GnuTLS: avoid using OCSP on buggy library versions. Bug 1664
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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11JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
12 expanded.
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14JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
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16JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
17 it.
18
01a4a5c5 19JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 20 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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21 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
22 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
23
cb1d7830 24JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 25 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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26 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 28JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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29 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
30 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
31 TLS connections
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33JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
34 sites use this now.
35
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36JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
37 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
38 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
39 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
40 have a dsn_lasthop option.
41
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42JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
43 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 44 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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46JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
47
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48JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
49 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
50
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51JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
52 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
53
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54JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
55 /defer_ok option.
56
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57JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
58 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
59
fd4d8871 60JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 61 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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62 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
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64JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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65 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
66 specify a port-range.
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68JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
69 timeout value per server.
70
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71JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
72 now have the list separator specified.
73
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74JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
75 option values.
76
82c0c8ea 77JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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78 under OpenSSL.
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80JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
81
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82JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
83 rather than the verbs used.
84
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85JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
86 from 255 to 1024 chars.
87
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88JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
89
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90HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
91 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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93JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
94 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
95
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96HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
97 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
98
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99JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
100
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101JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
102
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103JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
104 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
105 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
106 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
107
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108JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
109
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110JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
111 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
112
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113JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
114 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
115
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116JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
117
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118JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
119
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120JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
121
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122JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
123 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
124
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125JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
126 added for tls authenticator.
127
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131TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
132 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
133 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
134 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
135 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
136 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
137 the script parsing/test process like normal.
138
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139TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
140 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
141 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
142 function when detected.
143
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144JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
145 cause callback expansion.
146
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147TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
148 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
149 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
150 instead of bool when processing it.
151
0f06b4f2 152JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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153 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
154
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155JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
156
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157JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
158
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159TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
160
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161TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
162 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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164JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
165 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
166 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
167 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
168 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
169 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
170
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171JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
172 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
173 exceeded it.
174
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175JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
176 version 3.3.6 or later.
177
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178JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
179 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
180 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 181 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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182 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
183 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
184 option is defined.
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186TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
187 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
188
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189JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
190 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
191 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
192 matches.
193
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194JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
195 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
196 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
197
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198JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
199 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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200
201JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
202 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
203 syntax errors.
204
3394b36a 205JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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207JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
208 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
209
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210TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
211 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
212 tarball.
213
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214JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
215
216JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
217 Bug 1561.
218
219JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
220 output list separator was used.
221
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225TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
226 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
227 return.
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229JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
230 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
231
232JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
233
234TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 235 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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240
241TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
242
243 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
244 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
245 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
246 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
247 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
248 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
249
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250TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
251 utilities have not been installed.
252
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253JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
254 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
255
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256TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
257 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
258
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259TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
260 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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261 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
262 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 263
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264JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
265
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266TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
267 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
268
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269PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
270 not dns_use_dnssec.
271
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272JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
273
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274TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
275 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
276 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
277
8ddef691 278TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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279 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
280 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
281 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
282 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 283 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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285JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
286
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287JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
288 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
289
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290JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
291 failed delivery.
292
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293JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
294
511a6c14 295JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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297JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
298 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 299
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300JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
301 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
302
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303TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
304
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305JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
306
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307JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
308 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
309
310 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
311 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
312 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
313
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314TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
315 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
316 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
317 analysis.
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319JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
320
8c51eead 321JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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322 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
323 lookup).
8c51eead 324
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325TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
326 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
327 Schlichting.
35aba663 328
fd3b6a4a 329JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 330 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 331
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332TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
333 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
334
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335JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
336
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337TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
338 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
339 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
340
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341JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
342 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
343
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344JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
345 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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346 hosts_request_ocsp.
347
ed3bba5f 348JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 349 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 350 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 351
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352JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
353
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354TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
355 Christian Aistleitner.
356
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357JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
358
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359TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
360 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
361
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362JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
363 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
364
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365JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
366 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
367
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368TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
369 support and error reporting did not work properly.
370
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371TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
372 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
373
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374TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
375 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
376 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
377
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378JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
379
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380PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
381 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
382 Jasper Wallace.
383
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384JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
385
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386TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
387 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
388 CVE-2014-2972
389
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394PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
395
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396PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
397 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
398
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399PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
400 by GnuTLS.
401
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402PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
403 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
404 routines.
405
13363eba 406PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 407
66645890 408PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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409 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
410 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
411 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
412 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 413
a3fb9793 414PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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415 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
416 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
417 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 418 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 419 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 420
d27f98fe 421TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 422
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423TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
424
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425TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
426 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
427
ae0e32ee 428TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 429 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 430 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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432TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 433
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434TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
435
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436TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
437 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
438
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439JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
440
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441JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
442
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443PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
444
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445NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
446 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 447
585121e2 448JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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450PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
451 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
452 function.
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454PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
455 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
456
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457JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
458 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
459 "acl = name arg..."
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461JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
462
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463JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
464
ea722490 465JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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466 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
467
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468JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
469 Bugzilla 884.
470
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471JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
472 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
473
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474JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
475 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
476
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477PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
478 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 479 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 480
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481JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
482 authenticators.
483
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484JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
485 for control.
486
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487PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
488
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489PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
490 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
491 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
492 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
493
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494TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
495
496 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
497 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
498 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
499 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
500 the retry rules.
501
502 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
503 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
504 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
505
506 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
507 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
508 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
509 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
510
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511 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
512 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
513 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
514 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
515 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
516 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
517 delivery, as in LMTP.
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518
519 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
520 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
521
326cdc37
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522TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
523
524 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
525
526 Resent-From: f
527
528 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
529 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
530 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
531 username as equal to the username.
532
533 This change corrects that bug.
534
f62514b3
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535GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
536 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
537 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
538
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539TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
540
14c7b357
PP
541PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
542 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
543 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
544 NULL dereference and crash.
545
94eaf700
PP
546JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
547
6f5a440a
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548PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
549 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
550 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
551
514ee161
SC
552SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
553
fd98a5c6
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554JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
555 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
556 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
557 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
558 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
559 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
560 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
561 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
562 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
563 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
564 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
565
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566PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
567 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
568
ff284120
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569PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
570 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
571 Bugzilla 880.
572
26e72755
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573PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
574 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
575 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
576 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
577 an empty string is now equivalent.
578
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579PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
580 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
581 not performing validation itself.
582
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583PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
584 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
585
fcc8e047
JH
586JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
587 Bugzilla 321, 823.
588
7142daca
PP
589TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
590
8c020188
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591PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
592 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
593 other false fix of the same issue.
594 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
595 Bugzilla 1363.
596
d13cdd30
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597PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
598 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
599
e2fbf4a2
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600PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
601 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
602 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
603
f4c1088b
PP
604PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
605 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
606 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
607
c5c2182f
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608TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
609
73431ca9
JH
610JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
611
2d07a215
TL
612TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
613 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
614
a30a8861
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615TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
616 Alexander Miroch.
617
33382dd9
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618TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
619 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
620 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
621 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
622 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 623
046172e6
TL
624TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
625 the src/util/ subdirectory.
626
581d7bee 627TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 628 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
629 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
630
631TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
632 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
633 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
634 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
635
237b2cf2
TL
636TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
637
9fc5a352
TL
638TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
639 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
640 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 641
b10e4ec2
TL
642TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
643
e2cebd74
TL
644TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
645 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
646 interaction.
647
648TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
649 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
650
2519e60d
TL
651TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
652 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
653
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PP
655Exim version 4.80.1
656-------------------
657
658PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
659 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 660 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 661
ea722490 662
b1770b6e 663Exim version 4.80
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664-----------------
665
666PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
667 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
668 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
669
23c7e742
NM
670NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
671
b322aac8
NM
672NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
673 improved.
674
4a891427
NM
675NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
676
c1e794ba 677PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 678
97753960
PP
679PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
680
681PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
682 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
683
df6303fa
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684PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
685 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
686
7e6a8985
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687PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
688 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
689
f1e05cc7 690PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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691 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
692 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 693
4c287009
PP
694PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
695
b98bb9ac
PP
696PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
697 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
698
4a6a987a
PP
699PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
700
c45dd180 701PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 702
7db8d074
PP
703PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
704 non-compliant senders.
705 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
706
eae0036b 707NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
708 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
709 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
710
dec5017e
PP
711PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
712 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
713 in spool file corruption.
714
c80c5570
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715PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
716 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
717 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
718 "Got SSL error 2".
719
076b11e2
PP
720TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
721 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
722 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
723
5407bfff
JH
724JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
725 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
726
9e45c72b
PP
727JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
728
e74376d8
PP
729PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
730 diagnostics.
731 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
732
da3ad30d
PP
733PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
734 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
735 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
736
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737PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
738 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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739 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
740 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 741
ef840681
PP
742PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
743 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
744
5bfb4cdf
PP
745PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
746 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
747 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
748 resolver implementation change.
749
c6e95d22
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750PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
751 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
752
9cbad13b
PP
753PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
754
9ee44efb
PP
755PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
756
6a6084f8
PP
757PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
758 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
759
12dd53c7
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760PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
761 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
762
9e45c72b 763JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
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764 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
765
17c76198
PP
766PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
767 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
768 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
769 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 770 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 771
53947857 772PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 773
eae0036b 774PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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PP
775 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
776 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 777
9e45c72b 778JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 779
7390e768
PP
780PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
781 read-only, out of scope).
782 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
783
08488c86
PP
784PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
785 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
786 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
787 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
788
6475bd82
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789PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
790
81f91683
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791PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
792 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
793 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
794 real issues in debug logging.
795
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796PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
797 assignment on my part. Fixed.
798
3375e053
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799PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
800 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
801 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
802
803PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
804 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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805 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
806 problems.
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9d26b8c0
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808PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
809 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
810
57eb9e91 811PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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812 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
813 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
814 needs to override this, it can.
815
16880d1a
PP
816PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
817 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
818 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
819
a799883d
PP
820PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
821 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
822 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
823 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
824
3ecab157 825PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 826
0599f9cf 827
867fcbf5
PP
828Exim version 4.77
829-----------------
830
831PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
832 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
833
f1a29782
TF
834TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
835
ab42bd23
TK
836TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
837 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 838
0ca0cf52
TF
839TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
840 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
841
921b12ca
TF
842TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
843 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
844 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
845
846 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
847 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
848 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
849 not safe for signals.
850
851 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
852 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
853 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
854 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
855 exiwhat.
856
c99ce5c9
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857TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
858
859 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
860 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
861 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
862 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
863 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
864
865 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
866 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
867 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
868 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
869 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
870 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
871
872 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
873 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
874 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
875 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
876
877 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
878 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
879 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
880 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
881
882 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
883 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
884 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
885 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
886 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
887 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
888 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
889 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
890 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
891
892 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
893 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
894 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
895 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
896
897 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
898 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
899 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
900 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
901 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
902 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
903 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
904 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
905 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
906 details in the main documentation.
907
3634fc25
TF
908TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
909
792e8a19
TF
910TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
911
5901f0ab
TF
912TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
913 repository when doing development or release builds.
914
7f2a2a43
PP
915PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
916 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 917
061b7ebd
PP
918PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
919 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
920 Bugzilla 97.
921
e12f8c32
PP
922PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
923
9e949f00 924PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
925 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
926
927PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
928 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 929
555ae6af 930PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
931 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
932
933PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
934 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 935
6f7fe114
PP
936PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
937 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
938
c566dd90
PP
939PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
940 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
941 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
942 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 943
d6cc7c78 944PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
945 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
946 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
947
0d0e4455
PP
948PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
949
3399bb60 950PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
951
952PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
953 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
954
0ca0cf52 955
10906672
PP
956Exim version 4.76
957-----------------
958
959PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
960
754a0503
PP
961PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
962 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
963
c0c7b2da
PP
964PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
965
e97d1f08
PP
966PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
967
084c1d8c
PP
968PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
969 Bugzilla 1098.
970
4e7ee012
PP
971PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
972 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 973
c8d52a00
PP
974TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
975 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
976
54e7ce4a
PP
977PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
978 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
979
5ee6f336
PP
980PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
981 Bugzilla 1104.
982
c8d52a00 983TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
984 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
985
986TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
987 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
988 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
989 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
990
991PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
992 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 993
10906672 994
aa097c4c
NM
995Exim version 4.75
996-----------------
997
4c9ef03a 998NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
999 Bugzilla 1073
1000
7f3d9eff
TF
1001TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1002 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1003 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1004
159f52d2
TF
1005TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1006 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1007
0cc9542a
PP
1008PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1009 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1010 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1011
f7274286
PP
1012PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1013 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1014
7b797365
PP
1015PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1016 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1017
caacae52
NM
1018NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1019 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1020
09dcaba9
NM
1021NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1022 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1023
bc19a55b
PP
1024PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1025 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1026
bd4c9759
NM
1027NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1028 Fixes bug 943.
1029
b72aab72
PP
1030PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1031 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1032
2fe76745
PP
1033PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1034 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1035
76aa570c
PP
1036PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1037 SQL string expansion failure details.
1038 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1039
f1e5fef5
PP
1040PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1041 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1042
4d805ee9
PP
1043PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1044 extern declarations in function scope.
1045 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1046
cd59ab18
PP
1047PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1048 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1049 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1050 a kernel bug).
1051
332f5cf3
PP
1052PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1053 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1054
29cfeb94
PP
1055PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1056 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1057
660242ad
PP
1058PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1059 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1060
bc4bc4c5
PP
1061PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1062 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1063
2e64baa9
NM
1064NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1065 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1066 Dennis Davis.
1067
bddd7526
PP
1068PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1069
6bac1a9a
PP
1070PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1071
552193f0
NM
1072NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1073 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1074
1b587e48
TF
1075TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1076 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1077
aa097c4c 1078
8c07b69f
TF
1079Exim version 4.74
1080-----------------
1081
1082TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1083 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1084
c0ea85ab
TF
1085TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1086 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1087
0761d44e
TF
1088TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1089
0a349494
PP
1090DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1091 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1092 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1093
1094PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1095 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1096 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1097
fea24b2e
PP
1098PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1099 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1100 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1101 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1102
6545de78
PP
1103PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1104 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1105 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1106 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1107
1670ef10
PP
1108PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1109 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1110 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1111 arbitrary files.
1112
c0886197
PP
1113PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1114 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1115
b7487bce
PP
1116PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1117 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1118 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1119 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1120 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1121
8c07b69f 1122
97fd1e48 1123Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1124-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1125
1126PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1127 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1128 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1129
6901c596
PP
1130PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1131 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1132
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1133JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1134
77bb000f
PP
1135PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1136
a29e5231
PP
1137PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1138
ec5a0394 1139PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1140
55c75993
PP
1141PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1142
453a6645 1143PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1144 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1145 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1146 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1147
8544e77a
PP
1148PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1149 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1150 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1151 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1152 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1153
83e029d5
PP
1154PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1155
ed7f7860
PP
1156PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1157
7d9f747b
PP
1158PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1159
4b2241d2
PP
1160PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1161
10385c15
PP
1162PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1163
dbc4b90d
PP
1164PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1165
532be449
PP
1166PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1167
6a8de854 1168PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1169 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1170 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1171
5dc43717
JJ
1172JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1173
1174JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1175 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1176
3346ab01
PP
1177PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1178 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1179
491fab4c
PP
1180PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1181 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1182 Notification from John Horne.
1183
13eb9497
PP
1184PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1185 compatible.
1186
1187PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1188 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1189 it normally works.
1190
7f36d675
DW
1191DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1192 access.
1193
c1d94452
DW
1194DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1195 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1196 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1197
e2f5dc15
DW
1198DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1199 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1200 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1201 configuration file.
1202
cd25e41d
DW
1203DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1204 option (effectively making it always true).
1205
261dc43e
DW
1206DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1207 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1208
fa32850b
DW
1209DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1210 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1211
79d4bc3d
PP
1212PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1213 run-time user, instead of root.
1214
43236f35 1215PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1216 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1217
fb08281f
DW
1218DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1219 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1220 arguments.
3346ab01 1221
74935b98
DW
1222DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1223 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1224 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1225
90b6341f
DW
1226DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1227
57730b52
ML
1228NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1229
66581d1e 1230
465e92cf
JJ
1231Exim version 4.72
1232-----------------
1233
453a6645
PP
1234JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1235 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1236 typos
465e92cf 1237
453a6645
PP
1238JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1239 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1240 (Finput)
edae0343 1241
9bd3e22c
NM
1242NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1243 Patch from Alain Williams
1244
bb576ff7
NM
1245NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1246
5a1a5845
NM
1247NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1248 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1249
981a9fad
NM
1250NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1251 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1252
7fc497ee
NM
1253NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1254
1a41defa
JJ
1255JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1256
a466095c 1257NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1258 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1259
94a6bd0b
NM
1260TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1261
1262TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1263
1264MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1265 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1266 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1267
c1b141a8
NM
1268NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1269 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1270
b26eacf1 1271NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1272 Patch by Simon Arlott
1273
179c5980 1274PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1275 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1276
9bd3e22c 1277
7c6d71af
NM
1278Exim version 4.71
1279-----------------
1280
7d9f747b 1281TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1282
f013fb92
NM
1283NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1284
0eb8eedd
NM
1285NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1286
663ee6d9
NM
1287NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1288
177ebd9b
NM
1289NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1290
7c6d71af 1291
210f147e
NM
1292Exim version 4.70
1293-----------------
1294
cdd3bb85 1295TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1296 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1297
1298TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1299 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1300 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1301
1302TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1303 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1304 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1305
1306TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1307 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1308
210f147e
NM
1309NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1310 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1311 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1312 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1313
deafd5b3
NM
1314NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1315 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1316 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1317
089793a4
TF
1318TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1319
5f16ca82
TF
1320TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1321
dae9d94e 1322NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1323 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1324
7d9f747b 1325NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1326
06864c44
TF
1327TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1328 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1329 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1330 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1331
65a7d8c3 1332NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1333 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1334
23510047 1335TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1336
7d9f747b 1337NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1338
7d8eec3a 1339NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1340 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1341
89dec7b6
TF
1342TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1343 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1344
a99de90c
TF
1345TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1346 that they are available at delivery time.
1347
e2803e40
TF
1348TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1349
7199e1ee
TF
1350TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1351 incoming_port log selectors.
1352
e276e04b
TF
1353TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1354 setting expands to an empty string.
1355
ce552449 1356NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1357 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1358
e765a0f1 1359NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1360 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1361
4f054c63 1362NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1363 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1364
7d9f747b
PP
1365NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1366 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1367
7d9f747b
PP
1368NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1369 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1370
b52bc06e 1371NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1372 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1373
447de4b0
NM
1374NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1375
4c69d561 1376NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1377 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1378
d5c39246 1379NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1380 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1381
0b23848a
TK
1382TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1383
8f3414a1 1384NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1385 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1386
fb6f955d
NM
1387NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1388
1389NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1390
7d9f747b
PP
1391NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1392 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1393
7d9f747b
PP
1394NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1395 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1396
7d9f747b
PP
1397NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1398 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1399
7d9f747b
PP
1400NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1401 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1402
7d9f747b
PP
1403NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1404 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1405
7d9f747b
PP
1406NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1407 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1408
7d9f747b
PP
1409NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1410 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1411
7d9f747b 1412NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1413 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1414
7d9f747b 1415NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1416
7d9f747b
PP
1417NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1418 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1419
7d9f747b 1420NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1421
7d9f747b 1422NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1423
7d9f747b 1424NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1425
7d9f747b 1426NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1427
17792b53 1428NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1429 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1430
7d9f747b
PP
1431NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1432 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1433
91576cec 1434NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1435 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1436
7d9f747b
PP
1437NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1438 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1439
7d9f747b 1440NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1441
7d9f747b 1442NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1443
7d9f747b 1444NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1445
7d9f747b 1446NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1447
deafd5b3 1448
47db1125
NM
1449Exim version 4.69
1450-----------------
1451
4b3504d0
TK
1452TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1453 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1454 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1455
1456 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1457 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1458 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1459 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1460 build errors in sieve.c.
1461
81ea09ca
NM
1462NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1463 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1464 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1465
f13cddcb
SC
1466SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1467
7d9f747b 1468NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1469
7d9f747b 1470NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1471
7d9f747b 1472NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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1473
1474
eb4c0de6
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1475Exim version 4.68
1476-----------------
1477
1478PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1479
6a3bceb1
PH
1480PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1481 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1482 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1483 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1484 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1485 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1486 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1487 for iplsearch lookups.
1488
1489 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1490 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1491 previously such lookups could never work.
1492
1493 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1494 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1495 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1496
2e30fa9d
TK
1497TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1498 version.
1499
0806a9c5
MH
1500MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1501 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1502 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1503 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1504 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1505 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1506
ae276964
TK
1507TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1508 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1509
0f2cbd1b
MH
1510MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1511 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1512 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1513 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1514 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1515 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1516
2b85bce7
PH
1517PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1518 local_scan API.
1519
93655c46
PH
1520PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1521
6c512171
PH
1522PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1523 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1524 encrypted.
1525
1526PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1527 by clients under certain conditions.
1528
aa6dc513
PH
1529PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1530 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1531
a96603a0
PH
1532PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1533
8f240103
PH
1534PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1535 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1536
1537PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1538
d677b2f2
PH
1539PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1540
d52120f2
PH
1541PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1542
64f2600a
PH
1543PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1544 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1545
8669f003
PH
1546PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1547
a4dc33a8
PH
1548PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1549 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1550
d6a60c0f
PH
1551PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1552
8f128379
PH
1553PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1554
8932dffe
PH
1555PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1556 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1557 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1558 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1559
ddea74fa 1560PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1561 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1562 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1563
ddea74fa 1564PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1565 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1566
ddea74fa
PH
1567PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1568
ce9f225c
PH
1569PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1570
19897d52
PH
1571PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1572
bc64a74d
PH
1573PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1574 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1575 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1576
eb4c0de6 1577
b4ed4da0
PH
1578Exim version 4.67
1579-----------------
1580
22ad45c9
MH
1581MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1582 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1583 Jan Srzednicki.
1584
b4ed4da0
PH
1585PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1586 issue a MAIL command.
1587
431b7361
PH
1588PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1589
1590 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1591
1592 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1593 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1594 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1595 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1596 item. This has been fixed.
1597
1598PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1599 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1600
83da1223
PH
1601PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1602 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1603
54fc8428
PH
1604PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1605 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1606 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1607
34c5e8dd
SC
1608SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1609
bbe15da8
PH
1610PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1611 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1612 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1613 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1614 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1615
0e8a9471
MH
1616MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1617 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1618 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1619
f0872424
PH
1620PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1621 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1622 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1623 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1624
b01dd148
PH
1625PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1626
6bf342e1
PH
1627PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1628
273f34d0
PH
1629PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1630 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1631 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1632 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1633 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1634
cf8b11a5
PH
1635PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1636
41c7c167
PH
1637PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1638 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1639 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1640 values).
1641
9c57cbc0
PH
1642PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1643
f3f065bb
PH
1644PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1645
047bdd8c
PH
1646PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1647
0ce9abe6
PH
1648PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1649
0e22dfd1
PH
1650PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1651
4c590bd1
PH
1652PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1653 no_callout_flush is set.
1654
09945f1e
PH
1655PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1656 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1657 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1658 fixed.
1659
c51b8e75
PH
1660PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1661
e28326d8
PH
1662PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1663 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1664 other ACL rejections are.
1665
75b1493f
PH
1666PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1667 with slight modification.
1668
7c5214ec
PH
1669PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1670 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1671
4311097e
PH
1672PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1673 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1674 connection.
1675
29f89cad
PH
1676PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1677 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1678
5e687460
SC
1679SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1680
c3611384
PH
1681PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1682 expansion side effects.
1683
5a11a7b4
PH
1684PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1685 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1686 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1687 be the same.
1688
0e20aff9
MH
1689MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1690 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1691 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1692
ca86f471
PH
1693PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1694 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1695 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1696 were accidentally chopped off.
1697
a14e5636
PH
1698PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1699 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1700 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1701 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1702 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1703 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1704 pipelining has not been advertised.
1705
ec95d1a6
PH
1706PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1707
42855d71
PH
1708PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1709 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1710 This has been fixed.
1711
57c2c631
PH
1712PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1713 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1714 reported on Solaris.
1715
58c01c94
PH
1716PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1717 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1718 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1719 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1720 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1721 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1722 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1723
dee5a20a
PH
1724PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1725 cpus.
1726
d2ee6114
PH
1727PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1728
b2d5182b
PH
1729PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1730
79749a79
PH
1731PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1732 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1733 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1734 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1735 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1736 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1737
c456d9bb
PH
1738PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1739 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1740 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1741 host_all_ignored option.
1742
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PH
1743PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1744 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1745 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1746 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1747 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1748 is what is supposed to happen).
1749
ebeaf996
PH
1750PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1751 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1752 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1753 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1754 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1755 uses the Exim user.
1756
2679d413
PH
1757PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1758 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1759 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1760 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1761 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1762 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1763 users.
1764
84024b72
PH
1765PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1766
8005d38e
SC
1767SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1768 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1769 (Jez Hancock).
1770 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1771 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1772
3298c6c6
SC
1773SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1774
a43a27c5
PH
1775PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1776
58eb016e 1777PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1778 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1779 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1780 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1781 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1782 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1783 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1784 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1785 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1786 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1787 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1788
b43a74ea
PH
1789PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1790 advertised in response to EHLO.
1791
b4ed4da0 1792
5dd1517f
PH
1793Exim version 4.66
1794-----------------
1795
1796PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1797 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1798
1799 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1800 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1801
1802 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1803 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1804 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1805
1806 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1807 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1808 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1809 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1810 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1811
1812
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1813Exim version 4.65
1814-----------------
1815
1816TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1817 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1818 versions. (#438)
1819
d6066548
MH
1820MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1821 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1822 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1823
4362ff0d
PH
1824PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1825 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1826 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1827 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1828 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1829 rather than extend the field.
1830
93cfa765 1831
944e9e9c
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1832Exim version 4.64
1833-----------------
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1835TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1836 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1837 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1838 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1839 these files.
1840
1841TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1842 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1843 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1844
1845TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1846 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1847 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1848
1849TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1850 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1851 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1852 in the field name.
1853
2b1c6e3a
PH
1854PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1855 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1856 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1857 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1858 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1859 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1860 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1861 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1862 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1863 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1864 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1865
1f872c80
PH
1866PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1867 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1868
1869PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1870 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1871 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1872 ignores EPIPE as well.
1873
d203e649
PH
1874PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1875 (quoted-printable decoding).
1876
cc2ed8f7 1877PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1878 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1879
ddfcd446
PH
1880PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1881
d45b1de8
PH
1882PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1883
1884PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1885
38a0a95f 1886PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1887 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1888
a2405d83
JJ
1889JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1890 in 4.64-PH/09.
1891
1892JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1893 miscellaneous code fixes
1894
6ea85e9a
PH
1895PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1896 rejections.
1897
26da7e20
PH
1898PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1899 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1900 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1901 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1902 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1903 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1904 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1905 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1906
14aa5a05 1907PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1908 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1909 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1910 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1911 function.
1912 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1913 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1914 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1915 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1916 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1917 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1918 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1919 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1920 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1921
ff75a1f7
PH
1922PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1923 decoding.
1924
e6f6568e
PH
1925PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1926 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1927 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1928 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1929 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1930 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1931 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1932 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1933
d6f6e0dc
PH
1934PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1935 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1936 list.
1937
322050c2
PH
1938PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1939 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1940 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1941 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1942 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1943 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1944 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1945 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1946 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1947 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1948 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1949 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1950 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1951
08955dd3
PH
1952PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1953 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1954 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1955 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1956 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1957 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1958 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1959
1eccaa59
PH
1960PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1961 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1962 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1963 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1964 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1965 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1966 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1967 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1968 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1969 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1970
602e59e5
PH
1971PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1972 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1973 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1974 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1975 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1976
411ef850
PH
1977PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1978 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1979 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1980 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1981 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1982 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1983 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1984
7befa435
PH
1985PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1986 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1987 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1988 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1989 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1990 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1991 been verified.
1992
48da4259 1993PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1994 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1995 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1996 and authorization.)
1997
48da4259
PH
1998PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1999 if any retry times were supplied.
2000
d1d5595c
PH
2001PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2002 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2003 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2004
0ef732d9
PH
2005PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2006
328895cc
PH
2007PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2008
fd700877
PH
2009PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2010 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2011 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2012 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2013 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2014 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2015
8dce1a6f
PH
2016PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2017 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2018
17af4a17
PH
2019PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2020 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2021 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2022
2023PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2024 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2025 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2026 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2027 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2028 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2029 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2030 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2031 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2032
2033 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2034 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2035 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2036 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2037 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2038 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2039 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2040 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2041 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2042
2043 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2044 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2045 hammering the server.
2046
c1114884
PH
2047PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2048 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2049
7a0743eb
PH
2050PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2051
0d85fa3f
PH
2052PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2053 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2054 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2055
1bf43b78
PH
2056PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2057 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2058 one case where this was not true.
2059
520de300
PH
2060PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2061 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2062 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2063 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2064 fails.
2065
48c7f9e2
PH
2066PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2067 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2068 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2069 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2070 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2071 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2072 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2073 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2074 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2075 smtp transport.
2076
99ea1c86
PH
2077PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2078 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2079 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2080 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2081
a2042e78
PH
2082PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2083 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2084
4fbcfc2e
PH
2085PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2086 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2087 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2088
aa41d2de
PH
2089PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2090
af561417
PH
2091PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2092
3cc66b45
PH
2093PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2094
194cc0e4
PH
2095PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2096 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2097 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2098 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2099
a401ddaa
PH
2100PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2101 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2102
4e88a19f
PH
2103PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2104 be meaningful with "accept".
2105
d7d7b289
SC
2106SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2107 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2108
2109SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2110 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2111 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2112
2113SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2114 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2115 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2116 there is data to show.
2117 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2118
2119SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2120 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2121 as well as the number of messages.
2122
2123SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2124 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2125 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2126
2127SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2128 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2129 have a flag are now skipped.
2130
2131SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2132 Added the -emptyok flag.
2133
2134SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2135 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2136
0ea2a468
JJ
2137JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2138 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2139 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2140
2141JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2142 match 4.64-PH/13
2143
2144JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2145 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2146
2147JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2148
2149JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2150 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2151
8a10f5a4
PH
2152PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2153
30e18802
PH
2154PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2155 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2156 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2157 contravention of the specifications.
2158
55728a4f
PH
2159PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2160 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2161 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2162
d7837193
PH
2163PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2164 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2165 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2166
87054a31
PH
2167PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2168
ea2c01d2
MH
2169MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2170 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2171 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2172 some point in the past.
2173
e4fa6968
PH
2174PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2175 transport during callout processing was broken.
2176
56f5d9bd
PH
2177PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2178 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2179
922e1c28
PH
2180PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2181 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2182
21eb6e72
PH
2183PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2184 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2185
a0540757
PH
2186PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2187
944e9e9c 2188
478be7b0
SC
2189Exim version 4.63
2190-----------------
2191
2192SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2193 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2194
2195SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2196 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2197 there is data to show.
2198 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2199
2200SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2201 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2202
2b965a65
TF
2203TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2204 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2205
45b91596
PH
2206TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2207 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2208
c59f5781
TF
2209TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2210 submissions from trusted users.
2211
90fc3069
TF
2212TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2213 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2214
6083aca0
TF
2215TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2216 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2217 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2218 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2219 there is now a framework to start from.
2220
765b530f
PH
2221PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2222 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2223 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2224
4e167a8c
PH
2225PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2226
4608d683
PH
2227PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2228
b8dc3e4a
PH
2229PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2230
5418e93b
PH
2231PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2232 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2233 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2234
b4a9bda2
PH
2235PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2236 libradius.
2237
45b91596
PH
2238PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2239 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2240 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2241
5547e2c5
PH
2242PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2243 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2244 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2245 its arguments.
2246
dbcef0ea
PH
2247PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2248 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2249 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2250 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2251 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2252
25257489
PH
2253PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2254 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2255
c816d124
PH
2256PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2257
a9ccd69a
PH
2258PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2259 operations in malware.c.
2260
75fa1910
PH
2261PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2262 signatures.
2263
a7d7aa58
PH
2264PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2265 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2266 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2267 all.
2268
42119b09
PH
2269PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2270 statements to "add_header".
2271
41609df5
PH
2272PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2273 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2274
a5bd321b
PH
2275PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2276 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2277 latter.
2278
e85a7ad5 2279PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2280 so that it is now:
2281
e85a7ad5
PH
2282 ${if or { \
2283 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2284 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2285 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2286 }{no}{yes}}
2287
e85a7ad5
PH
2288 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2289 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2290
d8fe1c03
PH
2291PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2292 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2293
16282d2b
PH
2294PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2295 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2296 any possible encoding problems.
2297
35d40a98
PH
2298PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2299 but not after initializing Perl.
2300
034d99ab
PH
2301PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2302 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2303 apparently, which is not desirable.
2304
6ec97b1b
PH
2305PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2306 queries.
2307
e22ca4ac
JJ
2308JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2309 --not options
2310
2311JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2312
33d73e3b
PH
2313PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2314 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2315 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2316 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2317
9ecb03f3
PH
2318PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2319 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2320 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2321
084efe8d
PH
2322PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2323 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2324 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2325 0.12.
2326
366fc9f0
PH
2327PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2328 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2329 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2330 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2331 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2332
c59f5781 2333
c887c79e
TF
2334Exim version 4.62
2335-----------------
2336
2337TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2338 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2339
1cce3af8
PH
2340PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2341 patch).
2342
afb3eaaf
PH
2343PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2344 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2345 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2346 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2347 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2348 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2349 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2350 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2351 451 error is used.
2352
e173618b
PH
2353PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2354
dd16e114
PH
2355PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2356 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2357 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2358
f7fd3850
PH
2359PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2360 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2361 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2362 odd errors.
2363
d87df92c
PH
2364PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2365 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2366
7e9f683d
PH
2367PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2368 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2369 option (which defaults to 0600).
2370
bfad5236
PH
2371PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2372
01c490df
PH
2373PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2374 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2375 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2376 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2377 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2378 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2379 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2380
d6629cdc
PH
2381PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2382
1cce3af8 2383
214e2000
PH
2384Exim version 4.61
2385-----------------
2386
2387PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2388 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2389 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2390 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2391 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2392 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2393 addresses as local.
2394
f9daeae0
PH
2395PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2396 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2397
7e66e54d
PH
2398PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2399
c8ea1597
PH
2400PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2401 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2402 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2403 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2404 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2405 grumble.
2406
911f6fde
PH
2407PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2408 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2409
47ca6d6c
PH
2410PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2411 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2412 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2413 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2414 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2415
ed0e9820
PH
2416PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2417 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2418 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2419 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2420
eff37e47
PH
2421PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2422 be the same on different OS.
2423
1921d2ea
PH
2424PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2425 testing.
2426
b3f69ca8
JJ
2427JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2428 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2429
2430JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2431 in 4.61-PH/06
2432
424a1c63
PH
2433PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2434 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2435 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2436 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2437 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2438 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2439 bounce message.
2440
7a100415
PH
2441PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2442 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2443 when Exim was called.
2444
19b9dc85
PH
2445PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2446 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2447
309bd837
PH
2448PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2449 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2450 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2451 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2452
59e82a2a
PH
2453PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2454 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2455 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2456 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2457 changes:
2458
2459 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2460 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2461 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2462
2463 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2464 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2465 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2466
9edc04ce
PH
2467PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2468 feature).
2469
1349e1e5
PH
2470PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2471 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2472 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2473 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2474 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2475 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2476 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2477 values from the SRV records were lost.
2478
ea49d0e1
PH
2479PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2480 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2481 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2482
064a94c9
PH
2483PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2484 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2485 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2486
727071f8
PH
2487PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2488 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2489 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2490 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2491 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2492 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2493 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2494 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2495 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2496 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2497
f78eb7c6
PH
2498PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2499 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2500 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2501
21c28500
PH
2502PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2503 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2504
2505PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2506 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2507 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2508 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2509 is given.
2510
1688f43b
PH
2511PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2512 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2513 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2514
2515PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2516 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2517 PH/23 above applies.
2518
9675b384
PH
2519PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2520 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2521 (for which there is an explicit test).
2522
6a3f1455
PH
2523PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2524
dac79d3e
PH
2525PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2526 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2527 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2528 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2529 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2530
5977a0b3
PH
2531PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2532 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2533 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2534 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2535
c91535f3
PH
2536PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2537 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2538 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2539
0d46a8c8
PH
2540PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2541
278c6e6c
PH
2542PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2543
2cbb4081
PH
2544PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2545 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2546 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2547
3eef829e
PH
2548PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2549 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2550 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2551 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2552 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2553
1ab95fa6
PH
2554PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2555 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2556 the message gets confusing).
2557
230205fc
PH
2558PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2559 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2560 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2561 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2562
75e0e026
PH
2563PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2564 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2565 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2566 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2567 same order.
2568
2569PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2570 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2571 the different processes.
2572
145396a6
PH
2573PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2574
3cd34f13
PH
2575PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2576
11121d3d
JJ
2577JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2578 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2579
2580JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2581 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2582
2583JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2584 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2585 messages matching specified criteria.
2586
8def5aaf
PH
2587PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2588
929ba01c
PH
2589PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2590 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2591
2632889e
PH
2592PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2593 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2594 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2595 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2596 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2597 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2598 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2599 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2600 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2601 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2602
944a9c55
PH
2603PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2604 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2605 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2606
4a23603b
PH
2607PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2608
4730f942
PH
2609PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2610 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2611 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2612 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2613 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2614 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2615 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2616 the variable.
2617
30dba1e6
PH
2618PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2619 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2620
382afc6b
PH
2621PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2622
a86229cf
PH
2623PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2624
50c99ba6
PH
2625PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2626
d35e429d
PH
2627PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2628 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2629 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2630 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2631 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2632 size of the count of files.
2633
f90d018c
PH
2634PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2635
75def545
PH
2636PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2637 used in LMTP mode:
2638
2639 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2640 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2641 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2642 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2643
2644 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2645 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2646 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2647
2648PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2649 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2650 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2651 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2652 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2653
c46782ef
PH
2654PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2655 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2656
71fafd95
PH
2657PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2658 will now be deprecated.
2659
2c5db4fd
PH
2660PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2661
9cf6b11a
JJ
2662JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2663 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2664 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2665
2666JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2667 with very large, slow to parse queues
2668
2669JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2670
2671JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2672
898d150f
PH
2673PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2674 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2675 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2676 SMTP output lines.
2677
46218253
PH
2678PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2679 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2680 Sieve code now uses this.
2681
e97957bc
PH
2682PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2683 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2684
81e509d7
PH
2685PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2686 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2687
3d240ff7
PH
2688PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2689
b37c4101
PH
2690PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2691 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2692 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2693 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2694 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2695
79378e0f
PH
2696PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2697 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2698 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2699 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2700
e49c7bb4
PH
2701PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2702
d114ec46
PH
2703PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2704
f3d7df6c
PH
2705PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2706 is preferred over IPv4.
2707
715ab376
PH
2708PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2709 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2710 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2711 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2712 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2713 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2714 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2715
6b31b150
PH
2716PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2717 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2718 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2719
2720PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2721
d515a917
PH
2722PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2723 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2724 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2725 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2726 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2727 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2728 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2729 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2730 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2731 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2732 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2733
9b8fadde
PH
2734PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2735 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2736 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2737
214e2000 2738
5de37277
PH
2739Exim version 4.60
2740-----------------
2741
cc38ddbf
PH
2742PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2743
2744 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2745 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2746
2747 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2748 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2749 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2750
72fdd6ae
PH
2751PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2752
2753 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2754 not a single digit.
2755
2756 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2757 string.
2758
2759 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2760 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2761 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2762 silly things.
2763
2764 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2765 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2766
2767 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2768 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2769
cb741023
PH
2770PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2771 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2772 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2773
f174f16e
PH
2774PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2775 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2776
c25242d7
PH
2777PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2778 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2779
2780 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2781
2782 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2783 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2784 this:
2785
2786 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2787
82c19f95
PH
2788PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2789 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2790 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2791 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2792 identical. For example:
2793
2794 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2795
2796 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2797 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2798 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2799
d7ffbc12
PH
2800PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2801 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2802 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2803 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2804
9f526266
PH
2805PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2806 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2807 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2808 message.
2809
87fcc8b9
PH
2810PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2811
2812 o fixes some comments
2813 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2814 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2815 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2816 and documents the missing references header update
2817
2818 and most important:
2819
2820 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2821 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2822 result)
2823
456682f5
PH
2824PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2825 Electronic Mail") by including:
2826
2827 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2828
2829 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2830 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2831 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2832 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2833 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2834
2835 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2836
2837 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2838
2839 The auto-replied keyword:
2840
2841 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2842 message by an automatic process,
2843
2844 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2845
2846 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2847 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2848
2849 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2850 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2851 other messages.
2852
3e46c1aa
PH
2853PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2854 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2855
49826d12
PH
2856PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2857
eba0c039
PH
2858PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2859 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2860 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2861
a0d6ba8a
PH
2862PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2863 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2864 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2865
f0917727
PH
2866PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2867 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2868 and treats the condition as false.
2869
096fee00
PH
2870PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2871
024bd3c2
PH
2872PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2873 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2874 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2875 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2876 not changing the active code.
2877
2878 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2879 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2880
2881 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2882 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2883
df199fec
PH
2884PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2885 (Bugzilla #53).
2886
d27f1df3
PH
2887PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2888 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2889 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2890 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2891 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2892 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2893 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2894 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2895 the text comparison.
2896
96776534
PH
2897PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2898 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2899 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2900 The same fix has been applied.
2901
5de37277 2902
9a799bc0
PH
2903Exim version 4.54
2904-----------------
2905
2906PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2907 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2908 It now does.
2909
99a4b039
PH
2910PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2911 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2912
2913PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2914
4b233853
PH
2915PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2916 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2917 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2918 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2919 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2920
8857ccfd
PH
2921TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2922 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2923 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2924 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2925 or /domain=).
2926
433a2980
PH
2927PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2928 testing suite.
2929
3e46c1aa 2930
9a799bc0 2931
e3a311ba
TK
2932Exim version 4.53
2933-----------------
2934
2935TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2936 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2937
13b685f9
PH
2938PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2939
395ff96d
PH
2940PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2941
5b68f6e4
PH
2942PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2943 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2944 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2945
1ab52c69
PH
2946PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2947 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2948 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2949
b07e6aa3
PH
2950PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2951 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2952 operating systems.
2953
254e032f
PH
2954PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2955 ${stat: expansion item.
2956
3af76a81
PH
2957PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2958 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2959
2548ba04
PH
2960PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2961 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2962 file for comments.
2963
b6c6011d
PH
2964PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2965
cf39cf57
PH
2966PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2967 setting.
2968
f1513293
PH
2969PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2970 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2971
727549a4
PH
2972TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2973
af46795e
PH
2974PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2975 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2976 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2977 the end of the subprocess.
2978
d7b47fd0
PH
2979PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2980 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2981 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2982 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2983 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2984
ee744174
JJ
2985JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2986
b582ab87
PH
2987TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2988
41a13e0a
PH
2989PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2990 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2991
f625cc5a
PH
2992PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2993
2994PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2995
21f7af35
PH
2996PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2997 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2998 HP-UX compiler.
2999
31480e42
PH
3000PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3001
2d280592
PH
3002PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3003 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3004 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3005
7cd1141b
PH
3006PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3007 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3008
3009PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3010 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3011
750af86e
PH
3012PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3013 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3014
3015 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3016 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3017
3018 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3019 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3020 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3021 contributed by a Radius user.
3022
3023PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3024 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3025
4304270b
TK
3026TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3027 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3028
750af86e
PH
3029PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3030 available.
3031
64ffc24f
PH
3032PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3033 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3034 received.
3035
5dd9625b
PH
3036PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3037 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3038 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3039 header lines when this was not necessary.
3040
5591031b
PH
3041PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3042
ba18e66a
PH
3043PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3044 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3045 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3046 exists".
3047
9cec981f
PH
3048PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3049 -bV or -d is used.
3050
aa2b5c79
PH
3051PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3052 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3053 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3054 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3055
48a53b7f
PH
3056PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3057
1c59d63b
PH
3058PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3059
671012da
TK
3060TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3061
1509d3a8
PH
3062PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3063
3064PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3065 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3066 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3067 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3068 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3069 settings.
3070
3071PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3072
2fe1a124
PH
3073PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3074 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3075 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3076 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3077 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3078 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3079 which is clearly wrong.
3080
8800895a
PH
3081PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3082
ccfdb010
PH
3083PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3084 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3085 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3086 subsequently added.
3087
1130bfb0
PH
3088PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3089 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3090
ebcb507f
PH
3091PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3092
c35e155c
PH
3093PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3094 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3095
95d1f782
PH
3096PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3097 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3098
fd6de02e
PH
3099PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3100 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3101
58de37c5
PH
3102PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3103 recipients, not senders.
3104
261cf466
TF
3105TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3106 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3107
3ee512ff
PH
3108PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3109
e08c430f
PH
3110PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3111
bef5a11f
PH
3112PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3113 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3114 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3115 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3116
7546de58
TF
3117TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3118
e5d5a95f
TF
3119TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3120 clock is set back in time.
3121
2e88a017
TF
3122TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3123 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3124
a5f65aa4
TF
3125TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3126 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3127
e7726cbf
PH
3128PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3129 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3130 (see PH/47 above).
3131
a7fdad5b
TF
3132TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3133 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3134 header rewrites.
3135
6af56900
PH
3136PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3137 type ("H").
3138
0925ede6
PH
3139PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3140
66afa403
TF
3141TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3142 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3143 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3144
0154e85a
TF
3145TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3146 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3147 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3148 helo verification defer as a failure.
3149
16f12c76
PH
3150PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3151 actual error message.
3152
bbe902f0 3153
e5a9dba6
PH
3154Exim version 4.52
3155-----------------
3156
3157TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3158
22c3b60b
PH
3159PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3160 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3161 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3162 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3163
06a9b4b5
PH
3164TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3165
c1ac6996
PH
3166PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3167 can still be requested.
3168
9c7a242c
PH
3169PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3170 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3171 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3172 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3173
87ba3f5f
PH
3174TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3175 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3176 circumstances, but probably never did.
3177
3178PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3179 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3180 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3181 in the header line.
3182
29aba418
TF
3183TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3184
fe0dab11
TF
3185TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3186 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3187
11d337a4
TK
3188TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3189
3190TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3191
415c8f3b
PH
3192PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3193 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3194 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3195 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3196 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3197 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3198
958541e9
PH
3199PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3200 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3201 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3202 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3203 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3204 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3205
c206415f
TK
3206TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3207 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3208
2a4be8f9
PH
3209PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3210 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3211
1cba11c5
SC
3212SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3213 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3214
3215SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3216
3217SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3218
3219SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3220
3221SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3222
3223SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3224
3225SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3226
1005d00e
TK
3227TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3228
3229TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3230 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3231 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3232
3233TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3234 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3235 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3236 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3237
9b4768fa
PH
3238PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3239 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3240 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3241
3242PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3243 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3244 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3245 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3246
0d7eb84a
PH
3247PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3248 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3249 to be made).
3250
3251PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3252 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3253 should work with maildirs and everything.
3254
40727bee
TK
3255TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3256 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3257
554d2369
TF
3258TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3259 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3260
1f922db1
PH
3261PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3262 function for BDB 4.3.
3263
ef213c3b
PH
3264PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3265
8ac170f3
PH
3266PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3267 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3268 involved.
3269
b1c749bb
PH
3270PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3271 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3272 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3273 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3274 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3275 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3276
4aac9b49
PH
3277PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3278 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3279 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3280 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3281 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3282 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3283 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3284 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3285
294520c8
TK
3286TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3287 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3288 details.
3289
5bd022fe
PH
3290PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3291 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3292
90e9ce59
PH
3293PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3294 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3295 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3296 test. It is now used for both.
3297
5ea81592
PH
3298PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3299 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3300 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3301 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3302 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3303 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3304
c6c2dc1d
PH
3305PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3306 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3307 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3308 string_vformat().
3309
fffffe4c
PH
3310PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3311 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3312 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3313
9a26b6b2
PH
3314PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3315 experimental DomainKeys support:
3316
3317 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3318 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3319 the control was given.
3320
3321 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3322
4aee0225
PH
3323PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3324
32d668a5
PH
3325PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3326
8187c3f3
PH
3327PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3328 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3329 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3330 db.h files).
3331
ff790e47 3332PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3333 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3334 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3335 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3336 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3337 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3338 course.
ff790e47 3339
5417f6d1
PH
3340PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3341 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3342 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3343 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3344 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3345 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3346
59cf8544
PH
3347PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3348 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3349 do -d+all out of habit.
3350
e7ad8a65
PH
3351PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3352 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3353 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3354
ade42478
PH
3355PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3356 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3357 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3358 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3359 record types that Exim uses.
3360
182ad5cf
PH
3361PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3362 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3363 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3364 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3365 non-existent file that was broken.
3366
b0d9fc80
TK
3367TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3368 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3369
3370TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3371 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3372 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3373
3374TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3375
47c7a64a
PH
3376PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3377 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3378 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3379 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3380 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3381 same time.
3382
a388bce4
SC
3383SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3384 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3385 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3386 at a slight CPU cost.
3387
3388SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3389 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3390
3391SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3392 by Marc Sherman.
3393
0793e4ed
SC
3394SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3395
c58b88df
PH
3396PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3397 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3398
e7ad8a65 3399
7982096b
PH
3400Exim version 4.51
3401-----------------
3402
1a46a8c5
PH
3403TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3404 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3405
2f079f46 3406TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3407
3408TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3409
3410PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3411 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3412
3413PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3414 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3415 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3416 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3417 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3418 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3419 file.
3420
3421PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3422 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3423 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3424 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3425 these two options.
3426
3427PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3428 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3429 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3430 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3431 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3432 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3433 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3434 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3435
3436PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3437 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3438
3439PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3440 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3441 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3442 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3443 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3444 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3445
3446PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3447 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3448 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3449 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3450
3451PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3452 Finch).
3453
3454PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3455 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3456
49c2d5ea
PH
3457PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3458 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3459 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3460 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3461 message.
49c2d5ea 3462
bf759a8b
PH
3463PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3464
83364d30
PH
3465PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3466 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3467
7999bbd7
PH
3468PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3469 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3470 to what was transported.)
3471
7dbf77c9
PH
3472TF/01 Added $received_time.
3473
74e0617f
PH
3474PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3475 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3476 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3477 spamd_address settings.
3478
2f079f46
PH
3479PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3480 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3481 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3482 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3483 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3484
8c841523
PH
3485PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3486
7766a4f0
PH
3487PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3488 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3489 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3490 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3491 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3492
8b417f2c
PH
3493PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3494 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3495
901f42cb
PH
3496PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3497 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3498 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3499 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3500 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3501 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3502 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3503 for failure.
3504
f9b9210e
PH
3505PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3506 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3507 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3508 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3509 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3510 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3511 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3512 "input=".
3513
54cdb463
PH
3514PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3515
cf00dad6
PH
3516PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3517 driver and ACL definitions.
3518
acb1b346
PH
3519PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3520 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3521
c5ddb310
PH
3522PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3523 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3524 understands it better than I do:
3525
3526 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3527 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3528
3529 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3530 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3531 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3532 => three warnings about OTP not working
3533 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3534
3535 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3536 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3537 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3538 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3539 for each call.)
3540 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3541 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3542
3543 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3544 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3545 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3546
31619da6
PH
3547PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3548 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3549 specified.
3550
bebaf0fc
PH
3551PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3552 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3553 "Linux".
3554
475fe28a
PH
3555PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3556 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3557 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3558
3559 warn !verify = sender
3560 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3561
3562 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3563 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3564
7e8bec7a
PH
3565PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3566
3567 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3568 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3569
3570 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3571 nomenclature these days.)
3572
e4a89c47
PH
3573PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3574 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3575
5ca2a9a1
PH
3576PH/30 In these circumstances:
3577 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3578 . First host does not offer TLS;
3579 . First host accepts first address;
3580 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3581 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3582 . Second host accepts second address.
3583 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3584 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3585 address.
7e8bec7a 3586
c688b954
PH
3587PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3588 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3589 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3590 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3591 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3592
fed77020
PH
3593PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3594 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3595
7fe1560f
PH
3596PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3597 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3598
ebb6e6d5
PH
3599PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3600 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3601 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3602
9c4e8f60
PH
3603PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3604 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3605 overlooked.
3606
3607PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3608
d7174846
PH
3609PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3610 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3611 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3612 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3613 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3614 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3615 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3616
3617 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3618 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3619 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3620 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3621 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3622
3623 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3624 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3625 routed further.
3626
cfe75fc3
PH
3627PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3628 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3629 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3630 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3631 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3632 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3633
be22d70e
PH
3634PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3635
0612b098
PH
3636PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3637 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3638 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3639 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3640 printable escape sequences.
3641
2e0c1448
PH
3642PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3643 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3644 body only.
3645
447d236c
PH
3646PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3647 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3648 are as follows:
3649
3650 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3651 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3652 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3653 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3654 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3655
3656 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3657 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3658 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3659
d20976dc
PH
3660PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3661
f656d135
PH
3662PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3663 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3664 play with."
3665
2e2a30b4
PH
3666PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3667 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3668 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3669 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3670 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3671 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3672 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3673 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3674 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3675 the log output.
3676
9176e9f0
PH
3677PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3678 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3679 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3680 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3681 "make".
3682
7982096b 3683
bbe902f0
PH
3684A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3685----------------------------------------
3686
3687Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3688changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3689needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3690in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3691that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3692release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3693from 4.43.
3694
3695I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36964.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3697those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3698historical information.
3699
3700
f7b63901 3701Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3702-----------------
3703
5fe762f6
PH
3704 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3705
139059f6 3706 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3707 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3708
7086e875
PH
3709 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3710 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3711 place.
3712
35af9f61
PH
3713 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3714 filter fails to execute.
3715
b668c215
PH
3716 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3717 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3718 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3719 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3720 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3721
a494b1e1
PH
3722 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3723
3724 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3725 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3726 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3727 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3728
c5fcb476
PH
3729 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3730 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3731 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3732 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3733 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3734
69358f02
PH
3735 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3736
5be20824
PH
373710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3738
eb2c0248
PH
373911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3740 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3741 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3742 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3743
2a3eea10
PH
374412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3745 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3746 sender verification.
3747
374813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3749 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3750
23c7ff99
PH
375114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3752
4deaf07d
PH
375315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3754 connection timeout.
3755
926e1192
PH
375616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3757 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3758
650edc6f
PH
375917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3760 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3761
2c7db3f5
PH
376218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3763 information about exactly what failed.
3764
3d235903
PH
376519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3766
7c7ad977
PH
376720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3768 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3769 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3770
981756db
PH
377121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3772 It is now set to "smtps".
3773
d4eb88df
PH
377422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3775 ignore_target_hosts.
3776
377723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3778 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3779 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3780 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3781 "[x.x.x.x]".
3782
7d468ab8
PH
378324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3784 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3785 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3786
378725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3788 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3789 wake it up if nothing else does.
3790
62c0818f
PH
379126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3792 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3793 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3794 end up negative.
3795
26034054
PH
379627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3797 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3798
af66f652
PH
379928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3800
90af77f4
PH
380129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3802 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3803 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3804 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3805 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3806 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3807 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3808 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3809
d8ef3577
PH
381030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3811 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3812 than one IP address.
3813
5cb8cbc6
PH
381431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3815 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3816 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3817 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3818
14702f5b
PH
381932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3820 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3821 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3822 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3823 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3824 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3825
063b1e99
PH
382633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3827 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3828 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3829 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3830
652e1b65
PH
383134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3832 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3833 respected.
3834
6f0c9a4f
PH
383535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3836 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3837 $sender_host_address.
3838
33397d19
PH
383936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3840 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3841 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3842 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3843 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3844 very small.
3845
7bb56e1f
PH
384637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3847
3848 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3849 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3850
ea3bc19b
PH
3851 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3852 just the host names, not the priorities.
3853
3854 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3855 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3856 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3857
ea3bc19b 3858 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3859 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3860
0bcb2a0e
PH
386138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3862 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3863 domain.
3864
2ac0e484
PH
386539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3866
4e1fde53
PH
386740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3868 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3869
de365ded
PH
387041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3871 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3872 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3873
f05da2e8
PH
387442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3875
d6453af2
PH
387643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3877
f7b63901
PH
387844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3879
388045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3881 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3882 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3883 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3884 because the tests only now provoked it.
3885
a444213a
PH
388646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3887 (this can affect the format of dates).
3888
0ec020ea
PH
388947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3890 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3891 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3892 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3893
b1206957
PH
389448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3895
389649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3897 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3898 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3899 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3900
26dd5a95
PH
390150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3902 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3903 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3904
343b2385
PH
390551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3906 autoreply.
3907
1c5466b9
PH
390852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3909 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3910 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3911 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3912 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3913 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3914 is going on).
3915
55ee9ee3
PH
391653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3917 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3918 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3919 the line.
3920
d38f8232
PH
392154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3922 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3923 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3924
3925 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3926 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3927 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3928 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3929 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3930 so I produce this patch..."
3931
3295e65b
PH
3932 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3933 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3934 is not defined.
3935
7102e136
PH
393655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3937 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3938 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3939 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3940 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3941
3ca0ba97
PH
394256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3943
c2bcbe20
PH
394457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3945 long debug lines gets shown.
3946
18ce445d
PH
394758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3948 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3949
1f5b4c3d
PH
395059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3951
3952 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3953 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3954 of $primary_hostname.
3955
b975ba52
PH
395660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3957 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3958 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3959 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3960 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3961 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3962 by change 4.50/55 above.
3963
3964 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3965 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3966 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3967 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3968 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3969 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3970 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3971
397261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3973 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3974 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3975 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3976
17ffcae7
PH
397762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3978 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3979
d95f9fdb
PH
398063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3981 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3982 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3983 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3984 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3985
86b8287f
PH
398664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3987 This has been fixed.
3988
60dc5e56
PH
398965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3990 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3991 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3992 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3993 the caching.)
3994
533244af
PH
399566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3996
a5a28604
PH
399767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3998 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3999 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4000 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4001
7e634d24
PH
400268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4003 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4004
3e11c26b
PH
400569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4006 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4007 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4008
6729cf78
PH
400970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4010 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4011 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4012 message there.
4013
00f00ca5
PH
401471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4015 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4016 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4017
c9bdd01c
PH
401872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4019 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4020 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4021 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4022
d43194df
PH
402373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4024 during host lookups.
4025
fe5b5d0b
PH
402674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4027 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4028
4029 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4030
76a2d7ba
PH
403175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4032 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4033 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4034 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4035 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4036 background.
4037
403876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4039 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4040
04f7d5b9
PH
404177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4042 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4043 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4044
bc60667e
PH
404578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4046
bb6e88ff
PH
404779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4048 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4049 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4050 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4051 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4052 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4053 process earlier.
4054
1e70f85b
PH
405580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4056 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4057 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4058 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4059 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4060
406181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4062 tables).
4063
4e01f9d6
PH
406482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4065
1ee1cef2
PH
406683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4067 "vacation" handling.
4068
6e2b4ccc
PH
406984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4070 OS variants using glibc.
4071
8e669ac1
PH
407285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4073
495ae4b0 4074
bbe902f0
PH
4075----------------------------------------------------
4076See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4077----------------------------------------------------
4078
4079
4080Exim version 4.44
4081-----------------
4082
4083 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4084 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4085 transport
4086
4087 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4088 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4089 place.
4090
4091 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4092 filter fails to execute.
4093
4094 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4095 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4096 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4097 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4098 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4099
4100 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4101 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4102 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4103 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4104
4105 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4106 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4107 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4108 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4109 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4110
4111 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4112
4113 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4114 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4115 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4116 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4117
4118 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4119 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4120 sender verification.
4121
412210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4123 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4124
412511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4126 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4127
412812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4129 ignore_target_hosts.
4130
413113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4132 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4133 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4134 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4135 "[x.x.x.x]".
4136
413714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4138 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4139 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4140
414115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4142 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4143 wake it up if nothing else does.
4144
414516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4146 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4147 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4148 end up negative.
4149
415017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4151 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4152
ea3a6f44 415318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4154
415519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4156 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4157 empty pattern.
4158
415920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4160 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4161 one IP address.
4162
ea3a6f44
NM
416321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4164 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4165 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4166 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4167 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4168 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4169
ea3a6f44
NM
417022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4171 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4172 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4173
417423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4175 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4176 $sender_host_address.
4177
417824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4179
ea3a6f44
NM
418025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4181 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4182 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4183
418426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4185 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4186
ea3a6f44
NM
418727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4188 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4189
ea3a6f44
NM
419028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4191 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4192 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4193 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4194
419529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4196 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4197 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4198
ea3a6f44
NM
419930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4200 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4201 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4202 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4203
ea3a6f44
NM
420431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4205 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4206 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4207
ea3a6f44
NM
420831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4209 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4210
ea3a6f44
NM
421132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4212 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4213 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4214 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4215 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4216 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4217 is going on).
bbe902f0 4218
ea3a6f44
NM
421933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4220 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4221 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4222 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4223 CAN-2005-0021
4224
ea3a6f44
NM
422534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4226 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4227 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4228 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4229 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4230 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4231 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4232
4233 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4234 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4235 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4236 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4237 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4238 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4239 CAN-2005-0021
4240
ea3a6f44
NM
424135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4242 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4243 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4244 CAN-2005-0022
4245
ea3a6f44
NM
424636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4247 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4248 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4249 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4250 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4251
ea3a6f44
NM
425237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4253 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4254 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4255 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4256 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4257
ea3a6f44
NM
425838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4259 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4260 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4261 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4262 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4263
4264
495ae4b0
PH
4265Exim version 4.43
4266-----------------
4267
4268 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4269 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4270 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4271 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4272 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4273 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4274 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4275
4276 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4277 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4278 the delivery.
4279
4280 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4281
4282 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4283
4284 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4285 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4286 to local_scan().
4287
4288 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4289 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4290 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4291 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4292 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4293
4294 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4295 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4296
4297 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4298
4299 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4300
430110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4302 header_sender only.
4303
430411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4305 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4306
430712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4308 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4309 affecting debugging statements).
4310
431113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4312
431314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4314 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4315 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4316 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4317 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4318 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4319 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4320 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4321 after the received time, and all would be well.
4322
432315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4324 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4325 condition in an expansion string.
4326
432716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4328
432917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4330 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4331 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4332 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4333 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4334 job under whatever limits there are.
4335
433618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4337
433819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4339 space).
4340
434120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4342 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4343 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4344 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4345 return path is set.
4346
434721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4348 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4349 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4350 binary data in such strings.
4351
435222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4353
435423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4355 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4356 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4357 failure, which is pointless.
4358
435924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4360
436125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4362
436326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4364 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4365 Sender: header lines.
4366
436727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4368 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4369 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4370
437128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4372 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4373 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4374 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4375 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4376 happens.
4377
437829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4379 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4380 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4381 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4382 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4383
438430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4385 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4386 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4387 1024.
4388
438931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4390 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4391
439232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4393 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4394
439533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4396
439732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4398
439933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4400
440134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4402 syntax error.
4403
440435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4405
440636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4407
440837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4409 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4410 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4411 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4412
441338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4414 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4415
4416
4417Exim version 4.42
4418-----------------
4419
4420 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4421 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4422 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4423 it was not quoted.
4424 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4425 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4426 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4427 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4428 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4429 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4430
4431 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4432 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4433 verification failure".
4434
4435 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4436 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4437 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4438 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4439
4440 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4441 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4442 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4443 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4444 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4445 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4446 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4447 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4448 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4449 treated as a timeout.
4450
4451 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4452 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4453 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4454 not set for Exim filters).
4455
4456 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4457 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4458 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4459
4460 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4461
4462 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4463 try to make them clearer.
4464
4465 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4466 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4467
4468 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4469
4470 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4471
447210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4473 only the Cygwin environment.
4474
447511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4476 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4477 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4478 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4479 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4480
448112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4482 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4483 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4484 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4485 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4486 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4487 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4488
448913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4490 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4491
449214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4493
4494 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4495 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4496 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4497
4498 To: susanne@some.where
4499
4500 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4501 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4502 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4503 of addresses in From: header lines).
4504
4505 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4506 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4507 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4508
4509 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4510 treated as non-personal.
4511
4512 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4513 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4514
451515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4516
451716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4518
451917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4520 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4521 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4522
452318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4524 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4525
452619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4527 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4528 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4529 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4530 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4531 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4532
453320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4534 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4535 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4536 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4537 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4538 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4539 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4540 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4541
4542 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4543
454421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4545 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4546
454722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4548 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4549 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4550
455123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4552 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4553
455424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4555 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4556 rather than long int.
4557
455825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4559
456026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4561
4562
4563Exim version 4.41
4564-----------------
4565
4566 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4567 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4568 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4569 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4570 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4571 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4572
4573
4574Exim version 4.40
4575-----------------
4576
4577 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4578 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4579
4580 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4581 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4582 socklen_t is defined.
4583
4584 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4585 always exist.
4586
4587 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4588 configured.
4589
4590 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4591 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4592 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4593 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4594 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4595
4596 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4597 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4598 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4599 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4600
4601 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4602 of flapping under certain conditions.
4603
4604 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4605 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4606 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4607
4608 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4609
461010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4611
461211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4613 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4614 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4615 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4616
461712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4618 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4619 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4620 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4621 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4622 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4623 preserved with the message after it was received.
4624
462513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4626 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4627 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4628 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4629 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4630 test suite worked just fine.
4631
463214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4633 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4634 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4635
463615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4637 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4638 string.
4639
464016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4641 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4642 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4643 does not fully solve it.
4644
464517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4646 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4647 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4648 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4649 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4650
465118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4652 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4653 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4654
465519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4656 string, for example:
4657
4658 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4659
4660 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4661 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4662 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4663 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4664 the routers could not see them.
4665
466620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4667 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4668
466921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4670 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4671 output).
4672
467322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4674 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4675 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4676 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4677 that needed quoting.
4678
467923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4680 was not being matched caselessly.
4681
468224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4683 backslashes.
4684
468525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4686 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4687 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4688 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4689 when use_sender is false.
4690
469126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4692
469327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4694
469528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4696
469729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4698 the configuration file.
4699
470030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4701 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4702
470331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4704
470532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4706 bytes in the message body.
4707
470833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4709 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4710 delivery.
4711
471234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4713
471435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4715
471636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4717 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4718 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4719 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4720 another IP address.
4721
4722
4723Exim version 4.34
4724-----------------
4725
4726 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4727 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4728
4729 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4730 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4731 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4732 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4733 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4734
4735 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4736 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4737
4738 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4739 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4740 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4741
4742 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4743 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4744 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4745
4746 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4747 for routers.
4748
4749 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4750 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4751 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4752 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4753 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4754 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4755 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4756
4757
4758Exim version 4.33
4759-----------------
4760
4761 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4762 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4763 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4764 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4765 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4766 default (and expected) setting.
4767
4768 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4769 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4770 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4771 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4772
4773 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4774 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4775
4776 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4777 in domain lists.
4778
4779 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4780 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4781 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4782 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4783 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4784 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4785
4786 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4787 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4788 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4789
4790 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4791 part (NOT match_host).
4792
4793 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4794
4795 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4796 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4797 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4798 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4799 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4800 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4801 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4802 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4803 the same named file.
4804
480510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4806 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4807 when Exim is built.
4808
480911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4810 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4811 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4812 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4813 a host name.
4814
481512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4816 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4817 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4818
481913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4820
482114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4822
482315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4824
482516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4826 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4827
482817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4829 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4830 before starting the TLS session.
4831
483218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4833
483419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4835 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4836
483720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4838 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4839 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4840 colon in the middle).
4841
4842
4843Exim version 4.32
4844-----------------
4845
4846 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4847 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4848 multiple configurations are in use.
4849
4850 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4851 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4852 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4853 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4854 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4855 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4856
4857 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4858 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4859
4860 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4861 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4862 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4863
4864 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4865 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4866 occurs.
4867
4868 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4869 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4870
4871 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4872
4873 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4874 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4875
4876 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4877
4878 -prval:sval
4879
4880 is equivalent to
4881
4882 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4883
4884 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4885 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4886 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4887 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4888 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4889
489010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4891 Exim's behaviour:
4892
4893 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4894 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4895 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4896 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4897 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4898 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4899
4900 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4901 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4902 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4903 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4904 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4905 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4906 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4907 string.
4908
4909 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4910 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4911 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4912 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4913 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4914
491511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4916
491712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4918 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4919 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4920
492113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4922
492314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4924 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4925 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4926 information.
4927
492815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4929 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4930
493116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4932 Three changes have been made:
4933
4934 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4935 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4936 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4937 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4938 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4939
4940 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4941 been restored.
4942
4943 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4944 the modified behaviour.
4945
4946
4947Exim version 4.31
4948-----------------
4949
4950 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4951 Larry Rosenman.
4952
4953 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4954 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4955
4956 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4957 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4958 try to track down a specific problem.
4959
4960 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4961 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4962 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4963
4964 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4965 warning.
4966
4967 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4968 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4969 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4970 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4971 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4972 some earlier ones do not.
4973
4974 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4975
4976 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4977 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4978 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4979 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4980 address literals are enabled, of course).
4981
4982 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4983
498410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4985 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4986 by a command such as
4987
4988 exim -f "" ...
4989
4990 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4991
499211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4993
499412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4995 remained set. It is now erased.
4996
499713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4998 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4999
500014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5001 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5002 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5003 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5004 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5005 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5006 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5007 appropriate error code.
5008
500915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5010 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5011 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5012 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5013 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5014 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5015
501616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5017 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5018 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5019
502017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5021 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5022 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5023 terminate the header.
5024
502518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5026 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5027 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5028
502919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5030 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5031 (4.30/29). In particular:
5032
5033 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5034 imposed.
5035
5036 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5037 to write a maildirsize file.
5038
5039 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5040 the transport, the new value overrides.
5041
5042 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5043 count.
5044
504520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5046 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5047 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5048 space or a tab.
5049
505021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5051 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5052 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5053 the fallback hosts.
5054
505522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5056 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5057 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5058
505923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5060 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5061 using a union.
5062
506324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5064 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5065 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5066
506725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5068
506926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5070
507127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5072
507328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5074 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5075 become corrupted.
5076
507729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5078 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5079 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5080 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5081 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5082 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5083 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5084 too great.
5085
508630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5087 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5088 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5089 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5090 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5091 incorrectly.
5092
509331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5094 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5095 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5096 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5097 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5098 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5099 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5100 cached value only when the same options are set.
5101
510232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5103
510433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5105 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5106 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5107 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5108 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5109
511034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5111 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5112 it is clearly obsolete.
5113
511435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5115 transport.
5116
511736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5118 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5119 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5120 times.
5121
512237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5123 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5124 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5125 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5126 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5127
512838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5129 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5130 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5131 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5132
513339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5134
5135 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5136
5137 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5138 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5139 2^31.
5140
514140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5142 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5143 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5144 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5145 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5146 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5147 $localpart_data.
5148
514941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5150 with the -f command-line option.
5151
515242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5153 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5154 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5155 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5156 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5157 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5158
515943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5160 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5161 line.
5162
516344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5164 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5165 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5166 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5167 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5168 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5169 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5170 buffer is too small.
5171
517245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5173 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5174
517546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5176 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5177 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5178 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5179 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5180 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5181 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5182 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5183 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5184
518547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5186 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5187 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5188
518948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5190 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5191 ACL").
5192
519349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5194 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5195 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5196 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5197 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5198
519950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5200 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5201 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5202 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5203 is set.
5204
520551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5206
520752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5208
520953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5210 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5211
521254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5213 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5214 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5215
521655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5217 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5218 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5219 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5220 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5221
522256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5223 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5224 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5225 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5226 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5227 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5228 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5229
523057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5231 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5232 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5233 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5234 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5235 the test of how many are available.
5236
523758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5238 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5239 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5240 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5241 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5242 new message is started.
5243
524459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5245 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5246
524760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5248 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5249
525061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5251 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5252 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5253 is no long logged.
5254
525562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5256 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5257 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5258 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5259 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5260 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5261 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5262
526363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5264 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5265 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5266 interpreted as octal.
5267
526864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5269 setting.
5270
527165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5272 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5273 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5274 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5275 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5276 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5277
527866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5279 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5280 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5281 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5282
5283 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5284 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5285 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5286 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5287
5288 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5289 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5290 is a bug fix.
5291
5292 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5293 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5294
529567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5296
529768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5298 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5299 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5300 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5301
530269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5303 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5304 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5305 supplied", which is not helpful.
5306
530770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5308 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5309 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5310
531171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5312 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5313 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5314 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5315 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5316 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5317 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5318 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5319
532072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5321 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5322 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5323 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5324 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5325
532673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5327 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5328 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5329 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5330 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5331 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5332
533374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5334 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5335 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5336
533775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5338
533976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5340 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5341 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5342 variables.
5343
534477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5345
534678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5347 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5348 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5349 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5350 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5351 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5352 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5353 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5354
535579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5356 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5357 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5358 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5359 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5360
536180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5362 Haardt.
5363
536481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5365 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5366 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5367 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5368 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5369 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5370 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5371 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5372 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5373
5374
5375Exim version 4.30
5376-----------------
5377
5378 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5379 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5380 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5381
5382 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5383 fixed.
5384
5385 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5386 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5387 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5388
5389 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5390 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5391 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5392 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5393 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5394 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5395
5396 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5397 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5398 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5399 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5400 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5401 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5402 the Exim test suite.
5403
5404 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5405 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5406 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5407 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5408
5409 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5410 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5411 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5412 specify it in this variable.
5413
5414 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5415 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5416 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5417 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5418
5419 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5420 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5421 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5422 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5423
5424 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5425 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5426 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5427 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5428 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5429
5430 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5431
543210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5433 they are logged.
5434
543511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5436 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5437 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5438 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5439 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5440
544112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5442 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5443
544413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5445 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5446 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5447 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5448 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5449
545014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5451 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5452
545315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5454 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5455 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5456
545716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5458 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5459
546017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5461 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5462
546318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5464 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5465 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5466
546719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5468 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5469
547020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5471 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5472 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5473 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5474
547521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5476
547722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5478 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5479 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5480 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5481
548223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5483
548424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5485 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5486
548725. Added .include_if_exists.
5488
548926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5490 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5491 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5492 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5493 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5494 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5495
549627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5497
549828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5499 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5500 this.
5501
550229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5503
550430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5505 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5506
5507 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5508 550 Sender verify failed
5509
5510 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5511 the final line of the response.
5512
551331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5514 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5515 all other user lookups.
5516
551732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5518 delivery time.
5519
552033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5521 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5522 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5523 result into an int without checking.
5524
552534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5526 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5527 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5528
552935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5530 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5531 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5532 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5533
553436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5535 correctly.
5536
553737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5538 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5539
554038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5541 to the empty sender.
5542
554339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5544 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5545 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5546 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5547 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5548 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5549 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5550 panic log.
5551
555240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5553 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5554 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5555 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5556 used.
5557
555841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5559 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5560
556142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5562 timestamps.
5563
556443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5565 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5566
556744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5568
556945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5570 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5571 logs.
5572
557346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5574 as soon as it is encountered.
5575
557647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5577
557848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5579 rewritten to "<>".
5580
558149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5582 recognizes a tab character.
5583
558450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5585 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5586 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5587 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5588
558951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5590
559152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5592 crash.
5593
559453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5595
559654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5597
559855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5599 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5600 2822.
5601
560256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5603 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5604 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5605 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5606 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5607
560857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5609 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5610
561158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5612 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5613 list (.included file names were always shown).
5614
561559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5616 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5617 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5618 root at that time.
5619
562060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5621 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5622
562361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5624
562562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5626
562763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5628
562964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5630 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5631 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5632 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5633 failures to open the logs.
5634
563565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5636 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5637 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5638 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5639 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5640 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5641 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5642
5643
5644Exim version 4.24
5645-----------------
5646
5647 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5648 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5649 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5650 change 4.23/1.
5651
5652 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5653 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5654 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5655
5656 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5657 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5658 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5659
5660 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5661 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5662 causing some misleading effects.
5663
5664 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5665 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5666 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5667
5668 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5669 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5670 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5671 queue-runner function directly.
5672
5673
5674Exim version 4.23
5675-----------------
5676
5677 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5678 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5679
5680 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5681 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5682 was always written to the default place.
5683
5684 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5685 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5686 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5687
5688 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5689
5690 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5691
5692 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5693 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5694 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5695
5696 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5697 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5698 must start.
5699
5700 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5701 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5702 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5703
5704 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5705 command line option is disabled.
5706
5707 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5708 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5709
5710 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5711
5712 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5713
5714 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5715 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5716
571710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5718
571911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5720 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5721 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5722 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5723 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5724 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5725
572612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5727 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5728 timeout.
5729
573013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5731 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5732
573314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5734 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5735
573615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5737 received was valid base64.
5738
573916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5740 name of the variable that was being set.
5741
574217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5743
574418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5745 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5746 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5747 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5748 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5749 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5750
575119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5752
575320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5754 nor realm was specified.
5755
575621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5757 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5758 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5759 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5760
576122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5762 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5763 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5764
576523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5766 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5767 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5768
576924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5770 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5771 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5772 some systems use these upper case variants.
5773
577425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5775 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5776 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5777 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5778
577926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5780
578127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5782 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5783
578428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5785 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5786 expansion variable.
5787
578829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5789
579030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5791 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5792 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5793 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5794
579531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5796 using it.
5797
579832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5799 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5800 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5801
580233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5803 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5804
580534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5806 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5807 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5808 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5809
581035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5811 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5812 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5813
581436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5815
581637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5817 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5818 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5819 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5820 aborted.
5821
582238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5823 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5824 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5825
582639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5827
582840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5829 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5830
583141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5832 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5833
583442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5835 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5836 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5837 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5838 when emails are that large.
5839
5840
5841
5842Exim version 4.22
5843-----------------
5844
5845 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5846 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5847
5848 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5849 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5850 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5851
5852 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5853 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5854 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5855
5856 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5857 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5858 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5859 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5860 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5861
5862 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5863 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5864 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5865 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5866 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5867 ever.
5868
5869 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5870 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5871 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5872 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5873 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5874 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5875 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5876 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5877 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5878 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5879 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5880 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5881 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5882 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5883
5884 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5885 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5886 parameterised it.
5887
5888 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5889 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5890 error should be diagnosed.
5891
5892 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5893 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5894 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5895 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5896 appeared instead of "NULL".
5897
589810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5899 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5900 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5901 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5902 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5903 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5904 proceeds).
5905
5906 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5907 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5908 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5909
5910
5911Exim version 4.21
5912-----------------
5913
5914 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5915 or receiver verification errors.
5916
5917 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5918 name.
5919
5920 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5921 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5922 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5923 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5924
5925 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5926 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5927 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5928 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5929 shouldn't happen again.
5930
5931 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5932 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5933 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5934
5935 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5936 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5937
5938 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5939
5940 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5941 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5942
5943 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5944 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5945 RFC.
5946
594710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5948 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5949 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5950
595111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5952 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5953 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5954 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5955
595612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5957 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5958 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5959 to define what should happen).
5960
596113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5962 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5963 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5964
596514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5966
596715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5968
596916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5970 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5971
597217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5973 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5974 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5975 structure in all cases.
5976
5977 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5978 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5979 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5980 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5981
598218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5983 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5984 domain name.
5985
598619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5987 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5988
598920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5990 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5991
599221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5993 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5994 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5995
599622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5997 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5998 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5999
600023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6001 the book and for uniformity.
6002
600324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6004
600525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6006 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6007 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6008 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6009 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6010 non-existent command as the problem.
6011
601226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6013 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6014 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6015
601627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6017
601828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6019 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6020 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6021
602229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6023 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6024 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6025 timestamps using strftime().
6026
602730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6028 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6029
603032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6031 transport-time rewrites.
6032
603333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6034 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6035 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6036 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6037
603834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6039 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6040
604135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6042 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6043 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6044 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6045 comma and a space.
6046
604736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6048 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6049 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6050 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6051 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6052 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6053 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6054
605537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6056 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6057 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6058 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6059 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6060
606138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6062 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6063 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6064 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6065 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6066 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6067 remaining text gets split now.
6068
606939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6070 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6071 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6072 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6073
607440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6075 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6076 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6077 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6078 $return_path.
6079
608041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6081 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6082 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6083 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6084 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6085 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6086 passed through if needed.
6087
608842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6089 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6090 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6091 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6092 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6093 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6094
609543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6096 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6097 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6098 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6099 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6100
610144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6102 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6103 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6104 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6105 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6106
610745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6108 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6109 noticed.
6110
611146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6112 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6113 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6114 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6115 mayhem of various kinds.
6116
611747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6118 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6119 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6120 the right test for positive values.
6121
612248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6123 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6124 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6125 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6126 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6127 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6128 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6129 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6130 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6131 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6132 envelope.
6133
613449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6135 module.
6136
613750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6138 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6139 forbidding it.
6140
614151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6142 the existing equality matching.
6143
614452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6145 dealing with inode numbers.
6146
614753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6148 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6149 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6150
615154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6152 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6153 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6154 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6155 local_scan().
6156
615755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6158 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6159 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6160 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6161 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6162 relay addresses has also been removed.
6163
616456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6165
616657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6167 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6168 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6169
617058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6171 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6172 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6173 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6174 processing applies to CR:
6175
6176 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6177 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6178
6179 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6180 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6181 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6182 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6183
618459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6185 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6186 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6187
618860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6189 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6190 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6191 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6192 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6193 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6194 arisen.
6195
619661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6197 program routers.
6198
619962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6200 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6201 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6202 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6203 adds:
6204
6205 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6206
6207 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6208
6209 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6210
621163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6212 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6213 not considered personal.
6214
621564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6216
621765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6218
621966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6220
622167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6222 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6223 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6224 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6225 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6226 header lines, and spool format errors.
6227
622868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6229 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6230 for more flexibility.
6231
623269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6233 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6234 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6235
623670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6237 Sabourenkov.
6238
623971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6240 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6241 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6242 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6243 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6244 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6245 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6246 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6247 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6248
624972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6250 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6251 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6252 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6253 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6254 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6255 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6256
625773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6258 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6259 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6260
626174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6262 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6263 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6264 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6265 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6266 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6267 instead of killing the process with assert().
6268
626975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6270 than Unicode encoding.
6271
627276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6273 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6274 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6275 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6276
627777. Added process_log_path.
6278
627978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6280 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6281
628279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6283 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6284
628580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6286 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6287 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6288
628981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6290 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6291 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6292 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6293 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6294 were applied:
6295
6296 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6297 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6298 as invalid.
6299
630082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6301 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6302 they will be used during message reception.
6303
6304
6305Exim version 4.20
6306-----------------
6307
6308The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6309
6310****