookups.
4869
487032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4871 delivery time.
4872
487333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4874 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4875 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4876 result into an int without checking.
4877
487834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4879 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4880 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4881
488235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4883 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4884 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4885 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4886
488736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4888 correctly.
4889
489037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4891 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4892
489338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4894 to the empty sender.
4895
489639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4897 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4898 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4899 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4900 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4901 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4902 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4903 panic log.
4904
490540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4906 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4907 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4908 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4909 used.
4910
491141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4912 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4913
491442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4915 timestamps.
4916
491743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4918 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4919
492044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4921
492245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4923 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4924 logs.
4925
492646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4927 as soon as it is encountered.
4928
492947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4930
493148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4932 rewritten to "<>".
4933
493449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4935 recognizes a tab character.
4936
493750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4938 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4939 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4940 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4941
494251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4943
494452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4945 crash.
4946
494753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4948
494954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4950
495155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4952 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4953 2822.
4954
495556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4956 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4957 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4958 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4959 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4960
496157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4962 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4963
496458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4965 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4966 list (.included file names were always shown).
4967
496859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4969 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4970 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4971 root at that time.
4972
497360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4974 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4975
497661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4977
497862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4979
498063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4981
498264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4983 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4984 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4985 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4986 failures to open the logs.
4987
498865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4989 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4990 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4991 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4992 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4993 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4994 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4995
4996
4997Exim version 4.24
4998-----------------
4999
5000 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5001 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5002 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5003 change 4.23/1.
5004
5005 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5006 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5007 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5008
5009 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5010 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5011 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5012
5013 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5014 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5015 causing some misleading effects.
5016
5017 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5018 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5019 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5020
5021 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5022 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5023 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5024 queue-runner function directly.
5025
5026
5027Exim version 4.23
5028-----------------
5029
5030 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5031 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5032
5033 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5034 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5035 was always written to the default place.
5036
5037 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5038 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5039 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5040
5041 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5042
5043 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5044
5045 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5046 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5047 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5048
5049 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5050 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5051 must start.
5052
5053 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5054 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5055 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5056
5057 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5058 command line option is disabled.
5059
5060 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5061 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5062
5063 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5064
5065 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5066
5067 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5068 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5069
507010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5071
507211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5073 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5074 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5075 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5076 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5077 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5078
507912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5080 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5081 timeout.
5082
508313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5084 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5085
508614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5087 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5088
508915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5090 received was valid base64.
5091
509216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5093 name of the variable that was being set.
5094
509517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5096
509718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5098 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5099 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5100 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5101 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5102 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5103
510419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5105
510620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5107 nor realm was specified.
5108
510921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5110 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5111 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5112 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5113
511422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5115 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5116 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5117
511823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5119 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5120 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5121
512224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5123 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5124 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5125 some systems use these upper case variants.
5126
512725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5128 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5129 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5130 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5131
513226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5133
513427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5135 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5136
513728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5138 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5139 expansion variable.
5140
514129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5142
514330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5144 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5145 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5146 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5147
514831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5149 using it.
5150
515132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5152 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5153 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5154
515533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5156 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5157
515834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5159 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5160 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5161 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5162
516335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5164 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5165 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5166
516736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5168
516937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5170 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5171 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5172 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5173 aborted.
5174
517538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5176 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5177 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5178
517939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5180
518140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5182 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5183
518441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5185 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5186
518742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5188 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5189 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5190 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5191 when emails are that large.
5192
5193
5194
5195Exim version 4.22
5196-----------------
5197
5198 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5199 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5200
5201 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5202 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5203 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5204
5205 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5206 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5207 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5208
5209 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5210 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5211 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5212 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5213 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5214
5215 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5216 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5217 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5218 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5219 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5220 ever.
5221
5222 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5223 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5224 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5225 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5226 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5227 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5228 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5229 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5230 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5231 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5232 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5233 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5234 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5235 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5236
5237 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5238 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5239 parameterised it.
5240
5241 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5242 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5243 error should be diagnosed.
5244
5245 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5246 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5247 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5248 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5249 appeared instead of "NULL".
5250
525110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5252 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5253 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5254 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5255 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5256 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5257 proceeds).
5258
5259 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5260 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5261 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5262
5263
5264Exim version 4.21
5265-----------------
5266
5267 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5268 or receiver verification errors.
5269
5270 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5271 name.
5272
5273 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5274 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5275 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5276 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5277
5278 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5279 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5280 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5281 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5282 shouldn't happen again.
5283
5284 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5285 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5286 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5287
5288 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5289 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5290
5291 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5292
5293 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5294 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5295
5296 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5297 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5298 RFC.
5299
530010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5301 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5302 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5303
530411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5305 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5306 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5307 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5308
530912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5310 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5311 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5312 to define what should happen).
5313
531413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5315 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5316 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5317
531814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5319
532015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5321
532216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5323 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5324
532517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5326 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5327 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5328 structure in all cases.
5329
5330 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5331 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5332 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5333 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5334
533518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5336 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5337 domain name.
5338
533919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5340 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5341
534220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5343 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5344
534521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5346 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5347 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5348
534922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5350 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5351 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5352
535323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5354 the book and for uniformity.
5355
535624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5357
535825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5359 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5360 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5361 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5362 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5363 non-existent command as the problem.
5364
536526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5366 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5367 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5368
536927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5370
537128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5372 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5373 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5374
537529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5376 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5377 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5378 timestamps using strftime().
5379
538030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5381 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5382
538332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5384 transport-time rewrites.
5385
538633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5387 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5388 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5389 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5390
539134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5392 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5393
539435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5395 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5396 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5397 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5398 comma and a space.
5399
540036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5401 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5402 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5403 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5404 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5405 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5406 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5407
540837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5409 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5410 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5411 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5412 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5413
541438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5415 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5416 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5417 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5418 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5419 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5420 remaining text gets split now.
5421
542239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5423 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5424 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5425 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5426
542740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5428 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5429 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5430 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5431 $return_path.
5432
543341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5434 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5435 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5436 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5437 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5438 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5439 passed through if needed.
5440
544142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5442 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5443 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5444 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5445 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5446 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5447
544843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5449 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5450 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5451 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5452 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5453
545444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5455 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5456 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5457 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5458 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5459
546045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5461 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5462 noticed.
5463
546446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5465 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5466 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5467 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5468 mayhem of various kinds.
5469
547047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5471 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5472 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5473 the right test for positive values.
5474
547548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5476 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5477 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5478 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5479 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5480 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5481 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5482 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5483 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5484 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5485 envelope.
5486
548749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5488 module.
5489
549050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5491 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5492 forbidding it.
5493
549451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5495 the existing equality matching.
5496
549752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5498 dealing with inode numbers.
5499
550053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5501 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5502 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5503
550454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5505 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5506 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5507 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5508 local_scan().
5509
551055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5511 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5512 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5513 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5514 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5515 relay addresses has also been removed.
5516
551756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5518
551957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5520 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5521 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5522
552358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5524 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5525 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5526 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5527 processing applies to CR:
5528
5529 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5530 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5531
5532 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5533 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5534 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5535 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5536
553759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5538 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5539 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5540
554160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5542 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5543 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5544 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5545 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5546 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5547 arisen.
5548
554961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5550 program routers.
5551
555262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5553 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5554 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5555 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5556 adds:
5557
5558 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5559
5560 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5561
5562 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5563
556463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5565 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5566 not considered personal.
5567
556864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5569
557065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5571
557266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5573
557467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5575 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5576 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5577 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5578 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5579 header lines, and spool format errors.
5580
558168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5582 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5583 for more flexibility.
5584
558569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5586 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5587 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5588
558970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5590 Sabourenkov.
5591
559271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5593 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5594 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5595 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5596 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5597 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5598 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5599 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5600 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5601
560272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5603 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5604 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5605 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5606 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5607 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5608 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5609
561073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5611 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5612 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5613
561474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5615 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5616 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5617 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5618 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5619 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5620 instead of killing the process with assert().
5621
562275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5623 than Unicode encoding.
5624
562576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5626 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5627 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5628 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5629
563077. Added process_log_path.
5631
563278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5633 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5634
563579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5636 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5637
563880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5639 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5640 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5641
564281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5643 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5644 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5645 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5646 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5647 were applied:
5648
5649 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5650 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5651 as invalid.
5652
565382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5654 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5655 they will be used during message reception.
5656
5657
5658Exim version 4.20
5659-----------------
5660
5661The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5662
5663****