ARC: add $arc_state, $arc_state_reason and add reason to authres string
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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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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
17
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18JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
19 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
20 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
21 extant use locations.
22
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23JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
24 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
25
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26JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
27 Previously only the last row was returned.
28
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29JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
30 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
31 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
32 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
33 input.
34
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35JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
36 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
37 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
38 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
39 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
40 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
41 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
42 Main pool for expansions.
43 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
44 active in the testsuite.
45 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
46
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47JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
48 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
49 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
50 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
51 round-robin DNS.
52
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53JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
54 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
55 failure response.
56
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57JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
58 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
59 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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60
61JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
62 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
63 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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65JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
66 rows affected is given instead).
67
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68JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
69 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
70
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71JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
72 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
73 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
74 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
75 for all multi-message initiating connections.
76
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77JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
78 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
79 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
80
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81JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
82 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
83 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
84 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
85 separate.
86
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87JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
88 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
89 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
90 fake-reject.
91
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92HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
93
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94JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
95 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
96
aab9a843 97PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 98 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 99 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 100
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101JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
102 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
103 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
104 and send a quit.
105
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106JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
107 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
108
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109JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
110 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
111 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
112
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113JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
114 for the build is renamed.
115
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116JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
117 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
118 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
119
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120JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
121 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
122 result replacing the original.
123
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124JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
125 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
126 and the resources needed to be freed.
127
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128JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
129
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130JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
131 was not propagated.
132
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133JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
134 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
135 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
136 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
137
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138JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
139 length value. Previously this would segfault.
140
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141HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
142 newer versions of the scanner.
143
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144JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
145 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
146 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
147 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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148 Do the same for the queue-runner loop, for variables set from spool
149 message files.
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154
155JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
156 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
157 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
158 pairs of long lines into single ones.
159
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160PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
161 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
162
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163JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
164 This permits better logging.
165
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166JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
167 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
168 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
169 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
170 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 171 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 172
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173JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
174 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
175 "exiwhat" output.
176
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177PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
178 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
179 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
180
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181JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
182 than 255 are no longer allowed.
183
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184JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
185 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
186 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
187 client, there is no benefit for these.
188 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
189 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
190 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
191 is used (3.2.4 +).
192
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193PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
194 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
195
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196JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
197 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
198 erroneously found still-pending ones.
199
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200JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
201 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
202
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203JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
204 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
205 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
206 signature and again for transmission.
207
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208JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
209 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 210 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 211
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212JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
213 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
214 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
215 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
216 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
217 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
218 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
219
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220JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
221 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
222 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 223 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 224
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225PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
226 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
227 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
228 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
229 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
230 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
231 processing options.
232
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233JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
234 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
235 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
236 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
237 connections.
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239PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
240 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
241 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
242 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
243 versions.
244
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245JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
246 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
247 inaccessible.
248
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249JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
250 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
251 banner-time rejection.
252
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253JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
254 callout/hold.
255
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256PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
257 is the name of a transport.
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258 Fixes bug 2140.
259
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260HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
261
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262JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
263 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
264
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265JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
266 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
267 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
268 during compilation.
269
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270JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
271 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
272 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 273 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 274
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275JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
276 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
277 initial verify call returned a defer.
278
ad1a76fe 279JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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280 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
281
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282JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
283 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
284
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285JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
286 if present. Previously it was ignored.
287
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288JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
289 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
290
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291JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
292 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
293 extensible.
294
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295PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
296 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
297
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298PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
299 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
300 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
301
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302JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
303 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
304 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
305 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
306
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307HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
308 and confused the parent.
309
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310JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
311 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
312
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313JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
314 for log purposes.
315
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316JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
317 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
318 out-of-order delivery.
319
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320JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
321 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
322 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
323 error for the HELO.
324
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325JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
326 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
327 desynchronisation.
328
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329JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
330 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
331 one run was done. Bug 2189.
332
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333JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
334 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
335 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
336 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
337 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
338 message is still "Temporary local problem".
339
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340JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
341 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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342 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
343
344HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
345 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
346 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 347
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348JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
349 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
350 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
351 though a different problem.
352
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9427e879 357JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 358 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 359
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360JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
361
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362PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
363 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
364
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365JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
366 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
367
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368JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
369 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
370 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
371 before acknowledging the chunk.
372
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373PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
374 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
375 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
376
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377JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
378 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
379 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
380 should.
381
382JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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383 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
384 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 385
bd8fbe36 386JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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387 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
388
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389JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
390 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
391 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
392 body hash calculated value.
393
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394JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
395 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
396 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
397
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398JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
399
400JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
401 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
402
403JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
404 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
405 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
406
407JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
408 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
409 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
410 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
411 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
412 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
413
414JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
415 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
416 past that check, despite the cost.
417
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418JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
419 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
420 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
421
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422PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
423 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
424 TLS library to consume.
425
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426PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
427
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428PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
429
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430JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
431 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
432 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
433 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
434 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
435 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
436 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
437
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438PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
439
440PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
441
442PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
443 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
444 should be warning-free.
445
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446JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
447
448HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
449 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
450
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451HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
452 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
453 general solution here.
454
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455PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
456 already-broken messages in the queue.
457
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458JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
459
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460JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
461
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466JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
467 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 468
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469JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
470 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
471 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
472
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473JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
474 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
475 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
476 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
477 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
478 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
479 if one fails this test.
480 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
481 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
482
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483JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
484 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
485
23bb6982 486JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 487 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 488
0bd1b1ed 489JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 490 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 491
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492JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
493 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
494
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495JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
496 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
497
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498JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
499
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500JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
501 certificate).
502
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503JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
504 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
505 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
506 connection after a verify cache hit.
507 Do not update it with the verify result either.
508
509JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
510 when routing results in more than one destination address.
511
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512JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
513 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
514 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
515 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
516 when the cutthrough connection is made).
517
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518JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
519 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
520
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521JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
522 Previously they were not counted.
523
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524JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
525 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
526 that needed the lookup.
527
4c04137d 528JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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529 distinguished as "(=".
530
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531JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
532 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
533
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534JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
535
536JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
537 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 538
4c04137d 539JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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540 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
541
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542JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
543 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
544 compatible.
545
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546JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
547 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
548 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
549 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
550
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551JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
552
f59aaaaa 553JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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554 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
555 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 556
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557JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
558 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
559 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
560 be lost.
561
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562JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
563 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
564 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
565 itself :(
566
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567JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
568 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
569 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
570
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571JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
572 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
573 options.
574
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575JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
576
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577PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
578 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
579
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580PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
581 are not in the system include path.
582
ad7fc6eb 583JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 584 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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585 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
586 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 587
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588JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
589 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
590 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
591
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592JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
593
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594HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
595 an incoming connection.
596
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597HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
598 to rspamd.
599
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600HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
601 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 602
87cb4a16 603JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 604 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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605
606
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610JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
611 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
612 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
613 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 614
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615TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
616 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
617
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618TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
619 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
620 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
621 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
622 outgoing I= field.
623
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624JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
625 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
626 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
627 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
628 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
629 check on the next write.
630
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631HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
632 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
633 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
634 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
635 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
636
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637JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
638 mime_regex ACL conditions.
639
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640JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
641 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
642 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
643
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644JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
645 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
646 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
647 an authenticate fail is not an error.
648
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649HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
650 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
651
4c04137d 652JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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653 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
654
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655JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
656 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
657 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
658 distinct.
659
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660JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
661
662JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
663
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664JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
665
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666JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
667 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
668
98b98887 669JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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670 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
671
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672JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
673
858e91c2
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674JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
675 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
676
677JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
678
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679JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
680 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
681
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682JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
683
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684JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
685 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 686 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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687 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
688 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
689 they will retry in-clear.
690 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
691 at installation time.
692
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693HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
694 with the $config_file variable.
695
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696JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
697 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
698 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
699 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 700 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 701
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702GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
703 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
704 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
705 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
706 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
707
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708JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
709
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710JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
711 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
712 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
713 list order is no longer honoured.
714
4c04137d 715JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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716 for DKIM processing.
717
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718JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
719 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 720
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721JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
722 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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723 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
724 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 725
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726JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
727 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
728
2d8d625b
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729JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
730 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
731
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732JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
733 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
734
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735JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
736
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737JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
738 cached by the daemon.
739
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740JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
741 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
742
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743JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
744 keys are given for lookup.
745
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746JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
747 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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748 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
749 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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751JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
752 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
753 server-side so match that on older versions.
754
07c73177 755JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 756 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 757 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 758
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759JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
760 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
761
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762JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
763 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
764 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 765 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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766 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
767 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
768 initial truncated version.
769
ab9152ff 770JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 771
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772JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
773
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774JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
775 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
776
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777JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
778
bc3c7bb7 779HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 780
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781JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
782 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
783 induced overflows.
784
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785JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
786 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
787 stage.
788
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789JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
790 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
791
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792JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
793 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
794 former class.
795
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796JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
797 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
798 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
799
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800JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
801 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
802 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
803 extraction. Accept either.
804
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809JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
810 expanded.
811
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812JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
813
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814JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
815 it.
816
01a4a5c5 817JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 818 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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819 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
820 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
821
cb1d7830 822JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 823 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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824 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
825
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827 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
828 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
829 TLS connections
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831JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
832 sites use this now.
833
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834JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
835 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
836 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
837 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
838 have a dsn_lasthop option.
839
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840JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
841 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 842 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 843
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844JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
845
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846JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
847 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
848
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849JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
850 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
851
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852JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
853 /defer_ok option.
854
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855JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
856 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
857
fd4d8871 858JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 859 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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860 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
861
862JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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863 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
864 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 865
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866JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
867 timeout value per server.
868
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869JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
870 now have the list separator specified.
871
8a512ed5 872JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 873 option values.
8a512ed5 874
82c0c8ea 875JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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876 under OpenSSL.
877
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878JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
879
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880JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
881 rather than the verbs used.
882
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883JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
884 from 255 to 1024 chars.
885
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886JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
887
cfab9d68 888HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 889 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 890
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891JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
892 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
893
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894HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
895 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
896
4c04137d 897JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 898
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899JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
900
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901JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
902 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 903 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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904 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
905
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906JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
907
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908JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
909 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
910
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911JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
912 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
913
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914JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
915
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916JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
917
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918JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
919
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920JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
921 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
922
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923JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
924 added for tls authenticator.
925
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926HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
927
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932TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
933 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
934 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
935 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
936 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
937 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
938 the script parsing/test process like normal.
939
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940TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
941 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
942 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
943 function when detected.
944
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945JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
946 cause callback expansion.
947
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948TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
949 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
950 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
951 instead of bool when processing it.
952
0f06b4f2 953JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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954 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
955
be36e572
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956JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
957
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958JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
959
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960TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
961
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962TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
963 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 964
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965JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
966 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
967 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
968 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 969 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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970 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
971
8bc732e8
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972JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
973 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
974 exceeded it.
975
a7fec7a7
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976JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
977 version 3.3.6 or later.
978
4c04137d 979JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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980 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
981 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 982 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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983 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
984 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
985 option is defined.
774ef2d7 986
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987TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
988 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
989
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990JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
991 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
992 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
993 matches.
994
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995JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
996 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
997 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
998
ad4c5ff9
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999JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1000 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1001
1002JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1003 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1004 syntax errors.
1005
3394b36a 1006JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1007
1008JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1009 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1010
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1011TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1012 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1013 tarball.
1014
ad4c5ff9
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1015JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1016
4c04137d 1017JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1018 Bug 1561.
1019
1020JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1021 output list separator was used.
1022
8bc732e8 1023
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1024Exim version 4.84
1025-----------------
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1026TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1027 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1028 return.
1f0ebb98 1029
a612424f 1030JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1031 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1032
1033JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1034
1035TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1036 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1037
1f0ebb98 1038
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1039Exim version 4.83
1040-----------------
1041
1042TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1043
1044 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1045 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1046 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1047 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1048 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1049 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1050
7245734e
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1051TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1052 utilities have not been installed.
1053
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1054JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1055 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1056
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1057TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1058 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1059
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1060TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1061 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1062 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1063 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1064
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1065JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1066
5a1b8443
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1067TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1068 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1069
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1070PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1071 not dns_use_dnssec.
1072
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1073JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1074
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MFM
1075TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1076 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1077 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1078
8ddef691 1079TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1080 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1081 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1082 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1083 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1084 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1085
b9c2e32f
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1086JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1087
e45a1c37
JH
1088JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1089 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1090
67d81c10
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1091JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1092 failed delivery.
1093
b1f8e4f8
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1094JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1095
511a6c14 1096JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1097
1098JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1099 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1100
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1101JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1102 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1103
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1104TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1105
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1106JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1107
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1108JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1109 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1110
1111 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1112 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1113 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1114
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1115TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1116 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1117 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1118 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1119
35aba663
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1120JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1121
8c51eead 1122JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1123 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1124 lookup).
8c51eead 1125
deae092e
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1126TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1127 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1128 Schlichting.
35aba663 1129
fd3b6a4a 1130JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1131 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1132
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1133TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1134 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1135
2b4a568d
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1136JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1137
d2af03f4
HS
1138TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1139 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1140 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1141
9d1c15ef
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1142JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1143 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1144
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1145JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1146 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1147 hosts_request_ocsp.
1148
ed3bba5f 1149JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1150 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1151 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1152
8ccd00b1
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1153JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1154
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1155TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1156 Christian Aistleitner.
1157
f2de3a33
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1158JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1159
6eb02f88
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1160TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1161 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1162
00bff6f6
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1163JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1164 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1165
071c51f7
JH
1166JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1167 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1168
a6d4c44e
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1169TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1170 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1171
3ae173e7
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1172TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1173 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1174
c13d09b8
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1175TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1176 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1177 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1178
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1179JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1180
66be95e0
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1181PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1182 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1183 Jasper Wallace.
1184
1bd0d12b
JH
1185JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1186
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1187TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1188 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1189 CVE-2014-2972
1190
fd3b6a4a 1191
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1194
1195PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1196
12f69989
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1197PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1198 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1199
54c90be1
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1200PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1201 by GnuTLS.
1202
1f4a55da
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1203PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1204 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1205 routines.
1206
13363eba 1207PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1208
66645890 1209PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1210 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1211 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1212 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1213 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1214
a3fb9793 1215PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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PP
1216 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1217 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1218 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1219 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1220 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1221
d27f98fe 1222TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1223
6822b909
TL
1224TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1225
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TL
1226TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1227 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1228
ae0e32ee 1229TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1230 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1231 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1232
1233TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1234
e2658fff
TL
1235TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1236
83712b39
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1237TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1238 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1239
976b7e9f
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1240JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1241
be4a1376
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1242JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1243
ec4b68e5
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1244PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1245
d7148a07
NM
1246NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1247 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1248
585121e2 1249JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1250
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1251PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1252 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1253 function.
a5f239e4 1254
13d08c90
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1255PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1256 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1257
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1258JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1259 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1260 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1261
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1262JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1263
3a796370
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1264JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1265
ea722490 1266JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1267 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1268
b1b05573
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1269JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1270 Bugzilla 884.
1271
362145b5
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1272JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1273 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1274
3c0a92dc
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1275JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1276 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1277
6d7c6175
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1278PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1279 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1280 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1281
6f123593
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1282JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1283 authenticators.
1284
c8e2fc1e
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1285JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1286 for control.
1287
005ac57f
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1288PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1289
3f1df0e3
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1290PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1291 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1292 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1293 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1294
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1295TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1296
1297 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1298 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1299 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1300 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1301 the retry rules.
1302
1303 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1304 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1305 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1306
1307 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1308 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1309 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1310 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1311
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1312 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1313 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1314 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1315 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1316 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1317 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1318 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1319
1320 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1321 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1322
326cdc37
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1323TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1324
1325 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1326
1327 Resent-From: f
1328
1329 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1330 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1331 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1332 username as equal to the username.
1333
1334 This change corrects that bug.
1335
f62514b3
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1336GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1337 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1338 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1339
eb505532
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1340TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1341
14c7b357
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1342PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1343 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1344 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1345 NULL dereference and crash.
1346
94eaf700
PP
1347JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1348
6f5a440a
PP
1349PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1350 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1351 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1352
514ee161
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1353SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1354
fd98a5c6
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1355JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1356 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1357 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1358 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1359 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1360 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1361 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1362 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1363 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1364 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1365 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1366
035c7f1e
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1367PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1368 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1369
ff284120
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1370PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1371 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1372 Bugzilla 880.
1373
26e72755
PP
1374PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1375 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1376 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1377 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1378 an empty string is now equivalent.
1379
0fbd9bff
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1380PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1381 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1382 not performing validation itself.
1383
700d22f3
PP
1384PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1385 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1386
fcc8e047
JH
1387JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1388 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1389
4c04137d 1390TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1391
8c020188
PP
1392PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1393 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1394 other false fix of the same issue.
1395 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1396 Bugzilla 1363.
1397
d13cdd30
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1398PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1399 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1400
e2fbf4a2
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1401PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1402 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1403 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1404
f4c1088b
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1405PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1406 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1407 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1408
c5c2182f
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1409TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1410
73431ca9
JH
1411JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1412
2d07a215
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1413TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1414 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1415
a30a8861
TL
1416TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1417 Alexander Miroch.
1418
33382dd9
TL
1419TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1420 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1421 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1422 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1423 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1424
046172e6
TL
1425TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1426 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1427
581d7bee 1428TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1429 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1430 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1431
1432TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1433 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1434 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1435 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1436
237b2cf2
TL
1437TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1438
9fc5a352
TL
1439TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1440 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1441 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1442
b10e4ec2
TL
1443TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1444
e2cebd74
TL
1445TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1446 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1447 interaction.
1448
1449TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1450 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1451
2519e60d
TL
1452TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1453 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1454
e78e6ecf 1455
4263f395
PP
1456Exim version 4.80.1
1457-------------------
1458
1459PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1460 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1461 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1462
ea722490 1463
b1770b6e 1464Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1465-----------------
1466
1467PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1468 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1469 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1470
23c7e742
NM
1471NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1472
b322aac8
NM
1473NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1474 improved.
1475
4a891427
NM
1476NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1477
c1e794ba 1478PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1479
97753960
PP
1480PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1481
1482PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1483 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1484
df6303fa
PP
1485PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1486 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1487
7e6a8985
PP
1488PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1489 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1490
f1e05cc7 1491PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1492 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1493 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1494
4c287009
PP
1495PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1496
b98bb9ac
PP
1497PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1498 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1499
4a6a987a
PP
1500PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1501
c45dd180 1502PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1503
7db8d074
PP
1504PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1505 non-compliant senders.
1506 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1507
eae0036b 1508NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1509 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1510 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1511
dec5017e
PP
1512PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1513 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1514 in spool file corruption.
1515
c80c5570
PP
1516PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1517 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1518 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1519 "Got SSL error 2".
1520
076b11e2
PP
1521TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1522 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1523 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1524
5407bfff
JH
1525JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1526 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1527
9e45c72b
PP
1528JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1529
e74376d8
PP
1530PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1531 diagnostics.
1532 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1533
4c04137d 1534PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1535 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1536 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1537
7be682ca
PP
1538PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1539 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1540 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1541 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1542
ef840681
PP
1543PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1544 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1545
5bfb4cdf
PP
1546PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1547 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1548 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1549 resolver implementation change.
1550
c6e95d22
PP
1551PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1552 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1553
9cbad13b
PP
1554PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1555
9ee44efb
PP
1556PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1557
6a6084f8
PP
1558PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1559 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1560
12dd53c7
PP
1561PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1562 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1563
9e45c72b 1564JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1565 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1566
17c76198
PP
1567PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1568 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1569 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1570 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1571 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1572
53947857 1573PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1574
eae0036b 1575PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1576 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1577 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1578
9e45c72b 1579JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1580
7390e768
PP
1581PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1582 read-only, out of scope).
1583 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1584
08488c86
PP
1585PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1586 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1587 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1588 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1589
6475bd82
PP
1590PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1591
81f91683
PP
1592PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1593 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1594 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1595 real issues in debug logging.
1596
5779e6aa
PP
1597PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1598 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1599
3375e053
PP
1600PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1601 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1602 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1603
1604PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1605 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1606 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1607 problems.
3375e053 1608
9d26b8c0
PP
1609PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1610 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1611
57eb9e91 1612PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1613 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1614 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1615 needs to override this, it can.
1616
16880d1a
PP
1617PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1618 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1619 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1620
a799883d
PP
1621PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1622 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1623 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1624 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1625
3ecab157 1626PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1627
0599f9cf 1628
867fcbf5
PP
1629Exim version 4.77
1630-----------------
1631
1632PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1633 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1634
f1a29782
TF
1635TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1636
ab42bd23
TK
1637TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1638 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1639
0ca0cf52
TF
1640TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1641 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1642
921b12ca
TF
1643TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1644 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1645 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1646
1647 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1648 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1649 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1650 not safe for signals.
1651
1652 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1653 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1654 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1655 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1656 exiwhat.
1657
c99ce5c9
TF
1658TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1659
1660 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1661 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1662 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1663 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1664 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1665
1666 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1667 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1668 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1669 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1670 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1671 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1672
1673 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1674 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1675 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1676 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1677
1678 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1679 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1680 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1681 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1682
1683 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1684 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1685 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1686 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1687 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1688 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1689 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1690 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1691 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1692
1693 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1694 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1695 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1696 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1697
1698 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1699 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1700 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1701 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1702 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1703 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1704 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1705 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1706 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1707 details in the main documentation.
1708
3634fc25
TF
1709TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1710
792e8a19
TF
1711TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1712
5901f0ab
TF
1713TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1714 repository when doing development or release builds.
1715
7f2a2a43
PP
1716PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1717 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1718
061b7ebd
PP
1719PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1720 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1721 Bugzilla 97.
1722
e12f8c32
PP
1723PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1724
9e949f00 1725PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1726 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1727
1728PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1729 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1730
555ae6af 1731PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1732 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1733
1734PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1735 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1736
6f7fe114
PP
1737PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1738 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1739
c566dd90
PP
1740PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1741 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1742 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1743 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1744
d6cc7c78 1745PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1746 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1747 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1748
0d0e4455
PP
1749PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1750
3399bb60 1751PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1752
1753PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1754 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1755
0ca0cf52 1756
10906672
PP
1757Exim version 4.76
1758-----------------
1759
1760PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1761
754a0503
PP
1762PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1763 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1764
c0c7b2da
PP
1765PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1766
e97d1f08
PP
1767PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1768
084c1d8c
PP
1769PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1770 Bugzilla 1098.
1771
4e7ee012
PP
1772PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1773 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1774
c8d52a00
PP
1775TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1776 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1777
54e7ce4a
PP
1778PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1779 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1780
5ee6f336
PP
1781PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1782 Bugzilla 1104.
1783
c8d52a00 1784TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1785 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1786
1787TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1788 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1789 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1790 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1791
1792PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1793 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1794
10906672 1795
aa097c4c
NM
1796Exim version 4.75
1797-----------------
1798
4c04137d 1799NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1800 Bugzilla 1073
1801
7f3d9eff
TF
1802TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1803 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1804 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1805
159f52d2
TF
1806TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1807 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1808
0cc9542a
PP
1809PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1810 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1811 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1812
f7274286
PP
1813PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1814 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1815
7b797365
PP
1816PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1817 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1818
caacae52
NM
1819NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1820 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1821
09dcaba9
NM
1822NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1823 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1824
bc19a55b
PP
1825PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1826 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1827
bd4c9759
NM
1828NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1829 Fixes bug 943.
1830
b72aab72
PP
1831PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1832 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1833
2fe76745
PP
1834PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1835 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1836
76aa570c
PP
1837PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1838 SQL string expansion failure details.
1839 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1840
f1e5fef5
PP
1841PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1842 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1843
4d805ee9
PP
1844PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1845 extern declarations in function scope.
1846 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1847
cd59ab18
PP
1848PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1849 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1850 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1851 a kernel bug).
1852
332f5cf3
PP
1853PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1854 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1855
29cfeb94
PP
1856PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1857 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1858
660242ad
PP
1859PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1860 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1861
bc4bc4c5
PP
1862PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1863 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1864
2e64baa9
NM
1865NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1866 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1867 Dennis Davis.
1868
4c04137d 1869PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1870
6bac1a9a
PP
1871PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1872
552193f0
NM
1873NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1874 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1875
1b587e48
TF
1876TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1877 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1878
aa097c4c 1879
8c07b69f
TF
1880Exim version 4.74
1881-----------------
1882
1883TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1884 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1885
c0ea85ab
TF
1886TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1887 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1888
0761d44e
TF
1889TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1890
0a349494
PP
1891DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1892 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1893 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1894
1895PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1896 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1897 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1898
fea24b2e
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1899PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1900 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1901 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1902 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1903
6545de78
PP
1904PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1905 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1906 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1907 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1908
1670ef10
PP
1909PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1910 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1911 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1912 arbitrary files.
1913
c0886197
PP
1914PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1915 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1916
b7487bce
PP
1917PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1918 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1919 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1920 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1921 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1922
8c07b69f 1923
97fd1e48 1924Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1925-----------------
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1926
1927PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1928 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1929 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1930
6901c596
PP
1931PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1932 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1933
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1934JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1935
77bb000f
PP
1936PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1937
a29e5231
PP
1938PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1939
ec5a0394 1940PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1941
55c75993
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1942PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1943
453a6645 1944PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1945 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1946 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1947 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1948
8544e77a
PP
1949PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1950 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1951 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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1952 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1953 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1954
83e029d5
PP
1955PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1956
ed7f7860
PP
1957PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1958
7d9f747b
PP
1959PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1960
4b2241d2
PP
1961PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1962
10385c15
PP
1963PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1964
dbc4b90d
PP
1965PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1966
532be449
PP
1967PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1968
6a8de854 1969PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1970 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1971 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1972
5dc43717
JJ
1973JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1974
1975JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1976 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1977
3346ab01
PP
1978PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1979 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1980
491fab4c
PP
1981PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1982 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1983 Notification from John Horne.
1984
13eb9497
PP
1985PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1986 compatible.
1987
1988PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1989 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1990 it normally works.
1991
7f36d675
DW
1992DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1993 access.
1994
c1d94452
DW
1995DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1996 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1997 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1998
e2f5dc15
DW
1999DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2000 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2001 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2002 configuration file.
2003
cd25e41d
DW
2004DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2005 option (effectively making it always true).
2006
261dc43e
DW
2007DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2008 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2009
fa32850b
DW
2010DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2011 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2012
79d4bc3d
PP
2013PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2014 run-time user, instead of root.
2015
43236f35 2016PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2017 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2018
fb08281f
DW
2019DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2020 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2021 arguments.
3346ab01 2022
74935b98
DW
2023DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2024 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2025 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2026
90b6341f
DW
2027DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2028
57730b52
ML
2029NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2030
66581d1e 2031
465e92cf
JJ
2032Exim version 4.72
2033-----------------
2034
453a6645
PP
2035JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2036 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2037 typos
465e92cf 2038
453a6645
PP
2039JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2040 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2041 (Finput)
edae0343 2042
9bd3e22c
NM
2043NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2044 Patch from Alain Williams
2045
bb576ff7
NM
2046NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2047
5a1a5845
NM
2048NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2049 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2050
981a9fad
NM
2051NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2052 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2053
7fc497ee
NM
2054NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2055
1a41defa
JJ
2056JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2057
a466095c 2058NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2059 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2060
94a6bd0b
NM
2061TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2062
2063TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2064
2065MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2066 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2067 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2068
c1b141a8
NM
2069NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2070 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2071
b26eacf1 2072NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2073 Patch by Simon Arlott
2074
179c5980 2075PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2076 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2077
9bd3e22c 2078
7c6d71af
NM
2079Exim version 4.71
2080-----------------
2081
7d9f747b 2082TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2083
f013fb92
NM
2084NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2085
0eb8eedd
NM
2086NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2087
663ee6d9
NM
2088NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2089
177ebd9b
NM
2090NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2091
7c6d71af 2092
210f147e
NM
2093Exim version 4.70
2094-----------------
2095
cdd3bb85 2096TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2097 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2098
2099TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2100 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2101 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2102
2103TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2104 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2105 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2106
2107TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2108 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2109
210f147e
NM
2110NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2111 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2112 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2113 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2114
deafd5b3
NM
2115NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2116 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2117 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2118
089793a4
TF
2119TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2120
5f16ca82
TF
2121TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2122
dae9d94e 2123NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2124 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2125
7d9f747b 2126NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2127
06864c44
TF
2128TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2129 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2130 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2131 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2132
65a7d8c3 2133NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2134 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2135
23510047 2136TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2137
7d9f747b 2138NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2139
7d8eec3a 2140NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2141 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2142
89dec7b6
TF
2143TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2144 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2145
a99de90c
TF
2146TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2147 that they are available at delivery time.
2148
e2803e40
TF
2149TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2150
7199e1ee
TF
2151TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2152 incoming_port log selectors.
2153
e276e04b
TF
2154TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2155 setting expands to an empty string.
2156
ce552449 2157NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2158 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2159
e765a0f1 2160NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2161 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2162
4f054c63 2163NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2164 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2165
7d9f747b
PP
2166NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2167 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2168
7d9f747b
PP
2169NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2170 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2171
b52bc06e 2172NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2173 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2174
447de4b0
NM
2175NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2176
4c69d561 2177NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2178 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2179
d5c39246 2180NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2181 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2182
0b23848a
TK
2183TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2184
8f3414a1 2185NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2186 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2187
fb6f955d
NM
2188NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2189
2190NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2191
7d9f747b
PP
2192NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2193 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2194
7d9f747b
PP
2195NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2196 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2197
7d9f747b
PP
2198NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2199 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2200
7d9f747b
PP
2201NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2202 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2203
7d9f747b
PP
2204NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2205 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2206
7d9f747b
PP
2207NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2208 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2209
7d9f747b
PP
2210NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2211 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2212
7d9f747b 2213NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2214 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2215
7d9f747b 2216NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2217
7d9f747b
PP
2218NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2219 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2220
7d9f747b 2221NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2222
7d9f747b 2223NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2224
7d9f747b 2225NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2226
7d9f747b 2227NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2228
17792b53 2229NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2230 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2231
7d9f747b
PP
2232NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2233 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2234
91576cec 2235NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2236 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2237
7d9f747b
PP
2238NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2239 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2240
7d9f747b 2241NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2242
7d9f747b 2243NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2244
7d9f747b 2245NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2246
7d9f747b 2247NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2248
deafd5b3 2249
47db1125
NM
2250Exim version 4.69
2251-----------------
2252
4b3504d0
TK
2253TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2254 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2255 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2256
2257 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2258 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2259 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2260 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2261 build errors in sieve.c.
2262
81ea09ca
NM
2263NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2264 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2265 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2266
f13cddcb
SC
2267SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2268
7d9f747b 2269NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2270
7d9f747b 2271NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2272
7d9f747b 2273NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2274
2275
eb4c0de6
PH
2276Exim version 4.68
2277-----------------
2278
2279PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2280
6a3bceb1
PH
2281PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2282 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2283 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2284 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2285 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2286 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2287 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2288 for iplsearch lookups.
2289
2290 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2291 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2292 previously such lookups could never work.
2293
4c04137d 2294 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2295 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2296 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2297
2e30fa9d
TK
2298TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2299 version.
2300
0806a9c5
MH
2301MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2302 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2303 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2304 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2305 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2306 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2307
ae276964
TK
2308TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2309 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2310
0f2cbd1b
MH
2311MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2312 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2313 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2314 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2315 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2316 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2317
2b85bce7
PH
2318PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2319 local_scan API.
2320
93655c46
PH
2321PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2322
6c512171
PH
2323PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2324 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2325 encrypted.
2326
2327PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2328 by clients under certain conditions.
2329
aa6dc513
PH
2330PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2331 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2332
a96603a0
PH
2333PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2334
8f240103
PH
2335PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2336 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2337
2338PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2339
d677b2f2
PH
2340PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2341
d52120f2
PH
2342PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2343
64f2600a
PH
2344PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2345 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2346
8669f003
PH
2347PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2348
a4dc33a8
PH
2349PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2350 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2351
d6a60c0f
PH
2352PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2353
8f128379
PH
2354PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2355
8932dffe
PH
2356PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2357 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2358 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2359 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2360
ddea74fa 2361PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2362 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2363 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2364
ddea74fa 2365PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2366 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2367
ddea74fa
PH
2368PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2369
ce9f225c
PH
2370PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2371
19897d52
PH
2372PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2373
bc64a74d
PH
2374PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2375 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2376 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2377
eb4c0de6 2378
b4ed4da0
PH
2379Exim version 4.67
2380-----------------
2381
22ad45c9
MH
2382MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2383 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2384 Jan Srzednicki.
2385
b4ed4da0
PH
2386PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2387 issue a MAIL command.
2388
431b7361
PH
2389PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2390
2391 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2392
2393 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2394 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2395 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2396 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2397 item. This has been fixed.
2398
2399PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2400 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2401
83da1223
PH
2402PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2403 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2404
54fc8428
PH
2405PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2406 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2407 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2408
34c5e8dd
SC
2409SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2410
bbe15da8
PH
2411PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2412 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2413 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2414 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2415 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2416
0e8a9471
MH
2417MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2418 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2419 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2420
f0872424
PH
2421PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2422 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2423 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2424 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2425
b01dd148
PH
2426PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2427
6bf342e1
PH
2428PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2429
273f34d0
PH
2430PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2431 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2432 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2433 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2434 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2435
cf8b11a5
PH
2436PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2437
41c7c167
PH
2438PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2439 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2440 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2441 values).
2442
9c57cbc0
PH
2443PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2444
f3f065bb
PH
2445PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2446
047bdd8c
PH
2447PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2448
0ce9abe6
PH
2449PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2450
0e22dfd1
PH
2451PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2452
4c590bd1
PH
2453PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2454 no_callout_flush is set.
2455
09945f1e
PH
2456PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2457 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2458 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2459 fixed.
2460
c51b8e75
PH
2461PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2462
e28326d8 2463PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2464 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2465 other ACL rejections are.
2466
75b1493f
PH
2467PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2468 with slight modification.
2469
7c5214ec
PH
2470PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2471 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2472
4311097e
PH
2473PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2474 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2475 connection.
2476
29f89cad
PH
2477PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2478 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2479
5e687460
SC
2480SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2481
c3611384
PH
2482PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2483 expansion side effects.
2484
5a11a7b4
PH
2485PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2486 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2487 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2488 be the same.
2489
0e20aff9
MH
2490MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2491 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2492 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2493
ca86f471
PH
2494PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2495 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2496 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2497 were accidentally chopped off.
2498
a14e5636
PH
2499PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2500 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2501 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2502 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2503 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2504 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2505 pipelining has not been advertised.
2506
ec95d1a6
PH
2507PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2508
42855d71
PH
2509PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2510 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2511 This has been fixed.
2512
57c2c631
PH
2513PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2514 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2515 reported on Solaris.
2516
58c01c94
PH
2517PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2518 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2519 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2520 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2521 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2522 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2523 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2524
dee5a20a
PH
2525PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2526 cpus.
2527
d2ee6114
PH
2528PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2529
b2d5182b
PH
2530PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2531
79749a79
PH
2532PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2533 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2534 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2535 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2536 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2537 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2538
c456d9bb
PH
2539PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2540 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2541 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2542 host_all_ignored option.
2543
cd9868ec
PH
2544PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2545 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2546 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2547 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2548 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2549 is what is supposed to happen).
2550
ebeaf996
PH
2551PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2552 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2553 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2554 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2555 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2556 uses the Exim user.
2557
2679d413
PH
2558PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2559 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2560 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2561 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2562 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2563 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2564 users.
2565
84024b72
PH
2566PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2567
8005d38e
SC
2568SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2569 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2570 (Jez Hancock).
2571 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2572 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2573
3298c6c6
SC
2574SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2575
a43a27c5
PH
2576PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2577
58eb016e 2578PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2579 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2580 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2581 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2582 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2583 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2584 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2585 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2586 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2587 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2588 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2589
b43a74ea
PH
2590PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2591 advertised in response to EHLO.
2592
b4ed4da0 2593
5dd1517f
PH
2594Exim version 4.66
2595-----------------
2596
2597PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2598 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2599
2600 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2601 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2602
2603 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2604 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2605 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2606
2607 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2608 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2609 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2610 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2611 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2612
2613
93cfa765
TK
2614Exim version 4.65
2615-----------------
2616
2617TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2618 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2619 versions. (#438)
2620
d6066548
MH
2621MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2622 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2623 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2624
4362ff0d
PH
2625PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2626 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2627 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2628 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2629 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2630 rather than extend the field.
2631
93cfa765 2632
944e9e9c
TF
2633Exim version 4.64
2634-----------------
aa41d2de 2635
21d74bd9
TK
2636TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2637 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2638 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2639 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2640 these files.
2641
2642TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2643 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2644 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2645
2646TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2647 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2648 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2649
2650TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2651 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2652 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2653 in the field name.
2654
2b1c6e3a
PH
2655PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2656 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2657 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2658 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2659 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2660 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2661 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2662 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2663 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2664 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2665 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2666
1f872c80
PH
2667PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2668 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2669
2670PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2671 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2672 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2673 ignores EPIPE as well.
2674
d203e649
PH
2675PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2676 (quoted-printable decoding).
2677
cc2ed8f7 2678PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2679 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2680
ddfcd446
PH
2681PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2682
d45b1de8
PH
2683PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2684
2685PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2686
38a0a95f 2687PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2688 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2689
a2405d83
JJ
2690JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2691 in 4.64-PH/09.
2692
2693JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2694 miscellaneous code fixes
2695
6ea85e9a
PH
2696PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2697 rejections.
2698
26da7e20
PH
2699PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2700 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2701 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2702 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2703 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2704 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2705 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2706 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2707
14aa5a05 2708PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2709 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2710 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2711 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2712 function.
2713 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2714 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2715 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2716 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2717 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2718 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2719 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2720 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2721 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2722
ff75a1f7
PH
2723PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2724 decoding.
2725
e6f6568e
PH
2726PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2727 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2728 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2729 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2730 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2731 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2732 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2733 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2734
d6f6e0dc
PH
2735PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2736 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2737 list.
2738
322050c2
PH
2739PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2740 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2741 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2742 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2743 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2744 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2745 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2746 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2747 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2748 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2749 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2750 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2751 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2752
08955dd3
PH
2753PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2754 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2755 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2756 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2757 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2758 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2759 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2760
1eccaa59
PH
2761PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2762 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2763 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2764 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2765 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2766 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2767 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2768 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2769 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2770 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2771
602e59e5
PH
2772PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2773 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2774 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2775 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2776 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2777
411ef850
PH
2778PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2779 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2780 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2781 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2782 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2783 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2784 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2785
7befa435
PH
2786PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2787 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2788 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2789 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2790 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2791 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2792 been verified.
2793
48da4259 2794PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2795 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2796 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2797 and authorization.)
2798
48da4259
PH
2799PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2800 if any retry times were supplied.
2801
d1d5595c
PH
2802PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2803 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2804 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2805
0ef732d9
PH
2806PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2807
328895cc
PH
2808PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2809
fd700877
PH
2810PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2811 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2812 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2813 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2814 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2815 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2816
8dce1a6f
PH
2817PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2818 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2819
17af4a17
PH
2820PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2821 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2822 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2823
2824PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2825 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2826 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2827 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2828 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2829 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2830 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2831 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2832 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2833
2834 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2835 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2836 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2837 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2838 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2839 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2840 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2841 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2842 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2843
2844 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2845 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2846 hammering the server.
2847
c1114884
PH
2848PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2849 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2850
7a0743eb
PH
2851PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2852
0d85fa3f
PH
2853PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2854 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2855 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2856
1bf43b78
PH
2857PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2858 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2859 one case where this was not true.
2860
520de300
PH
2861PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2862 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2863 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2864 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2865 fails.
2866
48c7f9e2
PH
2867PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2868 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2869 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2870 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2871 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2872 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2873 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2874 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2875 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2876 smtp transport.
2877
99ea1c86
PH
2878PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2879 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2880 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2881 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2882
a2042e78
PH
2883PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2884 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2885
4fbcfc2e
PH
2886PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2887 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2888 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2889
aa41d2de
PH
2890PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2891
af561417
PH
2892PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2893
3cc66b45
PH
2894PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2895
194cc0e4
PH
2896PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2897 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2898 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2899 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2900
a401ddaa
PH
2901PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2902 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2903
4e88a19f
PH
2904PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2905 be meaningful with "accept".
2906
d7d7b289
SC
2907SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2908 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2909
2910SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2911 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2912 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2913
2914SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2915 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2916 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2917 there is data to show.
2918 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2919
2920SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2921 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2922 as well as the number of messages.
2923
2924SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2925 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2926 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2927
2928SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2929 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2930 have a flag are now skipped.
2931
2932SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2933 Added the -emptyok flag.
2934
2935SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2936 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2937
0ea2a468
JJ
2938JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2939 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2940 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2941
2942JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2943 match 4.64-PH/13
2944
2945JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2946 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2947
2948JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2949
2950JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2951 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2952
8a10f5a4
PH
2953PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2954
30e18802
PH
2955PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2956 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2957 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2958 contravention of the specifications.
2959
55728a4f
PH
2960PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2961 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2962 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2963
d7837193
PH
2964PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2965 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2966 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2967
87054a31
PH
2968PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2969
ea2c01d2
MH
2970MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2971 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2972 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2973 some point in the past.
2974
e4fa6968
PH
2975PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2976 transport during callout processing was broken.
2977
56f5d9bd
PH
2978PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2979 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2980
922e1c28
PH
2981PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2982 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2983
21eb6e72
PH
2984PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2985 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2986
a0540757
PH
2987PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2988
944e9e9c 2989
478be7b0
SC
2990Exim version 4.63
2991-----------------
2992
2993SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2994 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2995
2996SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2997 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2998 there is data to show.
2999 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3000
3001SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3002 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3003
2b965a65
TF
3004TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3005 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3006
45b91596
PH
3007TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3008 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3009
c59f5781
TF
3010TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3011 submissions from trusted users.
3012
90fc3069
TF
3013TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3014 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3015
6083aca0
TF
3016TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3017 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3018 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3019 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3020 there is now a framework to start from.
3021
765b530f
PH
3022PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3023 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3024 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3025
4e167a8c
PH
3026PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3027
4608d683
PH
3028PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3029
b8dc3e4a
PH
3030PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3031
5418e93b
PH
3032PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3033 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3034 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3035
b4a9bda2
PH
3036PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3037 libradius.
3038
45b91596
PH
3039PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3040 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3041 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3042
5547e2c5
PH
3043PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3044 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3045 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3046 its arguments.
3047
dbcef0ea
PH
3048PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3049 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3050 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3051 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3052 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3053
25257489
PH
3054PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3055 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3056
c816d124
PH
3057PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3058
a9ccd69a
PH
3059PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3060 operations in malware.c.
3061
75fa1910
PH
3062PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3063 signatures.
3064
a7d7aa58
PH
3065PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3066 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3067 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3068 all.
3069
42119b09
PH
3070PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3071 statements to "add_header".
3072
41609df5
PH
3073PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3074 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3075
a5bd321b
PH
3076PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3077 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3078 latter.
3079
e85a7ad5 3080PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3081 so that it is now:
3082
e85a7ad5
PH
3083 ${if or { \
3084 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3085 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3086 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3087 }{no}{yes}}
3088
e85a7ad5
PH
3089 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3090 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3091
d8fe1c03
PH
3092PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3093 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3094
16282d2b
PH
3095PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3096 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3097 any possible encoding problems.
3098
35d40a98
PH
3099PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3100 but not after initializing Perl.
3101
034d99ab
PH
3102PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3103 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3104 apparently, which is not desirable.
3105
6ec97b1b
PH
3106PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3107 queries.
3108
e22ca4ac
JJ
3109JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3110 --not options
3111
3112JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3113
33d73e3b
PH
3114PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3115 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3116 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3117 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3118
9ecb03f3
PH
3119PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3120 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3121 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3122
084efe8d
PH
3123PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3124 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3125 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3126 0.12.
3127
366fc9f0
PH
3128PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3129 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3130 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3131 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3132 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3133
c59f5781 3134
c887c79e
TF
3135Exim version 4.62
3136-----------------
3137
3138TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3139 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3140
1cce3af8
PH
3141PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3142 patch).
3143
afb3eaaf
PH
3144PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3145 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3146 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3147 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3148 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3149 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3150 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3151 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3152 451 error is used.
3153
e173618b
PH
3154PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3155
dd16e114
PH
3156PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3157 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3158 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3159
f7fd3850
PH
3160PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3161 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3162 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3163 odd errors.
3164
d87df92c
PH
3165PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3166 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3167
7e9f683d
PH
3168PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3169 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3170 option (which defaults to 0600).
3171
bfad5236
PH
3172PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3173
01c490df
PH
3174PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3175 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3176 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3177 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3178 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3179 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3180 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3181
d6629cdc
PH
3182PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3183
1cce3af8 3184
214e2000
PH
3185Exim version 4.61
3186-----------------
3187
3188PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3189 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3190 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3191 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3192 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3193 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3194 addresses as local.
3195
f9daeae0
PH
3196PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3197 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3198
7e66e54d
PH
3199PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3200
c8ea1597
PH
3201PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3202 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3203 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3204 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3205 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3206 grumble.
3207
911f6fde
PH
3208PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3209 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3210
47ca6d6c
PH
3211PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3212 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3213 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3214 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3215 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3216
ed0e9820
PH
3217PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3218 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3219 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3220 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3221
eff37e47
PH
3222PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3223 be the same on different OS.
3224
1921d2ea
PH
3225PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3226 testing.
3227
b3f69ca8
JJ
3228JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3229 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3230
3231JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3232 in 4.61-PH/06
3233
424a1c63
PH
3234PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3235 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3236 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3237 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3238 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3239 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3240 bounce message.
3241
7a100415
PH
3242PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3243 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3244 when Exim was called.
3245
19b9dc85
PH
3246PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3247 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3248
309bd837
PH
3249PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3250 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3251 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3252 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3253
59e82a2a
PH
3254PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3255 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3256 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3257 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3258 changes:
3259
3260 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3261 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3262 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3263
3264 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3265 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3266 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3267
9edc04ce
PH
3268PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3269 feature).
3270
1349e1e5
PH
3271PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3272 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3273 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3274 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3275 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3276 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3277 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3278 values from the SRV records were lost.
3279
ea49d0e1
PH
3280PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3281 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3282 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3283
064a94c9
PH
3284PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3285 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3286 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3287
727071f8
PH
3288PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3289 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3290 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3291 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3292 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3293 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3294 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3295 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3296 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3297 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3298
f78eb7c6
PH
3299PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3300 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3301 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3302
21c28500
PH
3303PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3304 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3305
3306PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3307 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3308 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3309 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3310 is given.
3311
1688f43b
PH
3312PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3313 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3314 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3315
3316PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3317 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3318 PH/23 above applies.
3319
9675b384
PH
3320PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3321 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3322 (for which there is an explicit test).
3323
6a3f1455
PH
3324PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3325
dac79d3e
PH
3326PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3327 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3328 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3329 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3330 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3331
5977a0b3
PH
3332PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3333 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3334 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3335 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3336
c91535f3
PH
3337PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3338 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3339 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3340
0d46a8c8
PH
3341PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3342
278c6e6c
PH
3343PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3344
2cbb4081
PH
3345PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3346 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3347 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3348
3eef829e
PH
3349PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3350 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3351 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3352 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3353 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3354
1ab95fa6
PH
3355PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3356 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3357 the message gets confusing).
3358
230205fc
PH
3359PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3360 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3361 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3362 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3363
75e0e026
PH
3364PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3365 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3366 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3367 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3368 same order.
3369
3370PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3371 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3372 the different processes.
3373
145396a6
PH
3374PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3375
3cd34f13
PH
3376PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3377
11121d3d
JJ
3378JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3379 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3380
3381JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3382 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3383
3384JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3385 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3386 messages matching specified criteria.
3387
8def5aaf
PH
3388PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3389
929ba01c
PH
3390PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3391 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3392
2632889e
PH
3393PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3394 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3395 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3396 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3397 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3398 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3399 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3400 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3401 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3402 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3403
944a9c55
PH
3404PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3405 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3406 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3407
4a23603b
PH
3408PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3409
4730f942
PH
3410PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3411 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3412 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3413 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3414 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3415 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3416 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3417 the variable.
3418
30dba1e6
PH
3419PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3420 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3421
382afc6b
PH
3422PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3423
a86229cf
PH
3424PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3425
50c99ba6
PH
3426PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3427
d35e429d
PH
3428PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3429 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3430 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3431 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3432 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3433 size of the count of files.
3434
f90d018c
PH
3435PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3436
75def545
PH
3437PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3438 used in LMTP mode:
3439
3440 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3441 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3442 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3443 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3444
3445 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3446 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3447 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3448
3449PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3450 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3451 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3452 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3453 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3454
c46782ef
PH
3455PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3456 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3457
71fafd95
PH
3458PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3459 will now be deprecated.
3460
2c5db4fd
PH
3461PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3462
9cf6b11a
JJ
3463JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3464 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3465 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3466
3467JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3468 with very large, slow to parse queues
3469
3470JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3471
3472JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3473
898d150f
PH
3474PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3475 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3476 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3477 SMTP output lines.
3478
46218253
PH
3479PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3480 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3481 Sieve code now uses this.
3482
e97957bc
PH
3483PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3484 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3485
81e509d7
PH
3486PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3487 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3488
3d240ff7
PH
3489PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3490
b37c4101
PH
3491PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3492 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3493 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3494 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3495 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3496
79378e0f
PH
3497PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3498 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3499 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3500 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3501
e49c7bb4
PH
3502PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3503
d114ec46
PH
3504PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3505
f3d7df6c
PH
3506PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3507 is preferred over IPv4.
3508
715ab376
PH
3509PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3510 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3511 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3512 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3513 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3514 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3515 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3516
6b31b150
PH
3517PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3518 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3519 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3520
3521PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3522
d515a917
PH
3523PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3524 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3525 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3526 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3527 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3528 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3529 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3530 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3531 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3532 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3533 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3534
9b8fadde
PH
3535PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3536 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3537 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3538
214e2000 3539
5de37277
PH
3540Exim version 4.60
3541-----------------
3542
cc38ddbf
PH
3543PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3544
3545 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3546 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3547
3548 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3549 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3550 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3551
72fdd6ae
PH
3552PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3553
3554 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3555 not a single digit.
3556
3557 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3558 string.
3559
3560 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3561 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3562 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3563 silly things.
3564
3565 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3566 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3567
3568 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3569 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3570
cb741023
PH
3571PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3572 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3573 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3574
f174f16e
PH
3575PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3576 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3577
c25242d7
PH
3578PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3579 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3580
3581 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3582
3583 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3584 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3585 this:
3586
3587 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3588
82c19f95
PH
3589PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3590 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3591 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3592 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3593 identical. For example:
3594
3595 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3596
3597 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3598 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3599 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3600
d7ffbc12
PH
3601PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3602 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3603 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3604 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3605
9f526266
PH
3606PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3607 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3608 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3609 message.
3610
87fcc8b9
PH
3611PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3612
3613 o fixes some comments
3614 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3615 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3616 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3617 and documents the missing references header update
3618
3619 and most important:
3620
3621 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3622 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3623 result)
3624
456682f5
PH
3625PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3626 Electronic Mail") by including:
3627
3628 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3629
3630 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3631 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3632 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3633 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3634 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3635
3636 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3637
3638 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3639
3640 The auto-replied keyword:
3641
3642 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3643 message by an automatic process,
3644
3645 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3646
3647 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3648 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3649
3650 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3651 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3652 other messages.
3653
3e46c1aa
PH
3654PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3655 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3656
49826d12
PH
3657PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3658
eba0c039
PH
3659PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3660 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3661 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3662
a0d6ba8a
PH
3663PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3664 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3665 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3666
f0917727
PH
3667PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3668 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3669 and treats the condition as false.
3670
096fee00
PH
3671PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3672
024bd3c2
PH
3673PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3674 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3675 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3676 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3677 not changing the active code.
3678
3679 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3680 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3681
3682 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3683 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3684
df199fec
PH
3685PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3686 (Bugzilla #53).
3687
d27f1df3
PH
3688PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3689 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3690 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3691 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3692 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3693 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3694 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3695 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3696 the text comparison.
3697
96776534
PH
3698PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3699 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3700 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3701 The same fix has been applied.
3702
5de37277 3703
9a799bc0
PH
3704Exim version 4.54
3705-----------------
3706
3707PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3708 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3709 It now does.
3710
99a4b039
PH
3711PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3712 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3713
3714PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3715
4b233853
PH
3716PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3717 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3718 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3719 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3720 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3721
8857ccfd
PH
3722TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3723 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3724 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3725 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3726 or /domain=).
3727
433a2980
PH
3728PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3729 testing suite.
3730
3e46c1aa 3731
9a799bc0 3732
e3a311ba
TK
3733Exim version 4.53
3734-----------------
3735
3736TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3737 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3738
13b685f9
PH
3739PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3740
395ff96d
PH
3741PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3742
5b68f6e4
PH
3743PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3744 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3745 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3746
1ab52c69
PH
3747PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3748 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3749 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3750
b07e6aa3
PH
3751PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3752 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3753 operating systems.
3754
254e032f
PH
3755PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3756 ${stat: expansion item.
3757
3af76a81
PH
3758PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3759 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3760
2548ba04
PH
3761PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3762 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3763 file for comments.
3764
b6c6011d
PH
3765PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3766
cf39cf57
PH
3767PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3768 setting.
3769
f1513293
PH
3770PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3771 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3772
727549a4
PH
3773TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3774
af46795e
PH
3775PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3776 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3777 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3778 the end of the subprocess.
3779
d7b47fd0
PH
3780PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3781 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3782 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3783 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3784 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3785
ee744174
JJ
3786JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3787
b582ab87
PH
3788TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3789
41a13e0a
PH
3790PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3791 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3792
f625cc5a
PH
3793PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3794
3795PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3796
21f7af35
PH
3797PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3798 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3799 HP-UX compiler.
3800
31480e42
PH
3801PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3802
2d280592
PH
3803PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3804 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3805 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3806
7cd1141b
PH
3807PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3808 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3809
3810PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3811 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3812
750af86e
PH
3813PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3814 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3815
3816 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3817 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3818
3819 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3820 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3821 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3822 contributed by a Radius user.
3823
3824PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3825 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3826
4304270b
TK
3827TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3828 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3829
750af86e
PH
3830PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3831 available.
3832
64ffc24f
PH
3833PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3834 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3835 received.
3836
5dd9625b
PH
3837PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3838 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3839 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3840 header lines when this was not necessary.
3841
5591031b
PH
3842PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3843
ba18e66a
PH
3844PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3845 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3846 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3847 exists".
3848
9cec981f
PH
3849PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3850 -bV or -d is used.
3851
aa2b5c79
PH
3852PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3853 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3854 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3855 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3856
48a53b7f
PH
3857PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3858
1c59d63b
PH
3859PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3860
671012da
TK
3861TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3862
1509d3a8
PH
3863PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3864
3865PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3866 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3867 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3868 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3869 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3870 settings.
3871
3872PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3873
2fe1a124
PH
3874PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3875 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3876 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3877 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3878 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3879 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3880 which is clearly wrong.
3881
8800895a
PH
3882PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3883
ccfdb010
PH
3884PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3885 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3886 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3887 subsequently added.
3888
1130bfb0
PH
3889PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3890 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3891
ebcb507f
PH
3892PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3893
c35e155c
PH
3894PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3895 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3896
95d1f782
PH
3897PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3898 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3899
fd6de02e
PH
3900PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3901 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3902
58de37c5
PH
3903PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3904 recipients, not senders.
3905
261cf466
TF
3906TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3907 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3908
3ee512ff
PH
3909PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3910
e08c430f
PH
3911PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3912
bef5a11f
PH
3913PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3914 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3915 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3916 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3917
7546de58
TF
3918TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3919
e5d5a95f
TF
3920TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3921 clock is set back in time.
3922
2e88a017
TF
3923TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3924 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3925
a5f65aa4
TF
3926TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3927 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3928
e7726cbf
PH
3929PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3930 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3931 (see PH/47 above).
3932
a7fdad5b
TF
3933TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3934 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3935 header rewrites.
3936
6af56900
PH
3937PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3938 type ("H").
3939
0925ede6
PH
3940PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3941
66afa403
TF
3942TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3943 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3944 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3945
0154e85a
TF
3946TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3947 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3948 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3949 helo verification defer as a failure.
3950
16f12c76
PH
3951PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3952 actual error message.
3953
bbe902f0 3954
e5a9dba6
PH
3955Exim version 4.52
3956-----------------
3957
3958TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3959
22c3b60b
PH
3960PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3961 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3962 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3963 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3964
06a9b4b5
PH
3965TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3966
c1ac6996
PH
3967PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3968 can still be requested.
3969
9c7a242c
PH
3970PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3971 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3972 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3973 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3974
87ba3f5f
PH
3975TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3976 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3977 circumstances, but probably never did.
3978
3979PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3980 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3981 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3982 in the header line.
3983
29aba418
TF
3984TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3985
fe0dab11
TF
3986TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3987 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3988
11d337a4
TK
3989TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3990
3991TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3992
415c8f3b
PH
3993PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3994 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3995 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3996 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3997 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3998 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3999
958541e9
PH
4000PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4001 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4002 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4003 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4004 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4005 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4006
c206415f
TK
4007TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4008 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4009
2a4be8f9
PH
4010PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4011 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4012
1cba11c5
SC
4013SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4014 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4015
4c04137d 4016SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4017
4018SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4019
4020SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4021
4022SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4023
4024SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4025
4026SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4027
1005d00e
TK
4028TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4029
4030TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4031 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4032 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4033
4034TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4035 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4036 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4037 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4038
9b4768fa
PH
4039PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4040 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4041 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4042
4043PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4044 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4045 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4046 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4047
0d7eb84a
PH
4048PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4049 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4050 to be made).
4051
4052PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4053 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4054 should work with maildirs and everything.
4055
40727bee
TK
4056TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4057 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4058
554d2369
TF
4059TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4060 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4061
1f922db1
PH
4062PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4063 function for BDB 4.3.
4064
ef213c3b
PH
4065PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4066
8ac170f3
PH
4067PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4068 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4069 involved.
4070
b1c749bb
PH
4071PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4072 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4073 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4074 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4075 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4076 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4077
4aac9b49
PH
4078PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4079 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4080 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4081 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4082 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4083 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4084 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4085 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4086
294520c8
TK
4087TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4088 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4089 details.
4090
5bd022fe
PH
4091PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4092 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4093
90e9ce59
PH
4094PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4095 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4096 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4097 test. It is now used for both.
4098
5ea81592
PH
4099PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4100 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4101 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4102 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4103 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4104 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4105
c6c2dc1d
PH
4106PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4107 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4108 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4109 string_vformat().
4110
fffffe4c
PH
4111PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4112 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4113 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4114
9a26b6b2
PH
4115PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4116 experimental DomainKeys support:
4117
4118 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4119 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4120 the control was given.
4121
4122 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4123
4aee0225
PH
4124PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4125
32d668a5
PH
4126PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4127
8187c3f3
PH
4128PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4129 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4130 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4131 db.h files).
4132
ff790e47 4133PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4134 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4135 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4136 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4137 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4138 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4139 course.
ff790e47 4140
5417f6d1
PH
4141PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4142 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4143 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4144 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4145 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4146 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4147
59cf8544
PH
4148PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4149 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4150 do -d+all out of habit.
4151
e7ad8a65
PH
4152PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4153 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4154 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4155
ade42478
PH
4156PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4157 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4158 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4159 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4160 record types that Exim uses.
4161
182ad5cf
PH
4162PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4163 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4164 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4165 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4166 non-existent file that was broken.
4167
b0d9fc80
TK
4168TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4169 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4170
4171TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4172 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4173 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4174
4175TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4176
47c7a64a
PH
4177PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4178 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4179 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4180 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4181 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4182 same time.
4183
a388bce4
SC
4184SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4185 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4186 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4187 at a slight CPU cost.
4188
4189SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4190 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4191
4192SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4193 by Marc Sherman.
4194
0793e4ed
SC
4195SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4196
c58b88df
PH
4197PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4198 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4199
e7ad8a65 4200
7982096b
PH
4201Exim version 4.51
4202-----------------
4203
1a46a8c5
PH
4204TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4205 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4206
2f079f46 4207TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4208
4209TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4210
4211PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4212 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4213
4214PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4215 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4216 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4217 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4218 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4219 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4220 file.
4221
4222PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4223 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4224 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4225 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4226 these two options.
4227
4228PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4229 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4230 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4231 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4232 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4233 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4234 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4235 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4236
4237PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4238 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4239
4240PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4241 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4242 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4243 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4244 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4245 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4246
4247PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4248 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4249 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4250 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4251
4252PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4253 Finch).
4254
4255PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4256 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4257
49c2d5ea
PH
4258PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4259 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4260 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4261 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4262 message.
49c2d5ea 4263
bf759a8b
PH
4264PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4265
83364d30
PH
4266PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4267 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4268
7999bbd7
PH
4269PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4270 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4271 to what was transported.)
4272
7dbf77c9
PH
4273TF/01 Added $received_time.
4274
74e0617f
PH
4275PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4276 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4277 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4278 spamd_address settings.
4279
2f079f46
PH
4280PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4281 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4282 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4283 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4284 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4285
8c841523
PH
4286PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4287
7766a4f0
PH
4288PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4289 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4290 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4291 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4292 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4293
8b417f2c
PH
4294PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4295 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4296
901f42cb
PH
4297PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4298 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4299 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4300 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4301 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4302 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4303 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4304 for failure.
4305
f9b9210e
PH
4306PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4307 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4308 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4309 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4310 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4311 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4312 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4313 "input=".
4314
54cdb463
PH
4315PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4316
cf00dad6
PH
4317PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4318 driver and ACL definitions.
4319
acb1b346
PH
4320PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4321 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4322
c5ddb310
PH
4323PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4324 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4325 understands it better than I do:
4326
4327 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4328 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4329
4330 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4331 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4332 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4333 => three warnings about OTP not working
4334 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4335
4336 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4337 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4338 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4339 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4340 for each call.)
4341 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4342 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4343
4344 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4345 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4346 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4347
31619da6
PH
4348PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4349 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4350 specified.
4351
bebaf0fc
PH
4352PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4353 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4354 "Linux".
4355
475fe28a
PH
4356PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4357 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4358 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4359
4360 warn !verify = sender
4361 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4362
4363 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4364 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4365
7e8bec7a
PH
4366PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4367
4368 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4369 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4370
4371 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4372 nomenclature these days.)
4373
e4a89c47
PH
4374PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4375 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4376
5ca2a9a1
PH
4377PH/30 In these circumstances:
4378 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4379 . First host does not offer TLS;
4380 . First host accepts first address;
4381 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4382 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4383 . Second host accepts second address.
4384 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4385 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4386 address.
7e8bec7a 4387
c688b954
PH
4388PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4389 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4390 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4391 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4392 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4393
fed77020
PH
4394PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4395 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4396
7fe1560f
PH
4397PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4398 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4399
ebb6e6d5
PH
4400PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4401 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4402 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4403
9c4e8f60
PH
4404PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4405 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4406 overlooked.
4407
4408PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4409
d7174846
PH
4410PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4411 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4412 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4413 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4414 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4415 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4416 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4417
4418 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4419 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4420 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4421 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4422 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4423
4424 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4425 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4426 routed further.
4427
cfe75fc3
PH
4428PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4429 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4430 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4431 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4432 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4433 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4434
be22d70e
PH
4435PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4436
0612b098
PH
4437PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4438 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4439 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4440 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4441 printable escape sequences.
4442
2e0c1448
PH
4443PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4444 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4445 body only.
4446
447d236c
PH
4447PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4448 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4449 are as follows:
4450
4451 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4452 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4453 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4454 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4455 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4456
4457 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4458 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4459 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4460
d20976dc
PH
4461PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4462
f656d135
PH
4463PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4464 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4465 play with."
4466
2e2a30b4
PH
4467PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4468 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4469 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4470 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4471 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4472 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4473 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4474 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4475 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4476 the log output.
4477
9176e9f0
PH
4478PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4479 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4480 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4481 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4482 "make".
4483
7982096b 4484
bbe902f0
PH
4485A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4486----------------------------------------
4487
4488Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4489changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4490needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4491in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4492that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4493release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4494from 4.43.
4495
4496I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44974.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4498those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4499historical information.
4500
4501
f7b63901 4502Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4503-----------------
4504
5fe762f6
PH
4505 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4506
139059f6 4507 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4508 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4509
7086e875
PH
4510 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4511 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4512 place.
4513
35af9f61
PH
4514 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4515 filter fails to execute.
4516
b668c215
PH
4517 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4518 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4519 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4520 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4521 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4522
a494b1e1
PH
4523 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4524
4525 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4526 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4527 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4528 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4529
c5fcb476
PH
4530 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4531 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4532 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4533 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4534 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4535
69358f02
PH
4536 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4537
5be20824
PH
453810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4539
eb2c0248
PH
454011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4541 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4542 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4543 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4544
2a3eea10
PH
454512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4546 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4547 sender verification.
4548
454913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4550 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4551
23c7ff99
PH
455214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4553
4deaf07d
PH
455415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4555 connection timeout.
4556
926e1192
PH
455716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4558 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4559
650edc6f
PH
456017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4561 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4562
2c7db3f5
PH
456318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4564 information about exactly what failed.
4565
3d235903
PH
456619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4567
7c7ad977
PH
456820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4569 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4570 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4571
981756db
PH
457221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4573 It is now set to "smtps".
4574
d4eb88df
PH
457522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4576 ignore_target_hosts.
4577
457823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4579 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4580 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4581 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4582 "[x.x.x.x]".
4583
7d468ab8
PH
458424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4585 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4586 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4587
458825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4589 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4590 wake it up if nothing else does.
4591
62c0818f
PH
459226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4593 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4594 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4595 end up negative.
4596
26034054
PH
459727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4598 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4599
af66f652
PH
460028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4601
90af77f4
PH
460229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4603 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4604 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4605 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4606 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4607 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4608 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4609 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4610
d8ef3577
PH
461130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4612 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4613 than one IP address.
4614
5cb8cbc6
PH
461531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4616 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4617 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4618 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4619
14702f5b
PH
462032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4621 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4622 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4623 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4624 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4625 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4626
063b1e99
PH
462733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4628 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4629 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4630 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4631
652e1b65
PH
463234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4633 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4634 respected.
4635
6f0c9a4f
PH
463635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4637 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4638 $sender_host_address.
4639
33397d19
PH
464036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4641 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4642 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4643 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4644 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4645 very small.
4646
7bb56e1f
PH
464737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4648
4649 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4650 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4651
ea3bc19b
PH
4652 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4653 just the host names, not the priorities.
4654
4655 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4656 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4657 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4658
ea3bc19b 4659 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4660 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4661
0bcb2a0e
PH
466238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4663 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4664 domain.
4665
2ac0e484
PH
466639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4667
4e1fde53
PH
466840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4669 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4670
de365ded
PH
467141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4672 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4673 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4674
f05da2e8
PH
467542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4676
d6453af2
PH
467743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4678
f7b63901
PH
467944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4680
468145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4682 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4683 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4684 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4685 because the tests only now provoked it.
4686
a444213a
PH
468746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4688 (this can affect the format of dates).
4689
0ec020ea
PH
469047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4691 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4692 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4693 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4694
b1206957
PH
469548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4696
469749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4698 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4699 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4700 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4701
26dd5a95
PH
470250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4703 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4704 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4705
343b2385
PH
470651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4707 autoreply.
4708
1c5466b9
PH
470952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4710 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4711 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4712 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4713 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4714 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4715 is going on).
4716
55ee9ee3
PH
471753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4718 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4719 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4720 the line.
4721
d38f8232
PH
472254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4723 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4724 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4725
4726 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4727 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4728 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4729 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4730 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4731 so I produce this patch..."
4732
3295e65b
PH
4733 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4734 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4735 is not defined.
4736
7102e136
PH
473755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4738 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4739 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4740 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4741 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4742
3ca0ba97
PH
474356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4744
c2bcbe20
PH
474557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4746 long debug lines gets shown.
4747
18ce445d
PH
474858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4749 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4750
1f5b4c3d
PH
475159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4752
4753 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4754 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4755 of $primary_hostname.
4756
b975ba52
PH
475760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4758 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4759 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4760 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4761 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4762 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4763 by change 4.50/55 above.
4764
4765 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4766 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4767 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4768 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4769 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4770 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4771 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4772
477361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4774 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4775 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4776 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4777
17ffcae7
PH
477862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4779 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4780
d95f9fdb
PH
478163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4782 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4783 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4784 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4785 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4786
86b8287f
PH
478764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4788 This has been fixed.
4789
60dc5e56
PH
479065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4791 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4792 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4793 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4794 the caching.)
4795
533244af
PH
479666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4797
a5a28604
PH
479867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4799 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4800 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4801 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4802
7e634d24
PH
480368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4804 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4805
3e11c26b
PH
480669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4807 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4808 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4809
6729cf78
PH
481070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4811 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4812 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4813 message there.
4814
00f00ca5
PH
481571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4816 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4817 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4818
c9bdd01c
PH
481972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4820 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4821 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4822 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4823
d43194df
PH
482473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4825 during host lookups.
4826
fe5b5d0b
PH
482774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4828 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4829
4830 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4831
76a2d7ba
PH
483275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4833 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4834 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4835 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4836 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4837 background.
4838
483976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4840 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4841
04f7d5b9
PH
484277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4843 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4844 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4845
bc60667e
PH
484678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4847
bb6e88ff
PH
484879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4849 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4850 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4851 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4852 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4853 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4854 process earlier.
4855
1e70f85b
PH
485680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4857 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4858 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4859 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4860 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4861
486281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4863 tables).
4864
4e01f9d6
PH
486582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4866
1ee1cef2
PH
486783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4868 "vacation" handling.
4869
6e2b4ccc
PH
487084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4871 OS variants using glibc.
4872
8e669ac1
PH
487385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4874
495ae4b0 4875
bbe902f0
PH
4876----------------------------------------------------
4877See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4878----------------------------------------------------
4879
4880
4881Exim version 4.44
4882-----------------
4883
4884 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4885 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4886 transport
4887
4888 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4889 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4890 place.
4891
4892 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4893 filter fails to execute.
4894
4895 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4896 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4897 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4898 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4899 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4900
4901 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4902 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4903 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4904 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4905
4906 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4907 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4908 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4909 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4910 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4911
4912 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4913
4914 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4915 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4916 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4917 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4918
4919 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4920 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4921 sender verification.
4922
492310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4924 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4925
492611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4927 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4928
492912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4930 ignore_target_hosts.
4931
493213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4933 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4934 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4935 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4936 "[x.x.x.x]".
4937
493814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4939 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4940 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4941
494215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4943 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4944 wake it up if nothing else does.
4945
494616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4947 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4948 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4949 end up negative.
4950
495117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4952 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4953
ea3a6f44 495418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4955
495619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4957 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4958 empty pattern.
4959
496020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4961 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4962 one IP address.
4963
ea3a6f44
NM
496421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4965 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4966 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4967 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4968 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4969 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4970
ea3a6f44
NM
497122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4972 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4973 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4974
497523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4976 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4977 $sender_host_address.
4978
497924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4980
ea3a6f44
NM
498125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4982 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4983 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4984
498526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4986 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4987
ea3a6f44
NM
498827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4989 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4990
ea3a6f44
NM
499128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4992 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4993 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4994 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4995
499629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4997 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4998 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4999
ea3a6f44
NM
500030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5001 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5002 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5003 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5004
ea3a6f44
NM
500531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5006 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5007 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5008
ea3a6f44
NM
500931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5010 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5011
ea3a6f44
NM
501232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5013 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5014 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5015 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5016 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5017 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5018 is going on).
bbe902f0 5019
ea3a6f44
NM
502033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5021 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5022 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5023 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5024 CAN-2005-0021
5025
ea3a6f44
NM
502634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5027 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5028 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5029 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5030 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5031 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5032 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5033
5034 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5035 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5036 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5037 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5038 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5039 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5040 CAN-2005-0021
5041
ea3a6f44
NM
504235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5043 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5044 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5045 CAN-2005-0022
5046
ea3a6f44
NM
504736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5048 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5049 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5050 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5051 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5052
ea3a6f44
NM
505337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5054 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5055 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5056 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5057 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5058
ea3a6f44
NM
505938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5060 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5061 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5062 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5063 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5064
5065
495ae4b0
PH
5066Exim version 4.43
5067-----------------
5068
5069 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5070 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5071 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5072 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5073 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5074 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5075 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5076
5077 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5078 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5079 the delivery.
5080
5081 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5082
5083 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5084
5085 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5086 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5087 to local_scan().
5088
5089 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5090 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5091 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5092 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5093 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5094
5095 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5096 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5097
5098 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5099
5100 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5101
510210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5103 header_sender only.
5104
510511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5106 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5107
510812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5109 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5110 affecting debugging statements).
5111
511213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5113
511414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5115 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5116 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5117 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5118 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5119 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5120 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5121 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5122 after the received time, and all would be well.
5123
512415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5125 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5126 condition in an expansion string.
5127
512816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5129
513017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5131 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5132 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5133 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5134 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5135 job under whatever limits there are.
5136
513718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5138
513919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5140 space).
5141
514220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5143 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5144 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5145 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5146 return path is set.
5147
514821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5149 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5150 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5151 binary data in such strings.
5152
515322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5154
515523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5156 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5157 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5158 failure, which is pointless.
5159
516024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5161
516225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5163
516426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5165 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5166 Sender: header lines.
5167
516827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5169 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5170 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5171
517228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5173 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5174 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5175 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5176 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5177 happens.
5178
517929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5180 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5181 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5182 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5183 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5184
518530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5186 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5187 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5188 1024.
5189
519031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5191 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5192
519332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5194 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5195
519633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5197
519832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5199
520033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5201
520234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5203 syntax error.
5204
520535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5206
520736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5208
520937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5210 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5211 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5212 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5213
521438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5215 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5216
5217
5218Exim version 4.42
5219-----------------
5220
5221 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5222 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5223 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5224 it was not quoted.
5225 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5226 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5227 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5228 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5229 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5230 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5231
5232 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5233 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5234 verification failure".
5235
5236 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5237 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5238 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5239 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5240
5241 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5242 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5243 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5244 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5245 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5246 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5247 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5248 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5249 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5250 treated as a timeout.
5251
5252 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5253 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5254 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5255 not set for Exim filters).
5256
5257 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5258 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5259 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5260
5261 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5262
5263 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5264 try to make them clearer.
5265
5266 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5267 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5268
5269 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5270
5271 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5272
527310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5274 only the Cygwin environment.
5275
527611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5277 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5278 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5279 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5280 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5281
528212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5283 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5284 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5285 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5286 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5287 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5288 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5289
529013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5291 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5292
529314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5294
5295 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5296 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5297 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5298
5299 To: susanne@some.where
5300
5301 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5302 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5303 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5304 of addresses in From: header lines).
5305
5306 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5307 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5308 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5309
5310 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5311 treated as non-personal.
5312
5313 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5314 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5315
531615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5317
531816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5319
532017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5321 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5322 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5323
532418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5325 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5326
532719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5328 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5329 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5330 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5331 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5332 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5333
533420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5335 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5336 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5337 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5338 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5339 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5340 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5341 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5342
5343 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5344
534521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5346 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5347
534822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5349 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5350 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5351
535223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5353 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5354
535524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5356 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5357 rather than long int.
5358
535925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5360
536126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5362
5363
5364Exim version 4.41
5365-----------------
5366
5367 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5368 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5369 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5370 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5371 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5372 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5373
5374
5375Exim version 4.40
5376-----------------
5377
5378 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5379 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5380
5381 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5382 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5383 socklen_t is defined.
5384
5385 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5386 always exist.
5387
5388 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5389 configured.
5390
5391 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5392 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5393 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5394 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5395 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5396
5397 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5398 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5399 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5400 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5401
5402 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5403 of flapping under certain conditions.
5404
5405 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5406 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5407 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5408
5409 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5410
541110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5412
541311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5414 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5415 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5416 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5417
541812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5419 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5420 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5421 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5422 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5423 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5424 preserved with the message after it was received.
5425
542613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5427 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5428 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5429 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5430 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5431 test suite worked just fine.
5432
543314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5434 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5435 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5436
543715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5438 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5439 string.
5440
544116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5442 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5443 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5444 does not fully solve it.
5445
544617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5447 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5448 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5449 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5450 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5451
545218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5453 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5454 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5455
545619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5457 string, for example:
5458
5459 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5460
5461 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5462 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5463 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5464 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5465 the routers could not see them.
5466
546720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5468 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5469
547021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5471 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5472 output).
5473
547422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5475 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5476 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5477 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5478 that needed quoting.
5479
548023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5481 was not being matched caselessly.
5482
548324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5484 backslashes.
5485
548625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5487 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5488 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5489 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5490 when use_sender is false.
5491
549226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5493
549427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5495
549628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5497
549829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5499 the configuration file.
5500
550130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5502 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5503
550431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5505
550632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5507 bytes in the message body.
5508
550933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5510 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5511 delivery.
5512
551334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5514
551535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5516
551736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5518 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5519 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5520 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5521 another IP address.
5522
5523
5524Exim version 4.34
5525-----------------
5526
5527 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5528 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5529
5530 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5531 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5532 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5533 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5534 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5535
5536 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5537 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5538
5539 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5540 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5541 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5542
5543 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5544 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5545 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5546
5547 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5548 for routers.
5549
5550 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5551 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5552 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5553 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5554 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5555 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5556 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5557
5558
5559Exim version 4.33
5560-----------------
5561
5562 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5563 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5564 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5565 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5566 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5567 default (and expected) setting.
5568
5569 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5570 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5571 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5572 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5573
5574 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5575 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5576
5577 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5578 in domain lists.
5579
5580 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5581 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5582 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5583 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5584 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5585 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5586
5587 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5588 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5589 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5590
5591 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5592 part (NOT match_host).
5593
5594 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5595
5596 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5597 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5598 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5599 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5600 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5601 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5602 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5603 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5604 the same named file.
5605
560610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5607 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5608 when Exim is built.
5609
561011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5611 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5612 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5613 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5614 a host name.
5615
561612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5617 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5618 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5619
562013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5621
562214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5623
562415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5625
562616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5627 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5628
562917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5630 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5631 before starting the TLS session.
5632
563318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5634
563519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5636 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5637
563820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5639 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5640 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5641 colon in the middle).
5642
5643
5644Exim version 4.32
5645-----------------
5646
5647 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5648 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5649 multiple configurations are in use.
5650
5651 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5652 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5653 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5654 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5655 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5656 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5657
5658 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5659 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5660
5661 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5662 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5663 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5664
5665 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5666 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5667 occurs.
5668
5669 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5670 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5671
5672 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5673
5674 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5675 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5676
5677 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5678
5679 -prval:sval
5680
5681 is equivalent to
5682
5683 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5684
5685 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5686 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5687 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5688 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5689 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5690
569110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5692 Exim's behaviour:
5693
5694 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5695 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5696 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5697 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5698 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5699 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5700
5701 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5702 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5703 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5704 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5705 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5706 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5707 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5708 string.
5709
5710 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5711 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5712 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5713 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5714 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5715
571611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5717
571812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5719 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5720 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5721
572213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5723
572414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5725 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5726 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5727 information.
5728
572915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5730 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5731
573216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5733 Three changes have been made:
5734
5735 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5736 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5737 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5738 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5739 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5740
5741 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5742 been restored.
5743
5744 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5745 the modified behaviour.
5746
5747
5748Exim version 4.31
5749-----------------
5750
5751 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5752 Larry Rosenman.
5753
5754 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5755 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5756
5757 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5758 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5759 try to track down a specific problem.
5760
5761 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5762 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5763 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5764
5765 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5766 warning.
5767
5768 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5769 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5770 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5771 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5772 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5773 some earlier ones do not.
5774
5775 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5776
5777 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5778 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5779 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5780 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5781 address literals are enabled, of course).
5782
5783 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5784
578510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5786 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5787 by a command such as
5788
5789 exim -f "" ...
5790
5791 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5792
579311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5794
579512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5796 remained set. It is now erased.
5797
579813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5799 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5800
580114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5802 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5803 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5804 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5805 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5806 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5807 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5808 appropriate error code.
5809
581015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5811 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5812 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5813 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5814 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5815 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5816
581716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5818 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5819 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5820
582117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5822 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5823 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5824 terminate the header.
5825
582618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5827 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5828 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5829
583019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5831 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5832 (4.30/29). In particular:
5833
5834 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5835 imposed.
5836
5837 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5838 to write a maildirsize file.
5839
5840 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5841 the transport, the new value overrides.
5842
5843 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5844 count.
5845
584620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5847 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5848 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5849 space or a tab.
5850
585121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5852 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5853 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5854 the fallback hosts.
5855
585622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5857 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5858 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5859
586023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5861 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5862 using a union.
5863
586424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5865 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5866 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5867
586825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5869
587026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5871
587227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5873
587428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5875 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5876 become corrupted.
5877
587829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5879 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5880 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5881 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5882 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5883 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5884 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5885 too great.
5886
588730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5888 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5889 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5890 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5891 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5892 incorrectly.
5893
589431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5895 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5896 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5897 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5898 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5899 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5900 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5901 cached value only when the same options are set.
5902
590332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5904
590533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5906 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5907 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5908 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5909 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5910
591134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5912 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5913 it is clearly obsolete.
5914
591535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5916 transport.
5917
591836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5919 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5920 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5921 times.
5922
592337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5924 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5925 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5926 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5927 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5928
592938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5930 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5931 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5932 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5933
593439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5935
5936 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5937
5938 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5939 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5940 2^31.
5941
594240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5943 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5944 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5945 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5946 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5947 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5948 $localpart_data.
5949
595041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5951 with the -f command-line option.
5952
595342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5954 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5955 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5956 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5957 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5958 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5959
596043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5961 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5962 line.
5963
596444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5965 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5966 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5967 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5968 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5969 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5970 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5971 buffer is too small.
5972
597345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5974 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5975
597646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5977 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5978 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5979 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5980 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5981 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5982 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5983 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5984 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5985
598647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5987 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5988 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5989
599048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5991 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5992 ACL").
5993
599449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5995 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5996 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5997 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5998 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5999
600050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6001 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6002 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6003 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6004 is set.
6005
600651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6007
600852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6009
601053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6011 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6012
601354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6014 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6015 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6016
601755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6018 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6019 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6020 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6021 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6022
602356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6024 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6025 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6026 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6027 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6028 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6029 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6030
603157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6032 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6033 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6034 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6035 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6036 the test of how many are available.
6037
603858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6039 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6040 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6041 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6042 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6043 new message is started.
6044
604559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6046 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6047
604860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6049 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6050
605161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6052 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6053 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6054 is no long logged.
6055
605662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6057 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6058 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6059 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6060 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6061 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6062 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6063
606463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6065 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6066 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6067 interpreted as octal.
6068
606964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6070 setting.
6071
607265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6073 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6074 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6075 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6076 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6077 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6078
607966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6080 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6081 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6082 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6083
6084 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6085 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6086 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6087 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6088
6089 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6090 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6091 is a bug fix.
6092
6093 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6094 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6095
609667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6097
609868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6099 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6100 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6101 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6102
610369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6104 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6105 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6106 supplied", which is not helpful.
6107
610870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6109 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6110 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6111
611271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6113 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6114 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6115 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6116 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6117 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6118 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6119 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6120
612172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6122 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6123 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6124 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6125 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6126
612773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6128 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6129 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6130 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6131 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6132 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6133
613474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6135 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6136 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6137
613875. Added write_rejectlog option.
6139
614076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6141 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6142 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6143 variables.
6144
614577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6146
614778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6148 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6149 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6150 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6151 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6152 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6153 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6154 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6155
615679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6157 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6158 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6159 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6160 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6161
616280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6163 Haardt.
6164
616581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6166 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6167 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6168 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6169 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6170 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6171 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6172 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6173 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6174
6175
6176Exim version 4.30
6177-----------------
6178
6179 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6180 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6181 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6182
6183 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6184 fixed.
6185
6186 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6187 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6188 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6189
6190 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6191 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6192 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6193 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6194 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6195 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6196
6197 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6198 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6199 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6200 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6201 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6202 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6203 the Exim test suite.
6204
6205 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6206 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6207 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6208 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6209
6210 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6211 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6212 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6213 specify it in this variable.
6214
6215 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6216 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6217 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6218 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6219
6220 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6221 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6222 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6223 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6224
6225 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6226 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6227 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6228 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6229 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6230
6231 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6232
623310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6234 they are logged.
6235
623611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6237 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6238 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6239 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6240 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6241
624212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6243 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6244
624513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6246 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6247 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6248 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6249 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6250
625114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6252 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6253
625415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6255 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6256 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6257
625816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6259 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6260
626117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6262 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6263
626418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6265 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6266 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6267
626819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6269 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6270
627120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6272 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6273 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6274 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6275
627621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6277
627822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6279 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6280 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6281 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6282
628323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6284
628524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6286 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6287
628825. Added .include_if_exists.
6289
629026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6291 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6292 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6293 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6294 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6295 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6296
629727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6298
629928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6300 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6301 this.
6302
630329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6304
630530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6306 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6307
6308 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6309 550 Sender verify failed
6310
6311 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6312 the final line of the response.
6313
631431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6315 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6316 all other user lookups.
6317
631832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6319 delivery time.
6320
632133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6322 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6323 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6324 result into an int without checking.
6325
632634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6327 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6328 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6329
633035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6331 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6332 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6333 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6334
633536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6336 correctly.
6337
633837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6339 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6340
634138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6342 to the empty sender.
6343
634439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6345 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6346 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6347 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6348 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6349 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6350 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6351 panic log.
6352
635340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6354 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6355 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6356 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6357 used.
6358
635941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6360 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6361
636242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6363 timestamps.
6364
636543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6366 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6367
636844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6369
637045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6371 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6372 logs.
6373
637446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6375 as soon as it is encountered.
6376
637747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6378
637948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6380 rewritten to "<>".
6381
638249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6383 recognizes a tab character.
6384
638550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6386 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6387 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6388 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6389
639051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6391
639252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6393 crash.
6394
639553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6396
639754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6398
639955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6400 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6401 2822.
6402
640356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6404 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6405 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6406 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6407 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6408
640957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6410 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6411
641258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6413 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6414 list (.included file names were always shown).
6415
641659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6417 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6418 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6419 root at that time.
6420
642160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6422 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6423
642461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6425
642662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6427
642863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6429
643064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6431 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6432 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6433 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6434 failures to open the logs.
6435
643665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6437 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6438 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6439 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6440 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6441 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6442 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6443
6444
6445Exim version 4.24
6446-----------------
6447
6448 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6449 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6450 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6451 change 4.23/1.
6452
6453 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6454 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6455 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6456
6457 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6458 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6459 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6460
6461 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6462 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6463 causing some misleading effects.
6464
6465 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6466 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6467 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6468
6469 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6470 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6471 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6472 queue-runner function directly.
6473
6474
6475Exim version 4.23
6476-----------------
6477
6478 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6479 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6480
6481 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6482 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6483 was always written to the default place.
6484
6485 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6486 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6487 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6488
6489 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6490
6491 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6492
6493 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6494 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6495 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6496
6497 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6498 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6499 must start.
6500
6501 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6502 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6503 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6504
6505 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6506 command line option is disabled.
6507
6508 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6509 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6510
6511 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6512
6513 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6514
6515 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6516 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6517
651810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6519
652011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6521 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6522 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6523 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6524 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6525 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6526
652712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6528 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6529 timeout.
6530
653113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6532 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6533
653414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6535 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6536
653715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6538 received was valid base64.
6539
654016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6541 name of the variable that was being set.
6542
654317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6544
654518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6546 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6547 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6548 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6549 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6550 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6551
655219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6553
655420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6555 nor realm was specified.
6556
655721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6558 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6559 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6560 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6561
656222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6563 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6564 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6565
656623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6567 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6568 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6569
657024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6571 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6572 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6573 some systems use these upper case variants.
6574
657525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6576 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6577 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6578 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6579
658026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6581
658227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6583 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6584
658528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6586 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6587 expansion variable.
6588
658929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6590
659130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6592 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6593 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6594 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6595
659631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6597 using it.
6598
659932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6600 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6601 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6602
660333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6604 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6605
660634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6607 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6608 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6609 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6610
661135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6612 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6613 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6614
661536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6616
661737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6618 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6619 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6620 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6621 aborted.
6622
662338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6624 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6625 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6626
662739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6628
662940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6630 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6631
663241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6633 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6634
663542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6636 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6637 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6638 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6639 when emails are that large.
6640
6641
6642
6643Exim version 4.22
6644-----------------
6645
6646 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6647 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6648
6649 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6650 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6651 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6652
6653 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6654 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6655 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6656
6657 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6658 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6659 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6660 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6661 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6662
6663 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6664 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6665 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6666 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6667 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6668 ever.
6669
6670 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6671 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6672 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6673 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6674 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6675 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6676 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6677 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6678 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6679 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6680 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6681 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6682 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6683 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6684
6685 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6686 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6687 parameterised it.
6688
6689 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6690 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6691 error should be diagnosed.
6692
6693 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6694 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6695 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6696 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6697 appeared instead of "NULL".
6698
669910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6700 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6701 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6702 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6703 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6704 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6705 proceeds).
6706
6707 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6708 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6709 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6710
6711
6712Exim version 4.21
6713-----------------
6714
6715 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6716 or receiver verification errors.
6717
6718 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6719 name.
6720
6721 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6722 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6723 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6724 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6725
6726 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6727 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6728 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6729 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6730 shouldn't happen again.
6731
6732 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6733 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6734 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6735
6736 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6737 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6738
6739 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6740
6741 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6742 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6743
6744 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6745 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6746 RFC.
6747
674810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6749 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6750 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6751
675211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6753 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6754 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6755 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6756
675712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6758 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6759 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6760 to define what should happen).
6761
676213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6763 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6764 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6765
676614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6767
676815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6769
677016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6771 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6772
4c04137d 677317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6774 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6775 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6776 structure in all cases.
6777
6778 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6779 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6780 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6781 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6782
678318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6784 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6785 domain name.
6786
678719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6788 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6789
679020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6791 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6792
679321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6794 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6795 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6796
679722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6798 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6799 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6800
680123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6802 the book and for uniformity.
6803
680424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6805
680625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6807 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6808 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6809 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6810 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6811 non-existent command as the problem.
6812
681326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6814 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6815 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6816
681727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6818
681928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6820 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6821 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6822
682329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6824 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6825 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6826 timestamps using strftime().
6827
682830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6829 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6830
683132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6832 transport-time rewrites.
6833
683433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6835 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6836 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6837 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6838
683934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6840 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6841
684235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6843 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6844 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6845 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6846 comma and a space.
6847
684836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6849 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6850 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6851 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6852 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6853 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6854 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6855
685637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6857 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6858 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6859 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6860 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6861
686238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6863 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6864 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6865 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6866 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6867 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6868 remaining text gets split now.
6869
687039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6871 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6872 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6873 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6874
687540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6876 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6877 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6878 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6879 $return_path.
6880
688141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6882 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6883 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6884 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6885 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6886 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6887 passed through if needed.
6888
688942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6890 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6891 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6892 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6893 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6894 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6895
689643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6897 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6898 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6899 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6900 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6901
690244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6903 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6904 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6905 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6906 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6907
690845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6909 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6910 noticed.
6911
691246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6913 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6914 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6915 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6916 mayhem of various kinds.
6917
691847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6919 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6920 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6921 the right test for positive values.
6922
692348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6924 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6925 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6926 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6927 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6928 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6929 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6930 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6931 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6932 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6933 envelope.
6934
693549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6936 module.
6937
693850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6939 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6940 forbidding it.
6941
694251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6943 the existing equality matching.
6944
694552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6946 dealing with inode numbers.
6947
694853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6949 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6950 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6951
695254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6953 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6954 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6955 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6956 local_scan().
6957
695855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6959 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6960 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6961 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6962 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6963 relay addresses has also been removed.
6964
696556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6966
696757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6968 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6969 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6970
697158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6972 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6973 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6974 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6975 processing applies to CR:
6976
6977 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6978 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6979
6980 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6981 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6982 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6983 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6984
698559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6986 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6987 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6988
698960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6990 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6991 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6992 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6993 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6994 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6995 arisen.
6996
699761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6998 program routers.
6999
700062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7001 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7002 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7003 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7004 adds:
7005
7006 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7007
7008 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7009
7010 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7011
701263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7013 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7014 not considered personal.
7015
701664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7017
701865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7019
702066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7021
702267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7023 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7024 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7025 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7026 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7027 header lines, and spool format errors.
7028
702968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7030 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7031 for more flexibility.
7032
703369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7034 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7035 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7036
703770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7038 Sabourenkov.
7039
704071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7041 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7042 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7043 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7044 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7045 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7046 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7047 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7048 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7049
705072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7051 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7052 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7053 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7054 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7055 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7056 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7057
705873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7059 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7060 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7061
706274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7063 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7064 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7065 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7066 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7067 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7068 instead of killing the process with assert().
7069
707075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7071 than Unicode encoding.
7072
707376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7074 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7075 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7076 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7077
707877. Added process_log_path.
7079
708078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7081 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7082
708379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7084 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7085
708680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7087 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7088 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7089
709081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7091 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7092 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7093 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7094 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7095 were applied:
7096
7097 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7098 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7099 as invalid.
7100
710182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7102 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7103 they will be used during message reception.
7104
7105
7106Exim version 4.20
7107-----------------
7108
7109The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7110
7111****