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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9427e879 11JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 12 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
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14JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
15
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16PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
17 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
18
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19JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
20 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
23 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
24 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
25 before acknowledging the chunk.
26
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27PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
28 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
29 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
30
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31JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
32 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
33 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
34 should.
35
36JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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37 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
38 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 40JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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41 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
42
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43JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
44 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
45 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
46 body hash calculated value.
47
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48JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
49 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
50 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
51
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52JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
53
54JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
55 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
56
57JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
58 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
59 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
60
61JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
62 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
63 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
64 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
65 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
66 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
67
68JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
69 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
70 past that check, despite the cost.
71
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72JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
73 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
74 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
75
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76PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
77 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
78 TLS library to consume.
79
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80PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
81
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86JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
87 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 88
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89JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
90 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
91 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
92
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93JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
94 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
95 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
96 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
97 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
98 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
99 if one fails this test.
100 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
101 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
102
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103JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
104 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
105
23bb6982 106JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 107 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 108
0bd1b1ed 109JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 110 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 111
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112JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
113 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
114
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115JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
116 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
117
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118JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
119
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120JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
121 certificate).
122
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123JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
124 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
125 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
126 connection after a verify cache hit.
127 Do not update it with the verify result either.
128
129JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
130 when routing results in more than one destination address.
131
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132JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
133 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
134 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
135 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
136 when the cutthrough connection is made).
137
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138JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
139 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
140
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141JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
142 Previously they were not counted.
143
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144JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
145 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
146 that needed the lookup.
147
4c04137d 148JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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149 distinguished as "(=".
150
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151JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
152 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
153
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154JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
155
156JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
157 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 158
4c04137d 159JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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160 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
161
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162JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
163 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
164 compatible.
165
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166JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
167 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
168 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
169 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
170
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171JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
172
f59aaaaa 173JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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174 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
175 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 176
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177JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
178 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
179 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
180 be lost.
181
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182JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
183 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
184 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
185 itself :(
186
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187JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
188 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
189 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
190
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191JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
192 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
193 options.
194
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195JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
196
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197PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
198 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
199
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200PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
201 are not in the system include path.
202
ad7fc6eb 203JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 204 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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205 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
206 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 207
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208JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
209 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
210 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
211
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212JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
213
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214HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
215 an incoming connection.
216
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217HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
218 to rspamd.
219
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220HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
221 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 222
87cb4a16 223JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 224 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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227Exim version 4.87
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230JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
231 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
232 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
233 client dropping the TLS connection.
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235TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
236 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
237
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238TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
239 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
240 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
241 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
242 outgoing I= field.
243
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244JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
245 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
246 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
247 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
248 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
249 check on the next write.
250
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251HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
252 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
253 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
254 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
255 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
256
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257JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
258 mime_regex ACL conditions.
259
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260JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
261 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
262 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
263
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264JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
265 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
266 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
267 an authenticate fail is not an error.
268
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269HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
270 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
271
4c04137d 272JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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273 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
274
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275JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
276 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
277 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
278 distinct.
279
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280JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
281
282JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
283
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284JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
285
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286JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
287 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
288
98b98887 289JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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290 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
291
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292JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
293
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294JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
295 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
296
297JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
298
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299JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
300 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
301
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302JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
303
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304JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
305 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 306 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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307 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
308 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
309 they will retry in-clear.
310 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
311 at installation time.
312
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313HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
314 with the $config_file variable.
315
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316JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
317 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
318 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
319 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 320 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 321
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322GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
323 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
324 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
325 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
326 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
327
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328JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
329
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330JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
331 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
332 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
333 list order is no longer honoured.
334
4c04137d 335JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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336 for DKIM processing.
337
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338JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
339 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 340
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341JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
342 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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343 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
344 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 345
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346JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
347 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
348
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349JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
350 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
351
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352JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
353 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
354
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355JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
356
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357JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
358 cached by the daemon.
359
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360JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
361 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
362
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363JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
364 keys are given for lookup.
365
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366JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
367 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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368 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
369 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 370
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371JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
372 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
373 server-side so match that on older versions.
374
07c73177 375JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 376 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 377 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 378
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379JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
380 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
381
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382JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
383 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
384 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 385 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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386 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
387 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
388 initial truncated version.
389
ab9152ff 390JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 391
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392JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
393
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394JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
395 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
396
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397JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
398
bc3c7bb7 399HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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401JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
402 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
403 induced overflows.
404
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405JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
406 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
407 stage.
408
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409JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
410 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
411
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412JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
413 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
414 former class.
415
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416JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
417 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
418 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
419
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420JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
421 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
422 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
423 extraction. Accept either.
424
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426Exim version 4.86
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429JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
430 expanded.
431
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432JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
433
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434JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
435 it.
436
01a4a5c5 437JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 438 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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439 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
440 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
441
cb1d7830 442JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 443 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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444 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
445
610ff438 446JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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447 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
448 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
449 TLS connections
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451JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
452 sites use this now.
453
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454JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
455 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
456 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
457 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
458 have a dsn_lasthop option.
459
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460JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
461 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 462 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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464JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
465
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466JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
467 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
468
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469JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
470 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
471
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472JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
473 /defer_ok option.
474
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475JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
476 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
477
fd4d8871 478JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 479 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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480 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
481
482JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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483 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
484 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 485
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486JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
487 timeout value per server.
488
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489JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
490 now have the list separator specified.
491
8a512ed5 492JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 493 option values.
8a512ed5 494
82c0c8ea 495JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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496 under OpenSSL.
497
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498JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
499
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500JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
501 rather than the verbs used.
502
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503JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
504 from 255 to 1024 chars.
505
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506JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
507
cfab9d68 508HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 509 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 510
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511JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
512 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
513
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514HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
515 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
516
4c04137d 517JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 518
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519JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
520
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521JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
522 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 523 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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524 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
525
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526JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
527
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528JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
529 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
530
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531JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
532 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
533
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534JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
535
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536JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
537
7137ca4b
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538JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
539
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540JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
541 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
542
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543JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
544 added for tls authenticator.
545
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546HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
547
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552TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
553 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
554 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
555 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
556 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
557 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
558 the script parsing/test process like normal.
559
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560TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
561 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
562 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
563 function when detected.
564
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565JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
566 cause callback expansion.
567
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568TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
569 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
570 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
571 instead of bool when processing it.
572
0f06b4f2 573JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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574 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
575
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576JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
577
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578JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
579
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580TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
581
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582TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
583 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 584
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585JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
586 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
587 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
588 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 589 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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590 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
591
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592JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
593 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
594 exceeded it.
595
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596JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
597 version 3.3.6 or later.
598
4c04137d 599JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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600 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
601 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 602 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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603 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
604 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
605 option is defined.
774ef2d7 606
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607TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
608 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
609
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610JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
611 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
612 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
613 matches.
614
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615JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
616 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
617 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
618
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619JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
620 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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621
622JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
623 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
624 syntax errors.
625
3394b36a 626JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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627
628JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
629 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
630
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631TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
632 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
633 tarball.
634
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635JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
636
4c04137d 637JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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638 Bug 1561.
639
640JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
641 output list separator was used.
642
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646TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
647 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
648 return.
1f0ebb98 649
a612424f 650JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 651 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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652
653JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
654
655TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 656 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 657
1f0ebb98 658
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660-----------------
661
662TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
663
664 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
665 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
666 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
667 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
668 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
669 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
670
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671TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
672 utilities have not been installed.
673
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674JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
675 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
676
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677TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
678 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
679
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680TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
681 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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682 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
683 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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685JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
686
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687TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
688 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
689
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690PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
691 not dns_use_dnssec.
692
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693JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
694
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695TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
696 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
697 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
698
8ddef691 699TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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700 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
701 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
702 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
703 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 704 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 705
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706JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
707
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708JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
709 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
710
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711JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
712 failed delivery.
713
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714JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
715
511a6c14 716JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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717
718JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
719 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 720
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721JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
722 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
723
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724TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
725
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726JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
727
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728JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
729 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
730
731 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
732 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
733 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
734
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735TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
736 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
737 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
738 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 739
35aba663
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740JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
741
8c51eead 742JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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743 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
744 lookup).
8c51eead 745
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746TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
747 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
748 Schlichting.
35aba663 749
fd3b6a4a 750JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 751 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 752
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753TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
754 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
755
2b4a568d
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756JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
757
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758TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
759 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
760 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
761
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762JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
763 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
764
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765JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
766 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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767 hosts_request_ocsp.
768
ed3bba5f 769JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 770 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 771 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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773JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
774
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775TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
776 Christian Aistleitner.
777
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778JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
779
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780TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
781 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
782
00bff6f6
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783JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
784 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
785
071c51f7
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786JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
787 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
788
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789TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
790 support and error reporting did not work properly.
791
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792TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
793 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
794
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795TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
796 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
797 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
798
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799JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
800
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801PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
802 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
803 Jasper Wallace.
804
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805JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
806
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807TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
808 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
809 CVE-2014-2972
810
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815PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
816
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817PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
818 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
819
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820PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
821 by GnuTLS.
822
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823PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
824 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
825 routines.
826
13363eba 827PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 828
66645890 829PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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830 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
831 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
832 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
833 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 834
a3fb9793 835PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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836 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
837 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
838 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 839 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 840 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 841
d27f98fe 842TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 843
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844TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
845
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846TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
847 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
848
ae0e32ee 849TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 850 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 851 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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852
853TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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855TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
856
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857TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
858 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
859
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860JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
861
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862JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
863
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864PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
865
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866NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
867 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 868
585121e2 869JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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871PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
872 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
873 function.
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875PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
876 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
877
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878JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
879 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
880 "acl = name arg..."
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882JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
883
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884JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
885
ea722490 886JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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887 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
888
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889JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
890 Bugzilla 884.
891
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892JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
893 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
894
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895JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
896 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
897
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898PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
899 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 900 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 901
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902JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
903 authenticators.
904
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905JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
906 for control.
907
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908PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
909
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910PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
911 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
912 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
913 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
914
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915TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
916
917 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
918 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
919 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
920 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
921 the retry rules.
922
923 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
924 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
925 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
926
927 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
928 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
929 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
930 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
931
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932 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
933 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
934 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
935 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
936 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
937 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
938 delivery, as in LMTP.
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939
940 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
941 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
942
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943TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
944
945 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
946
947 Resent-From: f
948
949 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
950 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
951 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
952 username as equal to the username.
953
954 This change corrects that bug.
955
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956GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
957 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
958 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
959
eb505532
TF
960TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
961
14c7b357
PP
962PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
963 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
964 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
965 NULL dereference and crash.
966
94eaf700
PP
967JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
968
6f5a440a
PP
969PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
970 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
971 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
972
514ee161
SC
973SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
974
fd98a5c6
JH
975JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
976 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
977 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
978 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
979 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
980 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
981 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 982 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
983 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
984 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
985 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
986
035c7f1e
PP
987PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
988 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
989
ff284120
PP
990PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
991 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
992 Bugzilla 880.
993
26e72755
PP
994PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
995 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
996 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
997 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
998 an empty string is now equivalent.
999
0fbd9bff
PP
1000PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1001 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1002 not performing validation itself.
1003
700d22f3
PP
1004PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1005 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1006
fcc8e047
JH
1007JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1008 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1009
4c04137d 1010TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1011
8c020188
PP
1012PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1013 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1014 other false fix of the same issue.
1015 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1016 Bugzilla 1363.
1017
d13cdd30
PP
1018PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1019 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1020
e2fbf4a2
PP
1021PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1022 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1023 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1024
f4c1088b
PP
1025PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1026 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1027 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1028
c5c2182f
PP
1029TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1030
73431ca9
JH
1031JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1032
2d07a215
TL
1033TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1034 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1035
a30a8861
TL
1036TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1037 Alexander Miroch.
1038
33382dd9
TL
1039TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1040 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1041 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1042 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1043 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1044
046172e6
TL
1045TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1046 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1047
581d7bee 1048TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1049 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1050 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1051
1052TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1053 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1054 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1055 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1056
237b2cf2
TL
1057TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1058
9fc5a352
TL
1059TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1060 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1061 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1062
b10e4ec2
TL
1063TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1064
e2cebd74
TL
1065TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1066 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1067 interaction.
1068
1069TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1070 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1071
2519e60d
TL
1072TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1073 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1074
e78e6ecf 1075
4263f395
PP
1076Exim version 4.80.1
1077-------------------
1078
1079PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1080 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1081 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1082
ea722490 1083
b1770b6e 1084Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1085-----------------
1086
1087PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1088 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1089 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1090
23c7e742
NM
1091NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1092
b322aac8
NM
1093NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1094 improved.
1095
4a891427
NM
1096NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1097
c1e794ba 1098PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1099
97753960
PP
1100PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1101
1102PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1103 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1104
df6303fa
PP
1105PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1106 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1107
7e6a8985
PP
1108PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1109 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1110
f1e05cc7 1111PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1112 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1113 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1114
4c287009
PP
1115PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1116
b98bb9ac
PP
1117PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1118 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1119
4a6a987a
PP
1120PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1121
c45dd180 1122PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1123
7db8d074
PP
1124PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1125 non-compliant senders.
1126 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1127
eae0036b 1128NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1129 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1130 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1131
dec5017e
PP
1132PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1133 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1134 in spool file corruption.
1135
c80c5570
PP
1136PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1137 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1138 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1139 "Got SSL error 2".
1140
076b11e2
PP
1141TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1142 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1143 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1144
5407bfff
JH
1145JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1146 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1147
9e45c72b
PP
1148JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1149
e74376d8
PP
1150PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1151 diagnostics.
1152 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1153
4c04137d 1154PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1155 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1156 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1157
7be682ca
PP
1158PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1159 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1160 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1161 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1162
ef840681
PP
1163PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1164 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1165
5bfb4cdf
PP
1166PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1167 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1168 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1169 resolver implementation change.
1170
c6e95d22
PP
1171PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1172 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1173
9cbad13b
PP
1174PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1175
9ee44efb
PP
1176PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1177
6a6084f8
PP
1178PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1179 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1180
12dd53c7
PP
1181PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1182 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1183
9e45c72b 1184JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1185 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1186
17c76198
PP
1187PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1188 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1189 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1190 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1191 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1192
53947857 1193PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1194
eae0036b 1195PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1196 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1197 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1198
9e45c72b 1199JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1200
7390e768
PP
1201PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1202 read-only, out of scope).
1203 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1204
08488c86
PP
1205PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1206 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1207 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1208 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1209
6475bd82
PP
1210PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1211
81f91683
PP
1212PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1213 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1214 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1215 real issues in debug logging.
1216
5779e6aa
PP
1217PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1218 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1219
3375e053
PP
1220PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1221 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1222 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1223
1224PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1225 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1226 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1227 problems.
3375e053 1228
9d26b8c0
PP
1229PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1230 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1231
57eb9e91 1232PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1233 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1234 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1235 needs to override this, it can.
1236
16880d1a
PP
1237PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1238 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1239 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1240
a799883d
PP
1241PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1242 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1243 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1244 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1245
3ecab157 1246PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1247
0599f9cf 1248
867fcbf5
PP
1249Exim version 4.77
1250-----------------
1251
1252PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1253 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1254
f1a29782
TF
1255TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1256
ab42bd23
TK
1257TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1258 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1259
0ca0cf52
TF
1260TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1261 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1262
921b12ca
TF
1263TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1264 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1265 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1266
1267 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1268 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1269 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1270 not safe for signals.
1271
1272 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1273 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1274 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1275 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1276 exiwhat.
1277
c99ce5c9
TF
1278TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1279
1280 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1281 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1282 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1283 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1284 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1285
1286 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1287 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1288 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1289 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1290 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1291 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1292
1293 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1294 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1295 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1296 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1297
1298 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1299 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1300 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1301 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1302
1303 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1304 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1305 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1306 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1307 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1308 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1309 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1310 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1311 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1312
1313 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1314 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1315 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1316 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1317
1318 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1319 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1320 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1321 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1322 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1323 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1324 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1325 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1326 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1327 details in the main documentation.
1328
3634fc25
TF
1329TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1330
792e8a19
TF
1331TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1332
5901f0ab
TF
1333TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1334 repository when doing development or release builds.
1335
7f2a2a43
PP
1336PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1337 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1338
061b7ebd
PP
1339PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1340 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1341 Bugzilla 97.
1342
e12f8c32
PP
1343PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1344
9e949f00 1345PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1346 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1347
1348PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1349 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1350
555ae6af 1351PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1352 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1353
1354PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1355 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1356
6f7fe114
PP
1357PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1358 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1359
c566dd90
PP
1360PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1361 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1362 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1363 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1364
d6cc7c78 1365PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1366 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1367 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1368
0d0e4455
PP
1369PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1370
3399bb60 1371PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1372
1373PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1374 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1375
0ca0cf52 1376
10906672
PP
1377Exim version 4.76
1378-----------------
1379
1380PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1381
754a0503
PP
1382PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1383 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1384
c0c7b2da
PP
1385PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1386
e97d1f08
PP
1387PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1388
084c1d8c
PP
1389PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1390 Bugzilla 1098.
1391
4e7ee012
PP
1392PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1393 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1394
c8d52a00
PP
1395TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1396 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1397
54e7ce4a
PP
1398PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1399 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1400
5ee6f336
PP
1401PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1402 Bugzilla 1104.
1403
c8d52a00 1404TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1405 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1406
1407TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1408 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1409 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1410 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1411
1412PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1413 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1414
10906672 1415
aa097c4c
NM
1416Exim version 4.75
1417-----------------
1418
4c04137d 1419NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1420 Bugzilla 1073
1421
7f3d9eff
TF
1422TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1423 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1424 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1425
159f52d2
TF
1426TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1427 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1428
0cc9542a
PP
1429PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1430 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1431 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1432
f7274286
PP
1433PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1434 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1435
7b797365
PP
1436PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1437 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1438
caacae52
NM
1439NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1440 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1441
09dcaba9
NM
1442NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1443 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1444
bc19a55b
PP
1445PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1446 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1447
bd4c9759
NM
1448NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1449 Fixes bug 943.
1450
b72aab72
PP
1451PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1452 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1453
2fe76745
PP
1454PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1455 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1456
76aa570c
PP
1457PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1458 SQL string expansion failure details.
1459 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1460
f1e5fef5
PP
1461PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1462 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1463
4d805ee9
PP
1464PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1465 extern declarations in function scope.
1466 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1467
cd59ab18
PP
1468PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1469 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1470 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1471 a kernel bug).
1472
332f5cf3
PP
1473PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1474 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1475
29cfeb94
PP
1476PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1477 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1478
660242ad
PP
1479PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1480 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1481
bc4bc4c5
PP
1482PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1483 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1484
2e64baa9
NM
1485NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1486 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1487 Dennis Davis.
1488
4c04137d 1489PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1490
6bac1a9a
PP
1491PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1492
552193f0
NM
1493NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1494 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1495
1b587e48
TF
1496TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1497 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1498
aa097c4c 1499
8c07b69f
TF
1500Exim version 4.74
1501-----------------
1502
1503TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1504 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1505
c0ea85ab
TF
1506TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1507 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1508
0761d44e
TF
1509TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1510
0a349494
PP
1511DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1512 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1513 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1514
1515PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1516 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1517 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1518
fea24b2e
PP
1519PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1520 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1521 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1522 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1523
6545de78
PP
1524PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1525 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1526 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1527 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1528
1670ef10
PP
1529PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1530 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1531 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1532 arbitrary files.
1533
c0886197
PP
1534PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1535 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1536
b7487bce
PP
1537PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1538 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1539 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1540 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1541 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1542
8c07b69f 1543
97fd1e48 1544Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1545-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1546
1547PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1548 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1549 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1550
6901c596
PP
1551PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1552 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1553
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1554JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1555
77bb000f
PP
1556PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1557
a29e5231
PP
1558PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1559
ec5a0394 1560PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1561
55c75993
PP
1562PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1563
453a6645 1564PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1565 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1566 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1567 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1568
8544e77a
PP
1569PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1570 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1571 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1572 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1573 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1574
83e029d5
PP
1575PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1576
ed7f7860
PP
1577PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1578
7d9f747b
PP
1579PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1580
4b2241d2
PP
1581PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1582
10385c15
PP
1583PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1584
dbc4b90d
PP
1585PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1586
532be449
PP
1587PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1588
6a8de854 1589PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1590 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1591 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1592
5dc43717
JJ
1593JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1594
1595JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1596 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1597
3346ab01
PP
1598PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1599 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1600
491fab4c
PP
1601PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1602 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1603 Notification from John Horne.
1604
13eb9497
PP
1605PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1606 compatible.
1607
1608PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1609 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1610 it normally works.
1611
7f36d675
DW
1612DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1613 access.
1614
c1d94452
DW
1615DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1616 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1617 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1618
e2f5dc15
DW
1619DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1620 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1621 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1622 configuration file.
1623
cd25e41d
DW
1624DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1625 option (effectively making it always true).
1626
261dc43e
DW
1627DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1628 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1629
fa32850b
DW
1630DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1631 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1632
79d4bc3d
PP
1633PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1634 run-time user, instead of root.
1635
43236f35 1636PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1637 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1638
fb08281f
DW
1639DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1640 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1641 arguments.
3346ab01 1642
74935b98
DW
1643DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1644 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1645 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1646
90b6341f
DW
1647DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1648
57730b52
ML
1649NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1650
66581d1e 1651
465e92cf
JJ
1652Exim version 4.72
1653-----------------
1654
453a6645
PP
1655JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1656 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1657 typos
465e92cf 1658
453a6645
PP
1659JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1660 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1661 (Finput)
edae0343 1662
9bd3e22c
NM
1663NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1664 Patch from Alain Williams
1665
bb576ff7
NM
1666NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1667
5a1a5845
NM
1668NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1669 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1670
981a9fad
NM
1671NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1672 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1673
7fc497ee
NM
1674NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1675
1a41defa
JJ
1676JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1677
a466095c 1678NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1679 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1680
94a6bd0b
NM
1681TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1682
1683TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1684
1685MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1686 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1687 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1688
c1b141a8
NM
1689NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1690 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1691
b26eacf1 1692NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1693 Patch by Simon Arlott
1694
179c5980 1695PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1696 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1697
9bd3e22c 1698
7c6d71af
NM
1699Exim version 4.71
1700-----------------
1701
7d9f747b 1702TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1703
f013fb92
NM
1704NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1705
0eb8eedd
NM
1706NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1707
663ee6d9
NM
1708NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1709
177ebd9b
NM
1710NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1711
7c6d71af 1712
210f147e
NM
1713Exim version 4.70
1714-----------------
1715
cdd3bb85 1716TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1717 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1718
1719TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1720 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1721 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1722
1723TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1724 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1725 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1726
1727TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1728 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1729
210f147e
NM
1730NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1731 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1732 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1733 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1734
deafd5b3
NM
1735NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1736 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1737 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1738
089793a4
TF
1739TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1740
5f16ca82
TF
1741TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1742
dae9d94e 1743NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1744 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1745
7d9f747b 1746NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1747
06864c44
TF
1748TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1749 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1750 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1751 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1752
65a7d8c3 1753NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1754 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1755
23510047 1756TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1757
7d9f747b 1758NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1759
7d8eec3a 1760NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1761 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1762
89dec7b6
TF
1763TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1764 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1765
a99de90c
TF
1766TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1767 that they are available at delivery time.
1768
e2803e40
TF
1769TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1770
7199e1ee
TF
1771TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1772 incoming_port log selectors.
1773
e276e04b
TF
1774TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1775 setting expands to an empty string.
1776
ce552449 1777NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1778 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1779
e765a0f1 1780NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1781 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1782
4f054c63 1783NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1784 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1785
7d9f747b
PP
1786NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1787 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1788
7d9f747b
PP
1789NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1790 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1791
b52bc06e 1792NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1793 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1794
447de4b0
NM
1795NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1796
4c69d561 1797NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1798 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1799
d5c39246 1800NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1801 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1802
0b23848a
TK
1803TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1804
8f3414a1 1805NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1806 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1807
fb6f955d
NM
1808NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1809
1810NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1811
7d9f747b
PP
1812NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1813 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1814
7d9f747b
PP
1815NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1816 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1817
7d9f747b
PP
1818NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1819 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1820
7d9f747b
PP
1821NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1822 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1823
7d9f747b
PP
1824NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1825 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1826
7d9f747b
PP
1827NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1828 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1829
7d9f747b
PP
1830NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1831 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1832
7d9f747b 1833NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1834 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1835
7d9f747b 1836NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1837
7d9f747b
PP
1838NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1839 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1840
7d9f747b 1841NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1842
7d9f747b 1843NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1844
7d9f747b 1845NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1846
7d9f747b 1847NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1848
17792b53 1849NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1850 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1851
7d9f747b
PP
1852NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1853 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1854
91576cec 1855NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1856 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1857
7d9f747b
PP
1858NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1859 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1860
7d9f747b 1861NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1862
7d9f747b 1863NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1864
7d9f747b 1865NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1866
7d9f747b 1867NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1868
deafd5b3 1869
47db1125
NM
1870Exim version 4.69
1871-----------------
1872
4b3504d0
TK
1873TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1874 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1875 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1876
1877 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1878 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1879 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1880 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1881 build errors in sieve.c.
1882
81ea09ca
NM
1883NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1884 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1885 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1886
f13cddcb
SC
1887SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1888
7d9f747b 1889NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1890
7d9f747b 1891NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1892
7d9f747b 1893NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1894
1895
eb4c0de6
PH
1896Exim version 4.68
1897-----------------
1898
1899PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1900
6a3bceb1
PH
1901PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1902 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1903 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1904 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1905 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1906 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1907 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1908 for iplsearch lookups.
1909
1910 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1911 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1912 previously such lookups could never work.
1913
4c04137d 1914 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
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1915 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1916 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1917
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1918TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1919 version.
1920
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1921MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1922 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1923 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1924 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1925 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1926 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1927
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1928TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1929 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1930
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1931MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1932 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1933 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1934 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1935 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1936 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1937
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1938PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1939 local_scan API.
1940
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1941PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1942
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1943PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1944 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1945 encrypted.
1946
1947PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1948 by clients under certain conditions.
1949
aa6dc513
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1950PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1951 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1952
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1953PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1954
8f240103
PH
1955PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1956 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1957
1958PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1959
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1960PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1961
d52120f2
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1962PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1963
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1964PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1965 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1966
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1967PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1968
a4dc33a8
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1969PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1970 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1971
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1972PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1973
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1974PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1975
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1976PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1977 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1978 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1979 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1980
ddea74fa 1981PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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1982 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1983 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1984
ddea74fa 1985PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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1986 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1987
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1988PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1989
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1990PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1991
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1992PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1993
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1994PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1995 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1996 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1997
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1999Exim version 4.67
2000-----------------
2001
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2002MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2003 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2004 Jan Srzednicki.
2005
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2006PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2007 issue a MAIL command.
2008
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2009PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2010
2011 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2012
2013 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2014 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2015 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2016 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2017 item. This has been fixed.
2018
2019PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2020 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2021
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2022PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2023 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2024
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PH
2025PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2026 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2027 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2028
34c5e8dd
SC
2029SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2030
bbe15da8
PH
2031PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2032 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2033 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2034 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2035 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2036
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MH
2037MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2038 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2039 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2040
f0872424
PH
2041PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2042 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2043 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2044 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2045
b01dd148
PH
2046PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2047
6bf342e1
PH
2048PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2049
273f34d0
PH
2050PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2051 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2052 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2053 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2054 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2055
cf8b11a5
PH
2056PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2057
41c7c167
PH
2058PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2059 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2060 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2061 values).
2062
9c57cbc0
PH
2063PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2064
f3f065bb
PH
2065PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2066
047bdd8c
PH
2067PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2068
0ce9abe6
PH
2069PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2070
0e22dfd1
PH
2071PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2072
4c590bd1
PH
2073PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2074 no_callout_flush is set.
2075
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PH
2076PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2077 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2078 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2079 fixed.
2080
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PH
2081PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2082
e28326d8 2083PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2084 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
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PH
2085 other ACL rejections are.
2086
75b1493f
PH
2087PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2088 with slight modification.
2089
7c5214ec
PH
2090PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2091 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2092
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PH
2093PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2094 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2095 connection.
2096
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PH
2097PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2098 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2099
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SC
2100SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2101
c3611384
PH
2102PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2103 expansion side effects.
2104
5a11a7b4
PH
2105PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2106 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2107 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2108 be the same.
2109
0e20aff9
MH
2110MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2111 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2112 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2113
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2114PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2115 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2116 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2117 were accidentally chopped off.
2118
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PH
2119PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2120 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2121 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2122 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2123 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2124 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2125 pipelining has not been advertised.
2126
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PH
2127PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2128
42855d71
PH
2129PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2130 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2131 This has been fixed.
2132
57c2c631
PH
2133PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2134 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2135 reported on Solaris.
2136
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PH
2137PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2138 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2139 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2140 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2141 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2142 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2143 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2144
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PH
2145PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2146 cpus.
2147
d2ee6114
PH
2148PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2149
b2d5182b
PH
2150PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2151
79749a79
PH
2152PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2153 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
2154 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2155 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2156 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2157 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2158
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PH
2159PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2160 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2161 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2162 host_all_ignored option.
2163
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2164PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2165 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2166 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2167 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2168 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2169 is what is supposed to happen).
2170
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2171PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2172 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2173 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2174 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2175 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2176 uses the Exim user.
2177
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2178PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2179 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2180 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2181 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2182 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2183 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2184 users.
2185
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2186PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2187
8005d38e
SC
2188SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2189 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2190 (Jez Hancock).
2191 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2192 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2193
3298c6c6
SC
2194SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2195
a43a27c5
PH
2196PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2197
58eb016e 2198PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
2199 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2200 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2201 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2202 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2203 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2204 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2205 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2206 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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2207 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2208 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2209
b43a74ea
PH
2210PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2211 advertised in response to EHLO.
2212
b4ed4da0 2213
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2214Exim version 4.66
2215-----------------
2216
2217PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2218 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2219
2220 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2221 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2222
2223 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2224 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2225 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2226
2227 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2228 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2229 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2230 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2231 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2232
2233
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2234Exim version 4.65
2235-----------------
2236
2237TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2238 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2239 versions. (#438)
2240
d6066548
MH
2241MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2242 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2243 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2244
4362ff0d
PH
2245PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2246 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2247 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2248 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2249 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2250 rather than extend the field.
2251
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2253Exim version 4.64
2254-----------------
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TK
2256TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2257 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2258 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2259 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2260 these files.
2261
2262TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2263 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2264 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2265
2266TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2267 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2268 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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2269
2270TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2271 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2272 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2273 in the field name.
2274
2b1c6e3a
PH
2275PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2276 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2277 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2278 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2279 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2280 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2281 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2282 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2283 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2284 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2285 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2286
1f872c80
PH
2287PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2288 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2289
2290PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2291 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2292 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2293 ignores EPIPE as well.
2294
d203e649
PH
2295PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2296 (quoted-printable decoding).
2297
cc2ed8f7 2298PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2299 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2300
ddfcd446
PH
2301PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2302
d45b1de8
PH
2303PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2304
2305PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2306
38a0a95f 2307PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2308 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2309
a2405d83
JJ
2310JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2311 in 4.64-PH/09.
2312
2313JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2314 miscellaneous code fixes
2315
6ea85e9a
PH
2316PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2317 rejections.
2318
26da7e20
PH
2319PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2320 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2321 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2322 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2323 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2324 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2325 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2326 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2327
14aa5a05 2328PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2329 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2330 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2331 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2332 function.
2333 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2334 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2335 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2336 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2337 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2338 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2339 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2340 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2341 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2342
ff75a1f7
PH
2343PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2344 decoding.
2345
e6f6568e
PH
2346PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2347 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2348 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2349 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2350 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2351 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2352 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2353 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2354
d6f6e0dc
PH
2355PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2356 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2357 list.
2358
322050c2
PH
2359PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2360 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2361 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2362 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2363 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2364 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2365 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2366 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2367 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2368 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2369 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2370 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2371 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2372
08955dd3
PH
2373PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2374 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2375 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2376 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2377 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2378 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2379 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2380
1eccaa59
PH
2381PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2382 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2383 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2384 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2385 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2386 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2387 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2388 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2389 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2390 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2391
602e59e5
PH
2392PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2393 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2394 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2395 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2396 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2397
411ef850
PH
2398PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2399 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2400 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2401 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2402 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2403 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2404 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2405
7befa435
PH
2406PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2407 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2408 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2409 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2410 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2411 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2412 been verified.
2413
48da4259 2414PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2415 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2416 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2417 and authorization.)
2418
48da4259
PH
2419PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2420 if any retry times were supplied.
2421
d1d5595c
PH
2422PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2423 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2424 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2425
0ef732d9
PH
2426PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2427
328895cc
PH
2428PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2429
fd700877
PH
2430PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2431 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2432 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2433 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2434 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2435 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2436
8dce1a6f
PH
2437PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2438 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2439
17af4a17
PH
2440PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2441 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2442 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2443
2444PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2445 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2446 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2447 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2448 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2449 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2450 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2451 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2452 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2453
2454 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2455 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2456 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2457 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2458 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2459 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2460 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2461 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2462 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2463
2464 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2465 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2466 hammering the server.
2467
c1114884
PH
2468PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2469 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2470
7a0743eb
PH
2471PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2472
0d85fa3f
PH
2473PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2474 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2475 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2476
1bf43b78
PH
2477PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2478 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2479 one case where this was not true.
2480
520de300
PH
2481PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2482 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2483 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2484 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2485 fails.
2486
48c7f9e2
PH
2487PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2488 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2489 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2490 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2491 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2492 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2493 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2494 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2495 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2496 smtp transport.
2497
99ea1c86
PH
2498PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2499 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2500 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2501 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2502
a2042e78
PH
2503PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2504 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2505
4fbcfc2e
PH
2506PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2507 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2508 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2509
aa41d2de
PH
2510PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2511
af561417
PH
2512PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2513
3cc66b45
PH
2514PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2515
194cc0e4
PH
2516PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2517 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2518 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2519 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2520
a401ddaa
PH
2521PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2522 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2523
4e88a19f
PH
2524PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2525 be meaningful with "accept".
2526
d7d7b289
SC
2527SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2528 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2529
2530SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2531 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2532 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2533
2534SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2535 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2536 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2537 there is data to show.
2538 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2539
2540SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2541 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2542 as well as the number of messages.
2543
2544SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2545 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2546 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2547
2548SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2549 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2550 have a flag are now skipped.
2551
2552SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2553 Added the -emptyok flag.
2554
2555SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2556 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2557
0ea2a468
JJ
2558JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2559 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2560 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2561
2562JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2563 match 4.64-PH/13
2564
2565JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2566 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2567
2568JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2569
2570JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2571 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2572
8a10f5a4
PH
2573PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2574
30e18802
PH
2575PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2576 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2577 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2578 contravention of the specifications.
2579
55728a4f
PH
2580PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2581 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2582 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2583
d7837193
PH
2584PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2585 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2586 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2587
87054a31
PH
2588PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2589
ea2c01d2
MH
2590MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2591 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2592 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2593 some point in the past.
2594
e4fa6968
PH
2595PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2596 transport during callout processing was broken.
2597
56f5d9bd
PH
2598PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2599 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2600
922e1c28
PH
2601PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2602 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2603
21eb6e72
PH
2604PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2605 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2606
a0540757
PH
2607PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2608
944e9e9c 2609
478be7b0
SC
2610Exim version 4.63
2611-----------------
2612
2613SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2614 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2615
2616SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2617 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2618 there is data to show.
2619 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2620
2621SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2622 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2623
2b965a65
TF
2624TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2625 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2626
45b91596
PH
2627TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2628 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2629
c59f5781
TF
2630TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2631 submissions from trusted users.
2632
90fc3069
TF
2633TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2634 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2635
6083aca0
TF
2636TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2637 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2638 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2639 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2640 there is now a framework to start from.
2641
765b530f
PH
2642PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2643 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2644 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2645
4e167a8c
PH
2646PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2647
4608d683
PH
2648PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2649
b8dc3e4a
PH
2650PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2651
5418e93b
PH
2652PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2653 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2654 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2655
b4a9bda2
PH
2656PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2657 libradius.
2658
45b91596
PH
2659PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2660 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2661 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2662
5547e2c5
PH
2663PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2664 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2665 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2666 its arguments.
2667
dbcef0ea
PH
2668PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2669 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2670 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2671 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2672 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2673
25257489
PH
2674PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2675 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2676
c816d124
PH
2677PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2678
a9ccd69a
PH
2679PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2680 operations in malware.c.
2681
75fa1910
PH
2682PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2683 signatures.
2684
a7d7aa58
PH
2685PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2686 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2687 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2688 all.
2689
42119b09
PH
2690PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2691 statements to "add_header".
2692
41609df5
PH
2693PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2694 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2695
a5bd321b
PH
2696PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2697 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2698 latter.
2699
e85a7ad5 2700PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2701 so that it is now:
2702
e85a7ad5
PH
2703 ${if or { \
2704 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2705 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2706 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2707 }{no}{yes}}
2708
e85a7ad5
PH
2709 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2710 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2711
d8fe1c03
PH
2712PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2713 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2714
16282d2b
PH
2715PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2716 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2717 any possible encoding problems.
2718
35d40a98
PH
2719PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2720 but not after initializing Perl.
2721
034d99ab
PH
2722PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2723 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2724 apparently, which is not desirable.
2725
6ec97b1b
PH
2726PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2727 queries.
2728
e22ca4ac
JJ
2729JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2730 --not options
2731
2732JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2733
33d73e3b
PH
2734PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2735 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2736 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2737 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2738
9ecb03f3
PH
2739PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2740 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2741 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2742
084efe8d
PH
2743PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2744 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2745 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2746 0.12.
2747
366fc9f0
PH
2748PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2749 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2750 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2751 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2752 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2753
c59f5781 2754
c887c79e
TF
2755Exim version 4.62
2756-----------------
2757
2758TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2759 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2760
1cce3af8
PH
2761PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2762 patch).
2763
afb3eaaf
PH
2764PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2765 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2766 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2767 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2768 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2769 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2770 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2771 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2772 451 error is used.
2773
e173618b
PH
2774PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2775
dd16e114
PH
2776PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2777 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2778 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2779
f7fd3850
PH
2780PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2781 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2782 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2783 odd errors.
2784
d87df92c
PH
2785PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2786 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2787
7e9f683d
PH
2788PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2789 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2790 option (which defaults to 0600).
2791
bfad5236
PH
2792PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2793
01c490df
PH
2794PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2795 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2796 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2797 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2798 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2799 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2800 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2801
d6629cdc
PH
2802PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2803
1cce3af8 2804
214e2000
PH
2805Exim version 4.61
2806-----------------
2807
2808PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2809 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2810 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2811 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2812 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2813 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2814 addresses as local.
2815
f9daeae0
PH
2816PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2817 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2818
7e66e54d
PH
2819PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2820
c8ea1597
PH
2821PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2822 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2823 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2824 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2825 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2826 grumble.
2827
911f6fde
PH
2828PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2829 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2830
47ca6d6c
PH
2831PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2832 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2833 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2834 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2835 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2836
ed0e9820
PH
2837PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2838 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2839 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2840 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2841
eff37e47
PH
2842PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2843 be the same on different OS.
2844
1921d2ea
PH
2845PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2846 testing.
2847
b3f69ca8
JJ
2848JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2849 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2850
2851JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2852 in 4.61-PH/06
2853
424a1c63
PH
2854PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2855 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2856 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2857 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2858 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2859 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2860 bounce message.
2861
7a100415
PH
2862PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2863 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2864 when Exim was called.
2865
19b9dc85
PH
2866PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2867 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2868
309bd837
PH
2869PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2870 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2871 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2872 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2873
59e82a2a
PH
2874PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2875 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2876 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2877 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2878 changes:
2879
2880 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2881 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2882 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2883
2884 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2885 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2886 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2887
9edc04ce
PH
2888PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2889 feature).
2890
1349e1e5
PH
2891PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2892 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2893 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2894 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2895 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2896 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2897 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2898 values from the SRV records were lost.
2899
ea49d0e1
PH
2900PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2901 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2902 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2903
064a94c9
PH
2904PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2905 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2906 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2907
727071f8
PH
2908PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2909 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2910 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2911 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2912 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2913 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2914 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2915 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2916 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2917 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2918
f78eb7c6
PH
2919PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2920 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2921 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2922
21c28500
PH
2923PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2924 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2925
2926PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2927 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2928 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2929 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2930 is given.
2931
1688f43b
PH
2932PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2933 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2934 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2935
2936PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2937 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2938 PH/23 above applies.
2939
9675b384
PH
2940PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2941 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2942 (for which there is an explicit test).
2943
6a3f1455
PH
2944PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2945
dac79d3e
PH
2946PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2947 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2948 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2949 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2950 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2951
5977a0b3
PH
2952PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2953 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2954 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2955 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2956
c91535f3
PH
2957PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2958 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2959 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2960
0d46a8c8
PH
2961PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2962
278c6e6c
PH
2963PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2964
2cbb4081
PH
2965PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2966 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2967 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2968
3eef829e
PH
2969PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2970 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2971 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2972 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2973 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2974
1ab95fa6
PH
2975PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2976 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2977 the message gets confusing).
2978
230205fc
PH
2979PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2980 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2981 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2982 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2983
75e0e026
PH
2984PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2985 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2986 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2987 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2988 same order.
2989
2990PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2991 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2992 the different processes.
2993
145396a6
PH
2994PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2995
3cd34f13
PH
2996PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2997
11121d3d
JJ
2998JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2999 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3000
3001JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3002 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3003
3004JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3005 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3006 messages matching specified criteria.
3007
8def5aaf
PH
3008PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3009
929ba01c
PH
3010PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3011 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3012
2632889e
PH
3013PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3014 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3015 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3016 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3017 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3018 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3019 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3020 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3021 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3022 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3023
944a9c55
PH
3024PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3025 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3026 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3027
4a23603b
PH
3028PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3029
4730f942
PH
3030PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3031 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3032 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3033 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3034 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3035 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3036 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3037 the variable.
3038
30dba1e6
PH
3039PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3040 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3041
382afc6b
PH
3042PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3043
a86229cf
PH
3044PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3045
50c99ba6
PH
3046PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3047
d35e429d
PH
3048PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3049 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3050 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3051 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3052 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3053 size of the count of files.
3054
f90d018c
PH
3055PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3056
75def545
PH
3057PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3058 used in LMTP mode:
3059
3060 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3061 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3062 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3063 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3064
3065 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3066 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3067 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3068
3069PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3070 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3071 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3072 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3073 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3074
c46782ef
PH
3075PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3076 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3077
71fafd95
PH
3078PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3079 will now be deprecated.
3080
2c5db4fd
PH
3081PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3082
9cf6b11a
JJ
3083JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3084 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3085 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3086
3087JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3088 with very large, slow to parse queues
3089
3090JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3091
3092JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3093
898d150f
PH
3094PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3095 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3096 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3097 SMTP output lines.
3098
46218253
PH
3099PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3100 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3101 Sieve code now uses this.
3102
e97957bc
PH
3103PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3104 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3105
81e509d7
PH
3106PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3107 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3108
3d240ff7
PH
3109PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3110
b37c4101
PH
3111PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3112 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3113 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3114 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3115 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3116
79378e0f
PH
3117PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3118 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3119 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3120 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3121
e49c7bb4
PH
3122PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3123
d114ec46
PH
3124PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3125
f3d7df6c
PH
3126PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3127 is preferred over IPv4.
3128
715ab376
PH
3129PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3130 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3131 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3132 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3133 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3134 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3135 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3136
6b31b150
PH
3137PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3138 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3139 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3140
3141PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3142
d515a917
PH
3143PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3144 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3145 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3146 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3147 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3148 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3149 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3150 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3151 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3152 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3153 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3154
9b8fadde
PH
3155PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3156 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3157 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3158
214e2000 3159
5de37277
PH
3160Exim version 4.60
3161-----------------
3162
cc38ddbf
PH
3163PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3164
3165 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3166 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3167
3168 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3169 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3170 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3171
72fdd6ae
PH
3172PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3173
3174 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3175 not a single digit.
3176
3177 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3178 string.
3179
3180 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3181 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3182 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3183 silly things.
3184
3185 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3186 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3187
3188 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3189 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3190
cb741023
PH
3191PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3192 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3193 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3194
f174f16e
PH
3195PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3196 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3197
c25242d7
PH
3198PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3199 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3200
3201 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3202
3203 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3204 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3205 this:
3206
3207 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3208
82c19f95
PH
3209PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3210 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3211 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3212 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3213 identical. For example:
3214
3215 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3216
3217 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3218 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3219 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3220
d7ffbc12
PH
3221PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3222 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3223 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3224 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3225
9f526266
PH
3226PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3227 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3228 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3229 message.
3230
87fcc8b9
PH
3231PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3232
3233 o fixes some comments
3234 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3235 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3236 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3237 and documents the missing references header update
3238
3239 and most important:
3240
3241 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3242 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3243 result)
3244
456682f5
PH
3245PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3246 Electronic Mail") by including:
3247
3248 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3249
3250 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3251 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3252 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3253 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3254 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3255
3256 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3257
3258 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3259
3260 The auto-replied keyword:
3261
3262 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3263 message by an automatic process,
3264
3265 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3266
3267 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3268 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3269
3270 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3271 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3272 other messages.
3273
3e46c1aa
PH
3274PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3275 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3276
49826d12
PH
3277PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3278
eba0c039
PH
3279PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3280 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3281 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3282
a0d6ba8a
PH
3283PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3284 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3285 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3286
f0917727
PH
3287PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3288 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3289 and treats the condition as false.
3290
096fee00
PH
3291PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3292
024bd3c2
PH
3293PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3294 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3295 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3296 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3297 not changing the active code.
3298
3299 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3300 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3301
3302 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3303 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3304
df199fec
PH
3305PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3306 (Bugzilla #53).
3307
d27f1df3
PH
3308PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3309 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3310 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3311 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3312 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3313 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3314 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3315 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3316 the text comparison.
3317
96776534
PH
3318PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3319 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3320 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3321 The same fix has been applied.
3322
5de37277 3323
9a799bc0
PH
3324Exim version 4.54
3325-----------------
3326
3327PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3328 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3329 It now does.
3330
99a4b039
PH
3331PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3332 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3333
3334PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3335
4b233853
PH
3336PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3337 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3338 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3339 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3340 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3341
8857ccfd
PH
3342TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3343 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3344 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3345 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3346 or /domain=).
3347
433a2980
PH
3348PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3349 testing suite.
3350
3e46c1aa 3351
9a799bc0 3352
e3a311ba
TK
3353Exim version 4.53
3354-----------------
3355
3356TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3357 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3358
13b685f9
PH
3359PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3360
395ff96d
PH
3361PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3362
5b68f6e4
PH
3363PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3364 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3365 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3366
1ab52c69
PH
3367PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3368 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3369 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3370
b07e6aa3
PH
3371PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3372 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3373 operating systems.
3374
254e032f
PH
3375PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3376 ${stat: expansion item.
3377
3af76a81
PH
3378PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3379 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3380
2548ba04
PH
3381PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3382 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3383 file for comments.
3384
b6c6011d
PH
3385PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3386
cf39cf57
PH
3387PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3388 setting.
3389
f1513293
PH
3390PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3391 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3392
727549a4
PH
3393TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3394
af46795e
PH
3395PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3396 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3397 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3398 the end of the subprocess.
3399
d7b47fd0
PH
3400PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3401 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3402 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3403 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3404 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3405
ee744174
JJ
3406JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3407
b582ab87
PH
3408TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3409
41a13e0a
PH
3410PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3411 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3412
f625cc5a
PH
3413PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3414
3415PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3416
21f7af35
PH
3417PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3418 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3419 HP-UX compiler.
3420
31480e42
PH
3421PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3422
2d280592
PH
3423PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3424 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3425 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3426
7cd1141b
PH
3427PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3428 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3429
3430PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3431 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3432
750af86e
PH
3433PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3434 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3435
3436 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3437 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3438
3439 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3440 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3441 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3442 contributed by a Radius user.
3443
3444PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3445 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3446
4304270b
TK
3447TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3448 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3449
750af86e
PH
3450PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3451 available.
3452
64ffc24f
PH
3453PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3454 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3455 received.
3456
5dd9625b
PH
3457PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3458 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3459 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3460 header lines when this was not necessary.
3461
5591031b
PH
3462PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3463
ba18e66a
PH
3464PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3465 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3466 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3467 exists".
3468
9cec981f
PH
3469PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3470 -bV or -d is used.
3471
aa2b5c79
PH
3472PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3473 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3474 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3475 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3476
48a53b7f
PH
3477PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3478
1c59d63b
PH
3479PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3480
671012da
TK
3481TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3482
1509d3a8
PH
3483PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3484
3485PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3486 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3487 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3488 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3489 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3490 settings.
3491
3492PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3493
2fe1a124
PH
3494PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3495 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3496 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3497 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3498 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3499 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3500 which is clearly wrong.
3501
8800895a
PH
3502PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3503
ccfdb010
PH
3504PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3505 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3506 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3507 subsequently added.
3508
1130bfb0
PH
3509PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3510 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3511
ebcb507f
PH
3512PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3513
c35e155c
PH
3514PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3515 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3516
95d1f782
PH
3517PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3518 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3519
fd6de02e
PH
3520PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3521 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3522
58de37c5
PH
3523PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3524 recipients, not senders.
3525
261cf466
TF
3526TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3527 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3528
3ee512ff
PH
3529PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3530
e08c430f
PH
3531PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3532
bef5a11f
PH
3533PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3534 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3535 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3536 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3537
7546de58
TF
3538TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3539
e5d5a95f
TF
3540TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3541 clock is set back in time.
3542
2e88a017
TF
3543TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3544 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3545
a5f65aa4
TF
3546TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3547 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3548
e7726cbf
PH
3549PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3550 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3551 (see PH/47 above).
3552
a7fdad5b
TF
3553TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3554 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3555 header rewrites.
3556
6af56900
PH
3557PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3558 type ("H").
3559
0925ede6
PH
3560PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3561
66afa403
TF
3562TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3563 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3564 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3565
0154e85a
TF
3566TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3567 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3568 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3569 helo verification defer as a failure.
3570
16f12c76
PH
3571PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3572 actual error message.
3573
bbe902f0 3574
e5a9dba6
PH
3575Exim version 4.52
3576-----------------
3577
3578TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3579
22c3b60b
PH
3580PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3581 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3582 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3583 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3584
06a9b4b5
PH
3585TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3586
c1ac6996
PH
3587PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3588 can still be requested.
3589
9c7a242c
PH
3590PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3591 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3592 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3593 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3594
87ba3f5f
PH
3595TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3596 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3597 circumstances, but probably never did.
3598
3599PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3600 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3601 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3602 in the header line.
3603
29aba418
TF
3604TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3605
fe0dab11
TF
3606TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3607 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3608
11d337a4
TK
3609TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3610
3611TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3612
415c8f3b
PH
3613PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3614 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3615 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3616 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3617 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3618 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3619
958541e9
PH
3620PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3621 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3622 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3623 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3624 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3625 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3626
c206415f
TK
3627TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3628 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3629
2a4be8f9
PH
3630PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3631 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3632
1cba11c5
SC
3633SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3634 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3635
4c04137d 3636SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3637
3638SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3639
3640SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3641
3642SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3643
3644SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3645
3646SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3647
1005d00e
TK
3648TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3649
3650TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3651 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3652 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3653
3654TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3655 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3656 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3657 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3658
9b4768fa
PH
3659PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3660 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3661 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3662
3663PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3664 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3665 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3666 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3667
0d7eb84a
PH
3668PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3669 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3670 to be made).
3671
3672PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3673 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3674 should work with maildirs and everything.
3675
40727bee
TK
3676TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3677 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3678
554d2369
TF
3679TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3680 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3681
1f922db1
PH
3682PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3683 function for BDB 4.3.
3684
ef213c3b
PH
3685PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3686
8ac170f3
PH
3687PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3688 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3689 involved.
3690
b1c749bb
PH
3691PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3692 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3693 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3694 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3695 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3696 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3697
4aac9b49
PH
3698PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3699 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3700 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3701 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3702 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3703 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3704 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3705 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3706
294520c8
TK
3707TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3708 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3709 details.
3710
5bd022fe
PH
3711PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3712 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3713
90e9ce59
PH
3714PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3715 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3716 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3717 test. It is now used for both.
3718
5ea81592
PH
3719PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3720 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3721 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3722 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3723 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3724 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3725
c6c2dc1d
PH
3726PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3727 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3728 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3729 string_vformat().
3730
fffffe4c
PH
3731PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3732 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3733 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3734
9a26b6b2
PH
3735PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3736 experimental DomainKeys support:
3737
3738 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3739 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3740 the control was given.
3741
3742 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3743
4aee0225
PH
3744PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3745
32d668a5
PH
3746PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3747
8187c3f3
PH
3748PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3749 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3750 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3751 db.h files).
3752
ff790e47 3753PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3754 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3755 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3756 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3757 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3758 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3759 course.
ff790e47 3760
5417f6d1
PH
3761PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3762 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3763 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3764 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3765 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3766 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3767
59cf8544
PH
3768PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3769 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3770 do -d+all out of habit.
3771
e7ad8a65
PH
3772PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3773 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3774 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3775
ade42478
PH
3776PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3777 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3778 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3779 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3780 record types that Exim uses.
3781
182ad5cf
PH
3782PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3783 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3784 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3785 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3786 non-existent file that was broken.
3787
b0d9fc80
TK
3788TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3789 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3790
3791TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3792 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3793 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3794
3795TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3796
47c7a64a
PH
3797PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3798 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3799 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3800 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3801 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3802 same time.
3803
a388bce4
SC
3804SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3805 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3806 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3807 at a slight CPU cost.
3808
3809SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3810 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3811
3812SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3813 by Marc Sherman.
3814
0793e4ed
SC
3815SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3816
c58b88df
PH
3817PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3818 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3819
e7ad8a65 3820
7982096b
PH
3821Exim version 4.51
3822-----------------
3823
1a46a8c5
PH
3824TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3825 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3826
2f079f46 3827TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3828
3829TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3830
3831PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3832 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3833
3834PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3835 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3836 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3837 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3838 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3839 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3840 file.
3841
3842PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3843 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3844 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3845 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3846 these two options.
3847
3848PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3849 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3850 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3851 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3852 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3853 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3854 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3855 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3856
3857PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3858 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3859
3860PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3861 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3862 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3863 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3864 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3865 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3866
3867PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3868 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3869 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3870 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3871
3872PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3873 Finch).
3874
3875PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3876 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3877
49c2d5ea
PH
3878PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3879 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3880 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3881 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3882 message.
49c2d5ea 3883
bf759a8b
PH
3884PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3885
83364d30
PH
3886PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3887 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3888
7999bbd7
PH
3889PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3890 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3891 to what was transported.)
3892
7dbf77c9
PH
3893TF/01 Added $received_time.
3894
74e0617f
PH
3895PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3896 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3897 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3898 spamd_address settings.
3899
2f079f46
PH
3900PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3901 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3902 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3903 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3904 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3905
8c841523
PH
3906PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3907
7766a4f0
PH
3908PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3909 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3910 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3911 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3912 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3913
8b417f2c
PH
3914PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3915 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3916
901f42cb
PH
3917PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3918 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3919 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3920 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3921 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3922 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3923 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3924 for failure.
3925
f9b9210e
PH
3926PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3927 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3928 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3929 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3930 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3931 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3932 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3933 "input=".
3934
54cdb463
PH
3935PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3936
cf00dad6
PH
3937PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3938 driver and ACL definitions.
3939
acb1b346
PH
3940PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3941 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3942
c5ddb310
PH
3943PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3944 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3945 understands it better than I do:
3946
3947 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3948 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3949
3950 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3951 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3952 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3953 => three warnings about OTP not working
3954 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3955
3956 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3957 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3958 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3959 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3960 for each call.)
3961 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3962 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3963
3964 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3965 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3966 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3967
31619da6
PH
3968PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3969 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3970 specified.
3971
bebaf0fc
PH
3972PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3973 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3974 "Linux".
3975
475fe28a
PH
3976PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3977 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3978 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3979
3980 warn !verify = sender
3981 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3982
3983 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3984 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3985
7e8bec7a
PH
3986PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3987
3988 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3989 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3990
3991 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3992 nomenclature these days.)
3993
e4a89c47
PH
3994PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3995 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3996
5ca2a9a1
PH
3997PH/30 In these circumstances:
3998 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3999 . First host does not offer TLS;
4000 . First host accepts first address;
4001 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4002 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4003 . Second host accepts second address.
4004 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4005 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4006 address.
7e8bec7a 4007
c688b954
PH
4008PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4009 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4010 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4011 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4012 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4013
fed77020
PH
4014PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4015 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4016
7fe1560f
PH
4017PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4018 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4019
ebb6e6d5
PH
4020PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4021 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4022 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4023
9c4e8f60
PH
4024PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4025 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4026 overlooked.
4027
4028PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4029
d7174846
PH
4030PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4031 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4032 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4033 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4034 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4035 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4036 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4037
4038 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4039 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4040 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4041 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4042 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4043
4044 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4045 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4046 routed further.
4047
cfe75fc3
PH
4048PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4049 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4050 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4051 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4052 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4053 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4054
be22d70e
PH
4055PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4056
0612b098
PH
4057PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4058 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4059 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4060 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4061 printable escape sequences.
4062
2e0c1448
PH
4063PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4064 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4065 body only.
4066
447d236c
PH
4067PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4068 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4069 are as follows:
4070
4071 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4072 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4073 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4074 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4075 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4076
4077 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4078 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4079 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4080
d20976dc
PH
4081PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4082
f656d135
PH
4083PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4084 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4085 play with."
4086
2e2a30b4
PH
4087PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4088 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4089 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4090 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4091 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4092 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4093 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4094 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4095 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4096 the log output.
4097
9176e9f0
PH
4098PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4099 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4100 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4101 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4102 "make".
4103
7982096b 4104
bbe902f0
PH
4105A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4106----------------------------------------
4107
4108Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4109changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4110needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4111in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4112that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4113release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4114from 4.43.
4115
4116I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
41174.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4118those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4119historical information.
4120
4121
f7b63901 4122Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4123-----------------
4124
5fe762f6
PH
4125 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4126
139059f6 4127 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4128 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4129
7086e875
PH
4130 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4131 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4132 place.
4133
35af9f61
PH
4134 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4135 filter fails to execute.
4136
b668c215
PH
4137 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4138 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4139 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4140 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4141 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4142
a494b1e1
PH
4143 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4144
4145 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4146 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4147 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4148 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4149
c5fcb476
PH
4150 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4151 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4152 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4153 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4154 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4155
69358f02
PH
4156 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4157
5be20824
PH
415810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4159
eb2c0248
PH
416011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4161 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4162 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4163 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4164
2a3eea10
PH
416512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4166 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4167 sender verification.
4168
416913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4170 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4171
23c7ff99
PH
417214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4173
4deaf07d
PH
417415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4175 connection timeout.
4176
926e1192
PH
417716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4178 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4179
650edc6f
PH
418017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4181 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4182
2c7db3f5
PH
418318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4184 information about exactly what failed.
4185
3d235903
PH
418619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4187
7c7ad977
PH
418820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4189 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4190 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4191
981756db
PH
419221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4193 It is now set to "smtps".
4194
d4eb88df
PH
419522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4196 ignore_target_hosts.
4197
419823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4199 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4200 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4201 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4202 "[x.x.x.x]".
4203
7d468ab8
PH
420424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4205 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4206 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4207
420825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4209 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4210 wake it up if nothing else does.
4211
62c0818f
PH
421226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4213 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4214 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4215 end up negative.
4216
26034054
PH
421727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4218 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4219
af66f652
PH
422028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4221
90af77f4
PH
422229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4223 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4224 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4225 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4226 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4227 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4228 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4229 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4230
d8ef3577
PH
423130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4232 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4233 than one IP address.
4234
5cb8cbc6
PH
423531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4236 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4237 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4238 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4239
14702f5b
PH
424032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4241 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4242 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4243 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4244 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4245 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4246
063b1e99
PH
424733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4248 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4249 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4250 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4251
652e1b65
PH
425234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4253 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4254 respected.
4255
6f0c9a4f
PH
425635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4257 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4258 $sender_host_address.
4259
33397d19
PH
426036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4261 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4262 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4263 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4264 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4265 very small.
4266
7bb56e1f
PH
426737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4268
4269 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4270 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4271
ea3bc19b
PH
4272 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4273 just the host names, not the priorities.
4274
4275 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4276 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4277 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4278
ea3bc19b 4279 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4280 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4281
0bcb2a0e
PH
428238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4283 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4284 domain.
4285
2ac0e484
PH
428639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4287
4e1fde53
PH
428840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4289 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4290
de365ded
PH
429141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4292 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4293 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4294
f05da2e8
PH
429542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4296
d6453af2
PH
429743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4298
f7b63901
PH
429944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4300
430145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4302 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4303 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4304 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4305 because the tests only now provoked it.
4306
a444213a
PH
430746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4308 (this can affect the format of dates).
4309
0ec020ea
PH
431047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4311 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4312 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4313 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4314
b1206957
PH
431548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4316
431749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4318 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4319 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4320 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4321
26dd5a95
PH
432250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4323 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4324 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4325
343b2385
PH
432651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4327 autoreply.
4328
1c5466b9
PH
432952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4330 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4331 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4332 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4333 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4334 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4335 is going on).
4336
55ee9ee3
PH
433753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4338 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4339 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4340 the line.
4341
d38f8232
PH
434254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4343 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4344 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4345
4346 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4347 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4348 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4349 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4350 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4351 so I produce this patch..."
4352
3295e65b
PH
4353 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4354 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4355 is not defined.
4356
7102e136
PH
435755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4358 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4359 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4360 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4361 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4362
3ca0ba97
PH
436356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4364
c2bcbe20
PH
436557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4366 long debug lines gets shown.
4367
18ce445d
PH
436858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4369 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4370
1f5b4c3d
PH
437159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4372
4373 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4374 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4375 of $primary_hostname.
4376
b975ba52
PH
437760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4378 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4379 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4380 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4381 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4382 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4383 by change 4.50/55 above.
4384
4385 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4386 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4387 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4388 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4389 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4390 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4391 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4392
439361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4394 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4395 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4396 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4397
17ffcae7
PH
439862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4399 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4400
d95f9fdb
PH
440163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4402 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4403 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4404 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4405 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4406
86b8287f
PH
440764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4408 This has been fixed.
4409
60dc5e56
PH
441065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4411 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4412 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4413 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4414 the caching.)
4415
533244af
PH
441666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4417
a5a28604
PH
441867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4419 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4420 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4421 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4422
7e634d24
PH
442368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4424 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4425
3e11c26b
PH
442669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4427 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4428 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4429
6729cf78
PH
443070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4431 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4432 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4433 message there.
4434
00f00ca5
PH
443571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4436 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4437 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4438
c9bdd01c
PH
443972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4440 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4441 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4442 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4443
d43194df
PH
444473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4445 during host lookups.
4446
fe5b5d0b
PH
444774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4448 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4449
4450 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4451
76a2d7ba
PH
445275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4453 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4454 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4455 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4456 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4457 background.
4458
445976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4460 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4461
04f7d5b9
PH
446277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4463 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4464 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4465
bc60667e
PH
446678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4467
bb6e88ff
PH
446879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4469 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4470 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4471 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4472 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4473 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4474 process earlier.
4475
1e70f85b
PH
447680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4477 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4478 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4479 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4480 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4481
448281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4483 tables).
4484
4e01f9d6
PH
448582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4486
1ee1cef2
PH
448783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4488 "vacation" handling.
4489
6e2b4ccc
PH
449084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4491 OS variants using glibc.
4492
8e669ac1
PH
449385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4494
495ae4b0 4495
bbe902f0
PH
4496----------------------------------------------------
4497See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4498----------------------------------------------------
4499
4500
4501Exim version 4.44
4502-----------------
4503
4504 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4505 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4506 transport
4507
4508 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4509 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4510 place.
4511
4512 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4513 filter fails to execute.
4514
4515 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4516 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4517 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4518 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4519 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4520
4521 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4522 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4523 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4524 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4525
4526 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4527 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4528 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4529 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4530 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4531
4532 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4533
4534 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4535 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4536 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4537 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4538
4539 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4540 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4541 sender verification.
4542
454310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4544 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4545
454611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4547 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4548
454912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4550 ignore_target_hosts.
4551
455213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4553 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4554 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4555 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4556 "[x.x.x.x]".
4557
455814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4559 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4560 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4561
456215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4563 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4564 wake it up if nothing else does.
4565
456616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4567 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4568 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4569 end up negative.
4570
457117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4572 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4573
ea3a6f44 457418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4575
457619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4577 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4578 empty pattern.
4579
458020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4581 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4582 one IP address.
4583
ea3a6f44
NM
458421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4585 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4586 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4587 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4588 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4589 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4590
ea3a6f44
NM
459122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4592 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4593 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4594
459523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4596 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4597 $sender_host_address.
4598
459924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4600
ea3a6f44
NM
460125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4602 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4603 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4604
460526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4606 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4607
ea3a6f44
NM
460827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4609 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4610
ea3a6f44
NM
461128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4612 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4613 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4614 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4615
461629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4617 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4618 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4619
ea3a6f44
NM
462030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4621 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4622 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4623 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4624
ea3a6f44
NM
462531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4626 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4627 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4628
ea3a6f44
NM
462931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4630 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4631
ea3a6f44
NM
463232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4633 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4634 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4635 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4636 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4637 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4638 is going on).
bbe902f0 4639
ea3a6f44
NM
464033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4641 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4642 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4643 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4644 CAN-2005-0021
4645
ea3a6f44
NM
464634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4647 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4648 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4649 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4650 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4651 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4652 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4653
4654 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4655 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4656 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4657 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4658 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4659 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4660 CAN-2005-0021
4661
ea3a6f44
NM
466235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4663 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4664 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4665 CAN-2005-0022
4666
ea3a6f44
NM
466736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4668 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4669 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4670 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4671 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4672
ea3a6f44
NM
467337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4674 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4675 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4676 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4677 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4678
ea3a6f44
NM
467938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4680 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4681 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4682 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4683 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4684
4685
495ae4b0
PH
4686Exim version 4.43
4687-----------------
4688
4689 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4690 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4691 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4692 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4693 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4694 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4695 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4696
4697 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4698 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4699 the delivery.
4700
4701 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4702
4703 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4704
4705 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4706 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4707 to local_scan().
4708
4709 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4710 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4711 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4712 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4713 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4714
4715 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4716 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4717
4718 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4719
4720 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4721
472210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4723 header_sender only.
4724
472511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4726 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4727
472812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4729 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4730 affecting debugging statements).
4731
473213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4733
473414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4735 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4736 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4737 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4738 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4739 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4740 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4741 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4742 after the received time, and all would be well.
4743
474415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4745 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4746 condition in an expansion string.
4747
474816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4749
475017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4751 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4752 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4753 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4754 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4755 job under whatever limits there are.
4756
475718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4758
475919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4760 space).
4761
476220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4763 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4764 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4765 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4766 return path is set.
4767
476821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4769 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4770 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4771 binary data in such strings.
4772
477322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4774
477523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4776 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4777 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4778 failure, which is pointless.
4779
478024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4781
478225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4783
478426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4785 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4786 Sender: header lines.
4787
478827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4789 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4790 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4791
479228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4793 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4794 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4795 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4796 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4797 happens.
4798
479929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4800 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4801 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4802 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4803 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4804
480530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4806 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4807 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4808 1024.
4809
481031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4811 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4812
481332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4814 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4815
481633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4817
481832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4819
482033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4821
482234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4823 syntax error.
4824
482535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4826
482736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4828
482937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4830 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4831 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4832 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4833
483438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4835 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4836
4837
4838Exim version 4.42
4839-----------------
4840
4841 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4842 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4843 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4844 it was not quoted.
4845 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4846 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4847 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4848 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4849 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4850 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4851
4852 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4853 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4854 verification failure".
4855
4856 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4857 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4858 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4859 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4860
4861 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4862 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4863 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4864 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4865 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4866 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4867 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4868 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4869 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4870 treated as a timeout.
4871
4872 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4873 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4874 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4875 not set for Exim filters).
4876
4877 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4878 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4879 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4880
4881 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4882
4883 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4884 try to make them clearer.
4885
4886 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4887 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4888
4889 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4890
4891 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4892
489310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4894 only the Cygwin environment.
4895
489611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4897 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4898 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4899 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4900 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4901
490212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4903 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4904 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4905 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4906 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4907 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4908 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4909
491013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4911 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4912
491314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4914
4915 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4916 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4917 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4918
4919 To: susanne@some.where
4920
4921 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4922 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4923 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4924 of addresses in From: header lines).
4925
4926 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4927 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4928 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4929
4930 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4931 treated as non-personal.
4932
4933 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4934 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4935
493615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4937
493816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4939
494017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4941 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4942 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4943
494418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4945 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4946
494719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4948 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4949 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4950 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4951 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4952 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4953
495420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4955 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4956 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4957 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4958 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4959 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4960 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4961 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4962
4963 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4964
496521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4966 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4967
496822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4969 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4970 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4971
497223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4973 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4974
497524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4976 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4977 rather than long int.
4978
497925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4980
498126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4982
4983
4984Exim version 4.41
4985-----------------
4986
4987 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4988 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4989 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4990 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4991 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4992 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4993
4994
4995Exim version 4.40
4996-----------------
4997
4998 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4999 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5000
5001 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5002 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5003 socklen_t is defined.
5004
5005 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5006 always exist.
5007
5008 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5009 configured.
5010
5011 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5012 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5013 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5014 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5015 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5016
5017 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5018 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5019 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5020 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5021
5022 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5023 of flapping under certain conditions.
5024
5025 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5026 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5027 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5028
5029 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5030
503110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5032
503311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5034 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5035 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5036 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5037
503812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5039 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5040 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5041 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5042 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5043 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5044 preserved with the message after it was received.
5045
504613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5047 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5048 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5049 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5050 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5051 test suite worked just fine.
5052
505314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5054 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5055 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5056
505715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5058 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5059 string.
5060
506116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5062 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5063 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5064 does not fully solve it.
5065
506617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5067 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5068 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5069 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5070 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5071
507218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5073 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5074 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5075
507619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5077 string, for example:
5078
5079 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5080
5081 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5082 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5083 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5084 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5085 the routers could not see them.
5086
508720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5088 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5089
509021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5091 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5092 output).
5093
509422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5095 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5096 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5097 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5098 that needed quoting.
5099
510023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5101 was not being matched caselessly.
5102
510324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5104 backslashes.
5105
510625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5107 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5108 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5109 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5110 when use_sender is false.
5111
511226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5113
511427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5115
511628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5117
511829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5119 the configuration file.
5120
512130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5122 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5123
512431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5125
512632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5127 bytes in the message body.
5128
512933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5130 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5131 delivery.
5132
513334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5134
513535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5136
513736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5138 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5139 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5140 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5141 another IP address.
5142
5143
5144Exim version 4.34
5145-----------------
5146
5147 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5148 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5149
5150 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5151 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5152 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5153 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5154 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5155
5156 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5157 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5158
5159 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5160 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5161 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5162
5163 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5164 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5165 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5166
5167 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5168 for routers.
5169
5170 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5171 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5172 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5173 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5174 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5175 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5176 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5177
5178
5179Exim version 4.33
5180-----------------
5181
5182 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5183 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5184 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5185 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5186 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5187 default (and expected) setting.
5188
5189 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5190 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5191 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5192 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5193
5194 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5195 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5196
5197 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5198 in domain lists.
5199
5200 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5201 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5202 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5203 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5204 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5205 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5206
5207 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5208 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5209 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5210
5211 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5212 part (NOT match_host).
5213
5214 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5215
5216 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5217 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5218 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5219 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5220 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5221 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5222 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5223 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5224 the same named file.
5225
522610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5227 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5228 when Exim is built.
5229
523011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5231 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5232 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5233 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5234 a host name.
5235
523612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5237 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5238 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5239
524013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5241
524214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5243
524415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5245
524616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5247 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5248
524917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5250 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5251 before starting the TLS session.
5252
525318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5254
525519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5256 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5257
525820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5259 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5260 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5261 colon in the middle).
5262
5263
5264Exim version 4.32
5265-----------------
5266
5267 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5268 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5269 multiple configurations are in use.
5270
5271 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5272 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5273 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5274 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5275 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5276 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5277
5278 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5279 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5280
5281 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5282 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5283 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5284
5285 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5286 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5287 occurs.
5288
5289 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5290 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5291
5292 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5293
5294 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5295 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5296
5297 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5298
5299 -prval:sval
5300
5301 is equivalent to
5302
5303 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5304
5305 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5306 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5307 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5308 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5309 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5310
531110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5312 Exim's behaviour:
5313
5314 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5315 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5316 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5317 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5318 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5319 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5320
5321 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5322 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5323 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5324 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5325 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5326 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5327 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5328 string.
5329
5330 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5331 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5332 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5333 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5334 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5335
533611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5337
533812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5339 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5340 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5341
534213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5343
534414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5345 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5346 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5347 information.
5348
534915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5350 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5351
535216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5353 Three changes have been made:
5354
5355 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5356 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5357 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5358 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5359 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5360
5361 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5362 been restored.
5363
5364 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5365 the modified behaviour.
5366
5367
5368Exim version 4.31
5369-----------------
5370
5371 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5372 Larry Rosenman.
5373
5374 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5375 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5376
5377 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5378 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5379 try to track down a specific problem.
5380
5381 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5382 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5383 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5384
5385 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5386 warning.
5387
5388 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5389 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5390 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5391 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5392 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5393 some earlier ones do not.
5394
5395 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5396
5397 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5398 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5399 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5400 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5401 address literals are enabled, of course).
5402
5403 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5404
540510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5406 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5407 by a command such as
5408
5409 exim -f "" ...
5410
5411 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5412
541311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5414
541512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5416 remained set. It is now erased.
5417
541813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5419 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5420
542114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5422 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5423 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5424 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5425 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5426 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5427 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5428 appropriate error code.
5429
543015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5431 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5432 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5433 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5434 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5435 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5436
543716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5438 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5439 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5440
544117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5442 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5443 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5444 terminate the header.
5445
544618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5447 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5448 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5449
545019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5451 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5452 (4.30/29). In particular:
5453
5454 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5455 imposed.
5456
5457 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5458 to write a maildirsize file.
5459
5460 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5461 the transport, the new value overrides.
5462
5463 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5464 count.
5465
546620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5467 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5468 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5469 space or a tab.
5470
547121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5472 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5473 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5474 the fallback hosts.
5475
547622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5477 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5478 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5479
548023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5481 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5482 using a union.
5483
548424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5485 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5486 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5487
548825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5489
549026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5491
549227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5493
549428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5495 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5496 become corrupted.
5497
549829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5499 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5500 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5501 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5502 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5503 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5504 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5505 too great.
5506
550730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5508 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5509 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5510 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5511 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5512 incorrectly.
5513
551431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5515 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5516 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5517 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5518 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5519 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5520 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5521 cached value only when the same options are set.
5522
552332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5524
552533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5526 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5527 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5528 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5529 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5530
553134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5532 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5533 it is clearly obsolete.
5534
553535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5536 transport.
5537
553836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5539 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5540 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5541 times.
5542
554337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5544 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5545 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5546 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5547 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5548
554938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5550 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5551 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5552 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5553
555439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5555
5556 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5557
5558 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5559 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5560 2^31.
5561
556240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5563 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5564 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5565 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5566 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5567 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5568 $localpart_data.
5569
557041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5571 with the -f command-line option.
5572
557342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5574 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5575 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5576 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5577 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5578 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5579
558043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5581 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5582 line.
5583
558444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5585 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5586 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5587 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5588 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5589 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5590 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5591 buffer is too small.
5592
559345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5594 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5595
559646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5597 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5598 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5599 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5600 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5601 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5602 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5603 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5604 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5605
560647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5607 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5608 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5609
561048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5611 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5612 ACL").
5613
561449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5615 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5616 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5617 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5618 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5619
562050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5621 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5622 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5623 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5624 is set.
5625
562651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5627
562852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5629
563053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5631 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5632
563354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5634 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5635 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5636
563755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5638 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5639 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5640 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5641 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5642
564356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5644 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5645 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5646 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5647 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5648 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5649 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5650
565157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5652 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5653 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5654 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5655 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5656 the test of how many are available.
5657
565858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5659 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5660 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5661 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5662 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5663 new message is started.
5664
566559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5666 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5667
566860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5669 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5670
567161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5672 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5673 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5674 is no long logged.
5675
567662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5677 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5678 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5679 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5680 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5681 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5682 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5683
568463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5685 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5686 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5687 interpreted as octal.
5688
568964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5690 setting.
5691
569265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5693 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5694 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5695 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5696 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5697 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5698
569966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5700 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5701 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5702 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5703
5704 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5705 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5706 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5707 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5708
5709 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5710 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5711 is a bug fix.
5712
5713 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5714 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5715
571667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5717
571868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5719 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5720 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5721 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5722
572369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5724 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5725 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5726 supplied", which is not helpful.
5727
572870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5729 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5730 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5731
573271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5733 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5734 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5735 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5736 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5737 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5738 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5739 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5740
574172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5742 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5743 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5744 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5745 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5746
574773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5748 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5749 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5750 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5751 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5752 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5753
575474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5755 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5756 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5757
575875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5759
576076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5761 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5762 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5763 variables.
5764
576577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5766
576778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5768 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5769 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5770 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5771 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5772 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5773 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5774 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5775
577679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5777 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5778 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5779 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5780 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5781
578280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5783 Haardt.
5784
578581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5786 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5787 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5788 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5789 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5790 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5791 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5792 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5793 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5794
5795
5796Exim version 4.30
5797-----------------
5798
5799 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5800 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5801 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5802
5803 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5804 fixed.
5805
5806 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5807 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5808 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5809
5810 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5811 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5812 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5813 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5814 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5815 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5816
5817 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5818 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5819 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5820 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5821 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5822 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5823 the Exim test suite.
5824
5825 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5826 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5827 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5828 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5829
5830 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5831 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5832 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5833 specify it in this variable.
5834
5835 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5836 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5837 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5838 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5839
5840 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5841 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5842 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5843 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5844
5845 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5846 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5847 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5848 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5849 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5850
5851 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5852
585310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5854 they are logged.
5855
585611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5857 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5858 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5859 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5860 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5861
586212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5863 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5864
586513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5866 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5867 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5868 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5869 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5870
587114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5872 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5873
587415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5875 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5876 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5877
587816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5879 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5880
588117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5882 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5883
588418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5885 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5886 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5887
588819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5889 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5890
589120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5892 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5893 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5894 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5895
589621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5897
589822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5899 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5900 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5901 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5902
590323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5904
590524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5906 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5907
590825. Added .include_if_exists.
5909
591026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5911 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5912 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5913 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5914 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5915 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5916
591727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5918
591928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5920 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5921 this.
5922
592329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5924
592530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5926 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5927
5928 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5929 550 Sender verify failed
5930
5931 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5932 the final line of the response.
5933
593431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5935 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5936 all other user lookups.
5937
593832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5939 delivery time.
5940
594133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5942 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5943 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5944 result into an int without checking.
5945
594634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5947 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 5948 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
5949
595035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5951 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5952 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5953 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5954
595536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5956 correctly.
5957
595837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5959 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5960
596138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5962 to the empty sender.
5963
596439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5965 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5966 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5967 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5968 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5969 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5970 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5971 panic log.
5972
597340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5974 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5975 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5976 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5977 used.
5978
597941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5980 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5981
598242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5983 timestamps.
5984
598543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5986 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5987
598844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5989
599045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5991 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5992 logs.
5993
599446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5995 as soon as it is encountered.
5996
599747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5998
599948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6000 rewritten to "<>".
6001
600249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6003 recognizes a tab character.
6004
600550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6006 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6007 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6008 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6009
601051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6011
601252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6013 crash.
6014
601553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6016
601754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6018
601955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6020 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6021 2822.
6022
602356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6024 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6025 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6026 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6027 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6028
602957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6030 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6031
603258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6033 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6034 list (.included file names were always shown).
6035
603659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6037 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6038 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6039 root at that time.
6040
604160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6042 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6043
604461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6045
604662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6047
604863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6049
605064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6051 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6052 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6053 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6054 failures to open the logs.
6055
605665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6057 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6058 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6059 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6060 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6061 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6062 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6063
6064
6065Exim version 4.24
6066-----------------
6067
6068 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6069 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6070 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6071 change 4.23/1.
6072
6073 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6074 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6075 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6076
6077 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6078 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6079 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6080
6081 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6082 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6083 causing some misleading effects.
6084
6085 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6086 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6087 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6088
6089 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6090 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6091 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6092 queue-runner function directly.
6093
6094
6095Exim version 4.23
6096-----------------
6097
6098 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6099 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6100
6101 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6102 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6103 was always written to the default place.
6104
6105 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6106 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6107 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6108
6109 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6110
6111 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6112
6113 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6114 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6115 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6116
6117 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6118 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6119 must start.
6120
6121 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6122 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6123 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6124
6125 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6126 command line option is disabled.
6127
6128 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6129 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6130
6131 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6132
6133 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6134
6135 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6136 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6137
613810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6139
614011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6141 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6142 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6143 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6144 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6145 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6146
614712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6148 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6149 timeout.
6150
615113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6152 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6153
615414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6155 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6156
615715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6158 received was valid base64.
6159
616016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6161 name of the variable that was being set.
6162
616317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6164
616518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6166 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6167 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6168 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6169 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6170 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6171
617219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6173
617420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6175 nor realm was specified.
6176
617721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6178 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6179 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6180 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6181
618222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6183 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6184 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6185
618623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6187 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6188 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6189
619024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6191 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6192 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6193 some systems use these upper case variants.
6194
619525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6196 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6197 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6198 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6199
620026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6201
620227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6203 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6204
620528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6206 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6207 expansion variable.
6208
620929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6210
621130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6212 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6213 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6214 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6215
621631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6217 using it.
6218
621932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6220 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6221 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6222
622333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6224 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6225
622634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6227 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6228 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6229 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6230
623135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6232 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6233 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6234
623536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6236
623737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6238 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6239 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6240 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6241 aborted.
6242
624338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6244 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6245 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6246
624739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6248
624940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6250 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6251
625241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6253 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6254
625542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6256 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6257 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6258 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6259 when emails are that large.
6260
6261
6262
6263Exim version 4.22
6264-----------------
6265
6266 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6267 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6268
6269 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6270 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6271 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6272
6273 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6274 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6275 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6276
6277 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6278 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6279 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6280 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6281 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6282
6283 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6284 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6285 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6286 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6287 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6288 ever.
6289
6290 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6291 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6292 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6293 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6294 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6295 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6296 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6297 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6298 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6299 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6300 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6301 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6302 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6303 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6304
6305 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6306 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6307 parameterised it.
6308
6309 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6310 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6311 error should be diagnosed.
6312
6313 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6314 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6315 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6316 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6317 appeared instead of "NULL".
6318
631910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6320 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6321 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6322 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6323 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6324 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6325 proceeds).
6326
6327 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6328 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6329 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6330
6331
6332Exim version 4.21
6333-----------------
6334
6335 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6336 or receiver verification errors.
6337
6338 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6339 name.
6340
6341 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6342 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6343 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6344 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6345
6346 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6347 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6348 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6349 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6350 shouldn't happen again.
6351
6352 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6353 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6354 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6355
6356 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6357 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6358
6359 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6360
6361 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6362 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6363
6364 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6365 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6366 RFC.
6367
636810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6369 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6370 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6371
637211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6373 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6374 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6375 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6376
637712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6378 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6379 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6380 to define what should happen).
6381
638213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6383 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6384 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6385
638614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6387
638815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6389
639016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6391 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6392
4c04137d 639317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6394 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6395 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6396 structure in all cases.
6397
6398 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6399 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6400 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6401 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6402
640318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6404 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6405 domain name.
6406
640719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6408 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6409
641020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6411 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6412
641321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6414 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6415 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6416
641722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6418 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6419 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6420
642123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6422 the book and for uniformity.
6423
642424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6425
642625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6427 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6428 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6429 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6430 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6431 non-existent command as the problem.
6432
643326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6434 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6435 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6436
643727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6438
643928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6440 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6441 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6442
644329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6444 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6445 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6446 timestamps using strftime().
6447
644830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6449 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6450
645132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6452 transport-time rewrites.
6453
645433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6455 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6456 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6457 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6458
645934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6460 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6461
646235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6463 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6464 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6465 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6466 comma and a space.
6467
646836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6469 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6470 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6471 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6472 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6473 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6474 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6475
647637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6477 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6478 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6479 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6480 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6481
648238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6483 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6484 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6485 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6486 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6487 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6488 remaining text gets split now.
6489
649039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6491 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6492 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6493 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6494
649540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6496 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6497 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6498 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6499 $return_path.
6500
650141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6502 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6503 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6504 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6505 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6506 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6507 passed through if needed.
6508
650942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6510 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6511 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6512 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6513 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6514 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6515
651643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6517 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6518 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6519 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6520 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6521
652244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6523 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6524 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6525 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6526 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6527
652845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6529 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6530 noticed.
6531
653246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6533 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6534 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6535 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6536 mayhem of various kinds.
6537
653847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6539 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6540 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6541 the right test for positive values.
6542
654348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6544 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6545 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6546 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6547 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6548 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6549 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6550 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6551 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6552 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6553 envelope.
6554
655549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6556 module.
6557
655850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6559 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6560 forbidding it.
6561
656251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6563 the existing equality matching.
6564
656552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6566 dealing with inode numbers.
6567
656853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6569 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6570 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6571
657254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6573 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6574 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6575 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6576 local_scan().
6577
657855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6579 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6580 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6581 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6582 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6583 relay addresses has also been removed.
6584
658556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6586
658757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6588 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6589 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6590
659158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6592 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6593 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6594 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6595 processing applies to CR:
6596
6597 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6598 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6599
6600 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6601 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6602 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6603 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6604
660559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6606 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6607 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6608
660960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6610 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6611 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6612 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6613 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6614 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6615 arisen.
6616
661761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6618 program routers.
6619
662062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6621 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6622 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6623 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6624 adds:
6625
6626 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6627
6628 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6629
6630 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6631
663263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6633 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6634 not considered personal.
6635
663664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6637
663865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6639
664066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6641
664267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6643 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6644 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6645 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6646 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6647 header lines, and spool format errors.
6648
664968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6650 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6651 for more flexibility.
6652
665369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6654 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6655 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6656
665770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6658 Sabourenkov.
6659
666071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6661 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6662 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6663 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6664 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6665 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6666 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6667 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6668 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6669
667072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6671 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6672 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6673 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6674 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6675 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6676 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6677
667873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6679 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6680 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6681
668274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6683 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6684 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6685 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6686 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6687 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6688 instead of killing the process with assert().
6689
669075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6691 than Unicode encoding.
6692
669376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6694 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6695 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6696 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6697
669877. Added process_log_path.
6699
670078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6701 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6702
670379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6704 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6705
670680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6707 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6708 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6709
671081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6711 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6712 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6713 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6714 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6715 were applied:
6716
6717 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6718 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6719 as invalid.
6720
672182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6722 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6723 they will be used during message reception.
6724
6725
6726Exim version 4.20
6727-----------------
6728
6729The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6730
6731****