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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
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66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer excaped by the
67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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72JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
73 expanded.
74
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75JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
76
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77JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
78 it.
79
01a4a5c5 80JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 81 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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82 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
83 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
84
cb1d7830 85JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 86 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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87 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 89JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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90 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
91 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
92 TLS connections
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94JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
95 sites use this now.
96
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97JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
98 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
99 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
100 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
101 have a dsn_lasthop option.
102
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103JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
104 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 105 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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107JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
108
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109JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
110 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
111
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112JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
113 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
114
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115JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
116 /defer_ok option.
117
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118JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
119 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
120
fd4d8871 121JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 122 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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123 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
124
125JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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126 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
127 specify a port-range.
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129JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
130 timeout value per server.
131
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132JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
133 now have the list separator specified.
134
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135JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
136 option values.
137
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139 under OpenSSL.
140
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141JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
142
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143JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
144 rather than the verbs used.
145
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146JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
147 from 255 to 1024 chars.
148
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149JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
150
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151HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
152 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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154JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
155 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
156
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157HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
158 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
159
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160JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
161
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162JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
163
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164JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
165 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
166 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
167 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
168
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169JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
170
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171JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
172 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
173
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174JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
175 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
176
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177JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
178
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179JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
180
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181JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
182
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183JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
184 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
185
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186JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
187 added for tls authenticator.
188
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192TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
193 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
194 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
195 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
196 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
197 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
198 the script parsing/test process like normal.
199
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200TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
201 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
202 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
203 function when detected.
204
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205JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
206 cause callback expansion.
207
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208TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
209 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
210 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
211 instead of bool when processing it.
212
0f06b4f2 213JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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214 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
215
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216JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
217
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218JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
219
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220TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
221
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222TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
223 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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225JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
226 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
227 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
228 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
229 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
230 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
231
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232JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
233 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
234 exceeded it.
235
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236JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
237 version 3.3.6 or later.
238
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239JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
240 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
241 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 242 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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243 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
244 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
245 option is defined.
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247TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
248 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
249
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250JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
251 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
252 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
253 matches.
254
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255JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
256 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
257 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
258
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259JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
260 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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261
262JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
263 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
264 syntax errors.
265
3394b36a 266JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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268JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
269 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
270
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271TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
272 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
273 tarball.
274
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275JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
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277JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
278 Bug 1561.
279
280JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
281 output list separator was used.
282
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286TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
287 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
288 return.
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290JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
291 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
292
293JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
294
295TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 296 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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301
302TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
303
304 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
305 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
306 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
307 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
308 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
309 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
310
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311TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
312 utilities have not been installed.
313
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314JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
315 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
316
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317TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
318 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
319
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320TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
321 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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322 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
323 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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325JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
326
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327TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
328 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
329
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330PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
331 not dns_use_dnssec.
332
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333JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
334
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335TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
336 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
337 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
338
8ddef691 339TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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340 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
341 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
342 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
343 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 344 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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346JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
347
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348JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
349 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
350
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351JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
352 failed delivery.
353
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354JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
355
511a6c14 356JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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358JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
359 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
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361JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
362 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
363
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364TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
365
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366JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
367
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368JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
369 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
370
371 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
372 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
373 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
374
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375TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
376 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
377 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
378 analysis.
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380JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
381
8c51eead 382JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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383 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
384 lookup).
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386TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
387 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
388 Schlichting.
35aba663 389
fd3b6a4a 390JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 391 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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393TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
394 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
395
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396JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
397
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398TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
399 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
400 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
401
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402JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
403 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
404
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405JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
406 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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407 hosts_request_ocsp.
408
ed3bba5f 409JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 410 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 411 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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413JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
414
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415TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
416 Christian Aistleitner.
417
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418JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
419
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420TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
421 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
422
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423JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
424 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
425
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426JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
427 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
428
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429TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
430 support and error reporting did not work properly.
431
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432TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
433 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
434
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435TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
436 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
437 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
438
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439JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
440
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441PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
442 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
443 Jasper Wallace.
444
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445JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
446
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447TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
448 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
449 CVE-2014-2972
450
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455PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
456
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457PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
458 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
459
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460PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
461 by GnuTLS.
462
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463PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
464 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
465 routines.
466
13363eba 467PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
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66645890 469PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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470 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
471 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
472 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
473 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 475PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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476 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
477 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
478 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 479 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 480 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 482TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 483
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484TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
485
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486TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
487 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
488
ae0e32ee 489TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 490 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 491 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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492
493TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 494
e2658fff
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495TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
496
83712b39
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497TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
498 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
499
976b7e9f
JH
500JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
501
be4a1376
JH
502JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
503
ec4b68e5
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504PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
505
d7148a07
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506NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
507 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 508
585121e2 509JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 510
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511PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
512 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
513 function.
a5f239e4 514
13d08c90
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515PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
516 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
517
bef3ea7f
JH
518JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
519 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
520 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 521
846726c5
JH
522JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
523
3a796370
JH
524JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
525
ea722490 526JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
527 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
528
b1b05573
JH
529JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
530 Bugzilla 884.
531
362145b5
JH
532JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
533 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
534
3c0a92dc
JH
535JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
536 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
537
6d7c6175
PP
538PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
539 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 540 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 541
6f123593
JH
542JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
543 authenticators.
544
c8e2fc1e
JH
545JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
546 for control.
547
005ac57f
PP
548PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
549
3f1df0e3
PP
550PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
551 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
552 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
553 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
554
67bd1ab3
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555TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
556
557 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
558 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
559 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
560 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
561 the retry rules.
562
563 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
564 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
565 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
566
567 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
568 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
569 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
570 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
571
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572 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
573 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
574 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
575 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
576 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
577 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
578 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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579
580 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
581 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
582
326cdc37
TF
583TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
584
585 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
586
587 Resent-From: f
588
589 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
590 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
591 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
592 username as equal to the username.
593
594 This change corrects that bug.
595
f62514b3
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596GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
597 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
598 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
599
eb505532
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600TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
601
14c7b357
PP
602PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
603 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
604 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
605 NULL dereference and crash.
606
94eaf700
PP
607JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
608
6f5a440a
PP
609PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
610 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
611 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
612
514ee161
SC
613SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
614
fd98a5c6
JH
615JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
616 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
617 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
618 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
619 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
620 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
621 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
622 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
623 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
624 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
625 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
626
035c7f1e
PP
627PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
628 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
629
ff284120
PP
630PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
631 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
632 Bugzilla 880.
633
26e72755
PP
634PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
635 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
636 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
637 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
638 an empty string is now equivalent.
639
0fbd9bff
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640PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
641 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
642 not performing validation itself.
643
700d22f3
PP
644PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
645 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
646
fcc8e047
JH
647JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
648 Bugzilla 321, 823.
649
7142daca
PP
650TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
651
8c020188
PP
652PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
653 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
654 other false fix of the same issue.
655 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
656 Bugzilla 1363.
657
d13cdd30
PP
658PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
659 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
660
e2fbf4a2
PP
661PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
662 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
663 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
664
f4c1088b
PP
665PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
666 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
667 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
668
c5c2182f
PP
669TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
670
73431ca9
JH
671JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
672
2d07a215
TL
673TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
674 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
675
a30a8861
TL
676TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
677 Alexander Miroch.
678
33382dd9
TL
679TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
680 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
681 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
682 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
683 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 684
046172e6
TL
685TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
686 the src/util/ subdirectory.
687
581d7bee 688TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 689 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
690 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
691
692TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
693 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
694 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
695 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
696
237b2cf2
TL
697TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
698
9fc5a352
TL
699TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
700 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
701 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 702
b10e4ec2
TL
703TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
704
e2cebd74
TL
705TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
706 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
707 interaction.
708
709TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
710 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
711
2519e60d
TL
712TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
713 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
714
e78e6ecf 715
4263f395
PP
716Exim version 4.80.1
717-------------------
718
719PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
720 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 721 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 722
ea722490 723
b1770b6e 724Exim version 4.80
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725-----------------
726
727PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
728 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
729 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
730
23c7e742
NM
731NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
732
b322aac8
NM
733NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
734 improved.
735
4a891427
NM
736NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
737
c1e794ba 738PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 739
97753960
PP
740PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
741
742PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
743 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
744
df6303fa
PP
745PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
746 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
747
7e6a8985
PP
748PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
749 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
750
f1e05cc7 751PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
752 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
753 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 754
4c287009
PP
755PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
756
b98bb9ac
PP
757PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
758 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
759
4a6a987a
PP
760PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
761
c45dd180 762PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 763
7db8d074
PP
764PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
765 non-compliant senders.
766 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
767
eae0036b 768NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
769 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
770 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
771
dec5017e
PP
772PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
773 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
774 in spool file corruption.
775
c80c5570
PP
776PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
777 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
778 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
779 "Got SSL error 2".
780
076b11e2
PP
781TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
782 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
783 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
784
5407bfff
JH
785JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
786 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
787
9e45c72b
PP
788JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
789
e74376d8
PP
790PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
791 diagnostics.
792 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
793
da3ad30d
PP
794PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
795 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
796 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
797
7be682ca
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798PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
799 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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800 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
801 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 802
ef840681
PP
803PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
804 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
805
5bfb4cdf
PP
806PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
807 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
808 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
809 resolver implementation change.
810
c6e95d22
PP
811PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
812 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
813
9cbad13b
PP
814PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
815
9ee44efb
PP
816PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
817
6a6084f8
PP
818PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
819 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
820
12dd53c7
PP
821PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
822 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
823
9e45c72b 824JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
825 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
826
17c76198
PP
827PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
828 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
829 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
830 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 831 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 832
53947857 833PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 834
eae0036b 835PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
836 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
837 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 838
9e45c72b 839JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 840
7390e768
PP
841PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
842 read-only, out of scope).
843 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
844
08488c86
PP
845PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
846 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
847 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
848 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
849
6475bd82
PP
850PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
851
81f91683
PP
852PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
853 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
854 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
855 real issues in debug logging.
856
5779e6aa
PP
857PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
858 assignment on my part. Fixed.
859
3375e053
PP
860PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
861 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
862 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
863
864PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
865 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
866 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
867 problems.
3375e053 868
9d26b8c0
PP
869PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
870 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
871
57eb9e91 872PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
873 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
874 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
875 needs to override this, it can.
876
16880d1a
PP
877PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
878 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
879 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
880
a799883d
PP
881PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
882 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
883 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
884 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
885
3ecab157 886PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 887
0599f9cf 888
867fcbf5
PP
889Exim version 4.77
890-----------------
891
892PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
893 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
894
f1a29782
TF
895TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
896
ab42bd23
TK
897TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
898 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 899
0ca0cf52
TF
900TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
901 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
902
921b12ca
TF
903TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
904 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
905 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
906
907 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
908 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
909 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
910 not safe for signals.
911
912 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
913 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
914 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
915 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
916 exiwhat.
917
c99ce5c9
TF
918TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
919
920 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
921 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
922 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
923 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
924 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
925
926 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
927 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
928 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
929 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
930 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
931 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
932
933 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
934 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
935 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
936 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
937
938 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
939 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
940 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
941 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
942
943 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
944 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
945 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
946 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
947 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
948 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
949 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
950 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
951 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
952
953 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
954 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
955 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
956 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
957
958 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
959 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
960 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
961 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
962 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
963 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
964 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
965 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
966 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
967 details in the main documentation.
968
3634fc25
TF
969TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
970
792e8a19
TF
971TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
972
5901f0ab
TF
973TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
974 repository when doing development or release builds.
975
7f2a2a43
PP
976PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
977 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 978
061b7ebd
PP
979PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
980 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
981 Bugzilla 97.
982
e12f8c32
PP
983PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
984
9e949f00 985PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
986 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
987
988PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
989 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 990
555ae6af 991PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
992 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
993
994PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
995 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 996
6f7fe114
PP
997PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
998 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
999
c566dd90
PP
1000PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1001 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1002 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1003 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1004
d6cc7c78 1005PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1006 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1007 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1008
0d0e4455
PP
1009PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1010
3399bb60 1011PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1012
1013PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1014 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1015
0ca0cf52 1016
10906672
PP
1017Exim version 4.76
1018-----------------
1019
1020PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1021
754a0503
PP
1022PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1023 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1024
c0c7b2da
PP
1025PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1026
e97d1f08
PP
1027PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1028
084c1d8c
PP
1029PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1030 Bugzilla 1098.
1031
4e7ee012
PP
1032PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1033 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1034
c8d52a00
PP
1035TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1036 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1037
54e7ce4a
PP
1038PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1039 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1040
5ee6f336
PP
1041PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1042 Bugzilla 1104.
1043
c8d52a00 1044TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1045 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1046
1047TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1048 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1049 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1050 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1051
1052PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1053 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1054
10906672 1055
aa097c4c
NM
1056Exim version 4.75
1057-----------------
1058
4c9ef03a 1059NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1060 Bugzilla 1073
1061
7f3d9eff
TF
1062TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1063 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1064 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1065
159f52d2
TF
1066TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1067 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1068
0cc9542a
PP
1069PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1070 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1071 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1072
f7274286
PP
1073PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1074 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1075
7b797365
PP
1076PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1077 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1078
caacae52
NM
1079NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1080 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1081
09dcaba9
NM
1082NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1083 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1084
bc19a55b
PP
1085PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1086 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1087
bd4c9759
NM
1088NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1089 Fixes bug 943.
1090
b72aab72
PP
1091PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1092 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1093
2fe76745
PP
1094PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1095 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1096
76aa570c
PP
1097PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1098 SQL string expansion failure details.
1099 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1100
f1e5fef5
PP
1101PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1102 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1103
4d805ee9
PP
1104PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1105 extern declarations in function scope.
1106 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1107
cd59ab18
PP
1108PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1109 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1110 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1111 a kernel bug).
1112
332f5cf3
PP
1113PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1114 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1115
29cfeb94
PP
1116PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1117 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1118
660242ad
PP
1119PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1120 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1121
bc4bc4c5
PP
1122PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1123 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1124
2e64baa9
NM
1125NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1126 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1127 Dennis Davis.
1128
bddd7526
PP
1129PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1130
6bac1a9a
PP
1131PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1132
552193f0
NM
1133NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1134 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1135
1b587e48
TF
1136TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1137 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1138
aa097c4c 1139
8c07b69f
TF
1140Exim version 4.74
1141-----------------
1142
1143TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1144 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1145
c0ea85ab
TF
1146TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1147 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1148
0761d44e
TF
1149TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1150
0a349494
PP
1151DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1152 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1153 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1154
1155PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1156 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1157 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1158
fea24b2e
PP
1159PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1160 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1161 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1162 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1163
6545de78
PP
1164PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1165 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1166 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1167 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1168
1670ef10
PP
1169PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1170 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1171 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1172 arbitrary files.
1173
c0886197
PP
1174PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1175 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1176
b7487bce
PP
1177PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1178 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1179 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1180 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1181 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1182
8c07b69f 1183
97fd1e48 1184Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1185-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1186
1187PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1188 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1189 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1190
6901c596
PP
1191PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1192 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1193
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1194JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1195
77bb000f
PP
1196PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1197
a29e5231
PP
1198PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1199
ec5a0394 1200PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1201
55c75993
PP
1202PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1203
453a6645 1204PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1205 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1206 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1207 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1208
8544e77a
PP
1209PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1210 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1211 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1212 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1213 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1214
83e029d5
PP
1215PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1216
ed7f7860
PP
1217PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1218
7d9f747b
PP
1219PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1220
4b2241d2
PP
1221PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1222
10385c15
PP
1223PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1224
dbc4b90d
PP
1225PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1226
532be449
PP
1227PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1228
6a8de854 1229PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1230 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1231 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1232
5dc43717
JJ
1233JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1234
1235JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1236 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1237
3346ab01
PP
1238PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1239 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1240
491fab4c
PP
1241PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1242 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1243 Notification from John Horne.
1244
13eb9497
PP
1245PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1246 compatible.
1247
1248PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1249 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1250 it normally works.
1251
7f36d675
DW
1252DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1253 access.
1254
c1d94452
DW
1255DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1256 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1257 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1258
e2f5dc15
DW
1259DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1260 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1261 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1262 configuration file.
1263
cd25e41d
DW
1264DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1265 option (effectively making it always true).
1266
261dc43e
DW
1267DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1268 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1269
fa32850b
DW
1270DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1271 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1272
79d4bc3d
PP
1273PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1274 run-time user, instead of root.
1275
43236f35 1276PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1277 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1278
fb08281f
DW
1279DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1280 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1281 arguments.
3346ab01 1282
74935b98
DW
1283DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1284 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1285 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1286
90b6341f
DW
1287DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1288
57730b52
ML
1289NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1290
66581d1e 1291
465e92cf
JJ
1292Exim version 4.72
1293-----------------
1294
453a6645
PP
1295JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1296 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1297 typos
465e92cf 1298
453a6645
PP
1299JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1300 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1301 (Finput)
edae0343 1302
9bd3e22c
NM
1303NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1304 Patch from Alain Williams
1305
bb576ff7
NM
1306NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1307
5a1a5845
NM
1308NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1309 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1310
981a9fad
NM
1311NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1312 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1313
7fc497ee
NM
1314NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1315
1a41defa
JJ
1316JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1317
a466095c 1318NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1319 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1320
94a6bd0b
NM
1321TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1322
1323TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1324
1325MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1326 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1327 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1328
c1b141a8
NM
1329NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1330 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1331
b26eacf1 1332NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1333 Patch by Simon Arlott
1334
179c5980 1335PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1336 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1337
9bd3e22c 1338
7c6d71af
NM
1339Exim version 4.71
1340-----------------
1341
7d9f747b 1342TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1343
f013fb92
NM
1344NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1345
0eb8eedd
NM
1346NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1347
663ee6d9
NM
1348NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1349
177ebd9b
NM
1350NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1351
7c6d71af 1352
210f147e
NM
1353Exim version 4.70
1354-----------------
1355
cdd3bb85 1356TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1357 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1358
1359TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1360 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1361 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1362
1363TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1364 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1365 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1366
1367TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1368 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1369
210f147e
NM
1370NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1371 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1372 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1373 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1374
deafd5b3
NM
1375NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1376 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1377 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1378
089793a4
TF
1379TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1380
5f16ca82
TF
1381TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1382
dae9d94e 1383NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1384 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1385
7d9f747b 1386NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1387
06864c44
TF
1388TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1389 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1390 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1391 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1392
65a7d8c3 1393NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1394 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1395
23510047 1396TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1397
7d9f747b 1398NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1399
7d8eec3a 1400NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1401 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1402
89dec7b6
TF
1403TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1404 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1405
a99de90c
TF
1406TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1407 that they are available at delivery time.
1408
e2803e40
TF
1409TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1410
7199e1ee
TF
1411TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1412 incoming_port log selectors.
1413
e276e04b
TF
1414TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1415 setting expands to an empty string.
1416
ce552449 1417NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1418 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1419
e765a0f1 1420NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1421 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1422
4f054c63 1423NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1424 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1425
7d9f747b
PP
1426NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1427 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1428
7d9f747b
PP
1429NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1430 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1431
b52bc06e 1432NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1433 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1434
447de4b0
NM
1435NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1436
4c69d561 1437NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1438 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1439
d5c39246 1440NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1441 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1442
0b23848a
TK
1443TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1444
8f3414a1 1445NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1446 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1447
fb6f955d
NM
1448NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1449
1450NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1451
7d9f747b
PP
1452NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1453 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1454
7d9f747b
PP
1455NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1456 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1457
7d9f747b
PP
1458NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1459 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1460
7d9f747b
PP
1461NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1462 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1463
7d9f747b
PP
1464NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1465 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1466
7d9f747b
PP
1467NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1468 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1469
7d9f747b
PP
1470NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1471 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1472
7d9f747b 1473NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1474 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1475
7d9f747b 1476NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1477
7d9f747b
PP
1478NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1479 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1480
7d9f747b 1481NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1482
7d9f747b 1483NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1484
7d9f747b 1485NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1486
7d9f747b 1487NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1488
17792b53 1489NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1490 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1491
7d9f747b
PP
1492NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1493 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1494
91576cec 1495NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1496 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1497
7d9f747b
PP
1498NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1499 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1500
7d9f747b 1501NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1502
7d9f747b 1503NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1504
7d9f747b 1505NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1506
7d9f747b 1507NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1508
deafd5b3 1509
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NM
1510Exim version 4.69
1511-----------------
1512
4b3504d0
TK
1513TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1514 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1515 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1516
1517 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1518 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1519 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1520 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1521 build errors in sieve.c.
1522
81ea09ca
NM
1523NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1524 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1525 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1526
f13cddcb
SC
1527SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1528
7d9f747b 1529NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1530
7d9f747b 1531NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1532
7d9f747b 1533NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1534
1535
eb4c0de6
PH
1536Exim version 4.68
1537-----------------
1538
1539PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1540
6a3bceb1
PH
1541PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1542 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1543 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1544 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1545 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1546 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1547 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1548 for iplsearch lookups.
1549
1550 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1551 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1552 previously such lookups could never work.
1553
1554 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1555 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1556 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1557
2e30fa9d
TK
1558TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1559 version.
1560
0806a9c5
MH
1561MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1562 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1563 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1564 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1565 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1566 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1567
ae276964
TK
1568TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1569 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1570
0f2cbd1b
MH
1571MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1572 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1573 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1574 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1575 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1576 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1577
2b85bce7
PH
1578PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1579 local_scan API.
1580
93655c46
PH
1581PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1582
6c512171
PH
1583PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1584 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1585 encrypted.
1586
1587PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1588 by clients under certain conditions.
1589
aa6dc513
PH
1590PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1591 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1592
a96603a0
PH
1593PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1594
8f240103
PH
1595PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1596 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1597
1598PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1599
d677b2f2
PH
1600PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1601
d52120f2
PH
1602PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1603
64f2600a
PH
1604PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1605 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1606
8669f003
PH
1607PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1608
a4dc33a8
PH
1609PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1610 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1611
d6a60c0f
PH
1612PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1613
8f128379
PH
1614PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1615
8932dffe
PH
1616PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1617 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1618 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1619 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1620
ddea74fa 1621PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1622 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1623 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1624
ddea74fa 1625PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1626 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1627
ddea74fa
PH
1628PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1629
ce9f225c
PH
1630PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1631
19897d52
PH
1632PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1633
bc64a74d
PH
1634PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1635 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1636 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1637
eb4c0de6 1638
b4ed4da0
PH
1639Exim version 4.67
1640-----------------
1641
22ad45c9
MH
1642MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1643 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1644 Jan Srzednicki.
1645
b4ed4da0
PH
1646PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1647 issue a MAIL command.
1648
431b7361
PH
1649PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1650
1651 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1652
1653 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1654 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1655 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1656 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1657 item. This has been fixed.
1658
1659PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1660 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1661
83da1223
PH
1662PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1663 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1664
54fc8428
PH
1665PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1666 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1667 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1668
34c5e8dd
SC
1669SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1670
bbe15da8
PH
1671PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1672 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1673 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1674 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1675 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1676
0e8a9471
MH
1677MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1678 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1679 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1680
f0872424
PH
1681PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1682 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1683 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1684 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1685
b01dd148
PH
1686PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1687
6bf342e1
PH
1688PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1689
273f34d0
PH
1690PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1691 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1692 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1693 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1694 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1695
cf8b11a5
PH
1696PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1697
41c7c167
PH
1698PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1699 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1700 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1701 values).
1702
9c57cbc0
PH
1703PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1704
f3f065bb
PH
1705PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1706
047bdd8c
PH
1707PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1708
0ce9abe6
PH
1709PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1710
0e22dfd1
PH
1711PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1712
4c590bd1
PH
1713PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1714 no_callout_flush is set.
1715
09945f1e
PH
1716PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1717 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1718 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1719 fixed.
1720
c51b8e75
PH
1721PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1722
e28326d8
PH
1723PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1724 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1725 other ACL rejections are.
1726
75b1493f
PH
1727PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1728 with slight modification.
1729
7c5214ec
PH
1730PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1731 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1732
4311097e
PH
1733PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1734 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1735 connection.
1736
29f89cad
PH
1737PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1738 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1739
5e687460
SC
1740SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1741
c3611384
PH
1742PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1743 expansion side effects.
1744
5a11a7b4
PH
1745PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1746 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1747 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1748 be the same.
1749
0e20aff9
MH
1750MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1751 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1752 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1753
ca86f471
PH
1754PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1755 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1756 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1757 were accidentally chopped off.
1758
a14e5636
PH
1759PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1760 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1761 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1762 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1763 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1764 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1765 pipelining has not been advertised.
1766
ec95d1a6
PH
1767PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1768
42855d71
PH
1769PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1770 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1771 This has been fixed.
1772
57c2c631
PH
1773PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1774 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1775 reported on Solaris.
1776
58c01c94
PH
1777PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1778 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1779 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1780 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1781 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1782 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1783 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1784
dee5a20a
PH
1785PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1786 cpus.
1787
d2ee6114
PH
1788PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1789
b2d5182b
PH
1790PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1791
79749a79
PH
1792PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1793 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1794 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1795 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1796 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1797 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1798
c456d9bb
PH
1799PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1800 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1801 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1802 host_all_ignored option.
1803
cd9868ec
PH
1804PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1805 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1806 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1807 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1808 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1809 is what is supposed to happen).
1810
ebeaf996
PH
1811PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1812 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1813 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1814 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1815 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1816 uses the Exim user.
1817
2679d413
PH
1818PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1819 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1820 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1821 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1822 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1823 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1824 users.
1825
84024b72
PH
1826PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1827
8005d38e
SC
1828SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1829 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1830 (Jez Hancock).
1831 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1832 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1833
3298c6c6
SC
1834SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1835
a43a27c5
PH
1836PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1837
58eb016e 1838PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1839 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1840 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1841 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1842 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1843 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1844 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1845 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1846 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1847 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1848 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1849
b43a74ea
PH
1850PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1851 advertised in response to EHLO.
1852
b4ed4da0 1853
5dd1517f
PH
1854Exim version 4.66
1855-----------------
1856
1857PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1858 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1859
1860 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1861 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1862
1863 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1864 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1865 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1866
1867 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1868 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1869 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1870 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1871 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1872
1873
93cfa765
TK
1874Exim version 4.65
1875-----------------
1876
1877TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1878 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1879 versions. (#438)
1880
d6066548
MH
1881MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1882 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1883 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1884
4362ff0d
PH
1885PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1886 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1887 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1888 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1889 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1890 rather than extend the field.
1891
93cfa765 1892
944e9e9c
TF
1893Exim version 4.64
1894-----------------
aa41d2de 1895
21d74bd9
TK
1896TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1897 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1898 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1899 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1900 these files.
1901
1902TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1903 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1904 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1905
1906TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1907 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1908 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1909
1910TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1911 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1912 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1913 in the field name.
1914
2b1c6e3a
PH
1915PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1916 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1917 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1918 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1919 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1920 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1921 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1922 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1923 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1924 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1925 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1926
1f872c80
PH
1927PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1928 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1929
1930PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1931 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1932 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1933 ignores EPIPE as well.
1934
d203e649
PH
1935PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1936 (quoted-printable decoding).
1937
cc2ed8f7 1938PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1939 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1940
ddfcd446
PH
1941PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1942
d45b1de8
PH
1943PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1944
1945PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1946
38a0a95f 1947PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1948 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1949
a2405d83
JJ
1950JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1951 in 4.64-PH/09.
1952
1953JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1954 miscellaneous code fixes
1955
6ea85e9a
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1956PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1957 rejections.
1958
26da7e20
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1959PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1960 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1961 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1962 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1963 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1964 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1965 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1966 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1967
14aa5a05 1968PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1969 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
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1970 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1971 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1972 function.
1973 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1974 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1975 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1976 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1977 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1978 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1979 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1980 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1981 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1982
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PH
1983PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1984 decoding.
1985
e6f6568e
PH
1986PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1987 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1988 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1989 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1990 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1991 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1992 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1993 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1994
d6f6e0dc
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1995PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1996 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1997 list.
1998
322050c2
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1999PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2000 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2001 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2002 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2003 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2004 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2005 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2006 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2007 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2008 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2009 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2010 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2011 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2012
08955dd3
PH
2013PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2014 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2015 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2016 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2017 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2018 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2019 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2020
1eccaa59
PH
2021PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2022 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2023 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2024 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2025 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2026 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2027 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2028 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2029 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2030 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2031
602e59e5
PH
2032PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2033 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2034 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2035 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2036 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2037
411ef850
PH
2038PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2039 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2040 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2041 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2042 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2043 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2044 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2045
7befa435
PH
2046PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2047 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2048 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2049 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2050 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2051 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2052 been verified.
2053
48da4259 2054PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2055 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2056 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2057 and authorization.)
2058
48da4259
PH
2059PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2060 if any retry times were supplied.
2061
d1d5595c
PH
2062PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2063 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2064 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2065
0ef732d9
PH
2066PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2067
328895cc
PH
2068PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2069
fd700877
PH
2070PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2071 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2072 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2073 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2074 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2075 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2076
8dce1a6f
PH
2077PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2078 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2079
17af4a17
PH
2080PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2081 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2082 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2083
2084PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2085 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2086 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2087 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2088 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2089 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2090 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2091 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2092 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2093
2094 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2095 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2096 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2097 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2098 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2099 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2100 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2101 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2102 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2103
2104 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2105 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2106 hammering the server.
2107
c1114884
PH
2108PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2109 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2110
7a0743eb
PH
2111PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2112
0d85fa3f
PH
2113PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2114 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2115 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2116
1bf43b78
PH
2117PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2118 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2119 one case where this was not true.
2120
520de300
PH
2121PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2122 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2123 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2124 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2125 fails.
2126
48c7f9e2
PH
2127PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2128 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2129 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2130 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2131 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2132 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2133 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2134 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2135 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2136 smtp transport.
2137
99ea1c86
PH
2138PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2139 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2140 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2141 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2142
a2042e78
PH
2143PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2144 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2145
4fbcfc2e
PH
2146PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2147 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2148 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2149
aa41d2de
PH
2150PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2151
af561417
PH
2152PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2153
3cc66b45
PH
2154PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2155
194cc0e4
PH
2156PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2157 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2158 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2159 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2160
a401ddaa
PH
2161PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2162 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2163
4e88a19f
PH
2164PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2165 be meaningful with "accept".
2166
d7d7b289
SC
2167SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2168 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2169
2170SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2171 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2172 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2173
2174SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2175 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2176 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2177 there is data to show.
2178 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2179
2180SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2181 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2182 as well as the number of messages.
2183
2184SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2185 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2186 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2187
2188SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2189 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2190 have a flag are now skipped.
2191
2192SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2193 Added the -emptyok flag.
2194
2195SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2196 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2197
0ea2a468
JJ
2198JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2199 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2200 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2201
2202JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2203 match 4.64-PH/13
2204
2205JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2206 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2207
2208JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2209
2210JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2211 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2212
8a10f5a4
PH
2213PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2214
30e18802
PH
2215PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2216 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2217 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2218 contravention of the specifications.
2219
55728a4f
PH
2220PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2221 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2222 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2223
d7837193
PH
2224PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2225 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2226 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2227
87054a31
PH
2228PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2229
ea2c01d2
MH
2230MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2231 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2232 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2233 some point in the past.
2234
e4fa6968
PH
2235PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2236 transport during callout processing was broken.
2237
56f5d9bd
PH
2238PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2239 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2240
922e1c28
PH
2241PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2242 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2243
21eb6e72
PH
2244PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2245 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2246
a0540757
PH
2247PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2248
944e9e9c 2249
478be7b0
SC
2250Exim version 4.63
2251-----------------
2252
2253SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2254 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2255
2256SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2257 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2258 there is data to show.
2259 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2260
2261SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2262 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2263
2b965a65
TF
2264TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2265 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2266
45b91596
PH
2267TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2268 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2269
c59f5781
TF
2270TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2271 submissions from trusted users.
2272
90fc3069
TF
2273TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2274 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2275
6083aca0
TF
2276TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2277 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2278 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2279 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2280 there is now a framework to start from.
2281
765b530f
PH
2282PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2283 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2284 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2285
4e167a8c
PH
2286PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2287
4608d683
PH
2288PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2289
b8dc3e4a
PH
2290PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2291
5418e93b
PH
2292PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2293 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2294 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2295
b4a9bda2
PH
2296PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2297 libradius.
2298
45b91596
PH
2299PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2300 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2301 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2302
5547e2c5
PH
2303PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2304 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2305 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2306 its arguments.
2307
dbcef0ea
PH
2308PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2309 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2310 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2311 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2312 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2313
25257489
PH
2314PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2315 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2316
c816d124
PH
2317PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2318
a9ccd69a
PH
2319PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2320 operations in malware.c.
2321
75fa1910
PH
2322PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2323 signatures.
2324
a7d7aa58
PH
2325PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2326 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2327 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2328 all.
2329
42119b09
PH
2330PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2331 statements to "add_header".
2332
41609df5
PH
2333PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2334 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2335
a5bd321b
PH
2336PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2337 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2338 latter.
2339
e85a7ad5 2340PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2341 so that it is now:
2342
e85a7ad5
PH
2343 ${if or { \
2344 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2345 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2346 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2347 }{no}{yes}}
2348
e85a7ad5
PH
2349 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2350 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2351
d8fe1c03
PH
2352PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2353 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2354
16282d2b
PH
2355PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2356 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2357 any possible encoding problems.
2358
35d40a98
PH
2359PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2360 but not after initializing Perl.
2361
034d99ab
PH
2362PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2363 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2364 apparently, which is not desirable.
2365
6ec97b1b
PH
2366PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2367 queries.
2368
e22ca4ac
JJ
2369JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2370 --not options
2371
2372JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2373
33d73e3b
PH
2374PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2375 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2376 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2377 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2378
9ecb03f3
PH
2379PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2380 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2381 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2382
084efe8d
PH
2383PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2384 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2385 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2386 0.12.
2387
366fc9f0
PH
2388PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2389 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2390 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2391 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2392 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2393
c59f5781 2394
c887c79e
TF
2395Exim version 4.62
2396-----------------
2397
2398TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2399 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2400
1cce3af8
PH
2401PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2402 patch).
2403
afb3eaaf
PH
2404PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2405 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2406 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2407 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2408 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2409 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2410 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2411 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2412 451 error is used.
2413
e173618b
PH
2414PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2415
dd16e114
PH
2416PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2417 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2418 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2419
f7fd3850
PH
2420PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2421 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2422 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2423 odd errors.
2424
d87df92c
PH
2425PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2426 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2427
7e9f683d
PH
2428PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2429 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2430 option (which defaults to 0600).
2431
bfad5236
PH
2432PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2433
01c490df
PH
2434PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2435 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2436 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2437 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2438 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2439 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2440 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2441
d6629cdc
PH
2442PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2443
1cce3af8 2444
214e2000
PH
2445Exim version 4.61
2446-----------------
2447
2448PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2449 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2450 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2451 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2452 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2453 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2454 addresses as local.
2455
f9daeae0
PH
2456PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2457 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2458
7e66e54d
PH
2459PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2460
c8ea1597
PH
2461PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2462 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2463 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2464 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2465 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2466 grumble.
2467
911f6fde
PH
2468PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2469 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2470
47ca6d6c
PH
2471PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2472 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2473 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2474 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2475 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2476
ed0e9820
PH
2477PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2478 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2479 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2480 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2481
eff37e47
PH
2482PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2483 be the same on different OS.
2484
1921d2ea
PH
2485PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2486 testing.
2487
b3f69ca8
JJ
2488JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2489 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2490
2491JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2492 in 4.61-PH/06
2493
424a1c63
PH
2494PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2495 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2496 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2497 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2498 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2499 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2500 bounce message.
2501
7a100415
PH
2502PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2503 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2504 when Exim was called.
2505
19b9dc85
PH
2506PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2507 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2508
309bd837
PH
2509PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2510 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2511 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2512 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2513
59e82a2a
PH
2514PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2515 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2516 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2517 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2518 changes:
2519
2520 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2521 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2522 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2523
2524 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2525 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2526 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2527
9edc04ce
PH
2528PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2529 feature).
2530
1349e1e5
PH
2531PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2532 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2533 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2534 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2535 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2536 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2537 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2538 values from the SRV records were lost.
2539
ea49d0e1
PH
2540PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2541 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2542 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2543
064a94c9
PH
2544PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2545 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2546 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2547
727071f8
PH
2548PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2549 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2550 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2551 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2552 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2553 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2554 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2555 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2556 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2557 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2558
f78eb7c6
PH
2559PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2560 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2561 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2562
21c28500
PH
2563PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2564 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2565
2566PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2567 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2568 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2569 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2570 is given.
2571
1688f43b
PH
2572PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2573 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2574 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2575
2576PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2577 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2578 PH/23 above applies.
2579
9675b384
PH
2580PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2581 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2582 (for which there is an explicit test).
2583
6a3f1455
PH
2584PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2585
dac79d3e
PH
2586PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2587 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2588 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2589 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2590 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2591
5977a0b3
PH
2592PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2593 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2594 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2595 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2596
c91535f3
PH
2597PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2598 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2599 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2600
0d46a8c8
PH
2601PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2602
278c6e6c
PH
2603PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2604
2cbb4081
PH
2605PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2606 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2607 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2608
3eef829e
PH
2609PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2610 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2611 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2612 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2613 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2614
1ab95fa6
PH
2615PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2616 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2617 the message gets confusing).
2618
230205fc
PH
2619PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2620 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2621 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2622 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2623
75e0e026
PH
2624PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2625 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2626 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2627 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2628 same order.
2629
2630PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2631 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2632 the different processes.
2633
145396a6
PH
2634PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2635
3cd34f13
PH
2636PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2637
11121d3d
JJ
2638JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2639 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2640
2641JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2642 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2643
2644JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2645 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2646 messages matching specified criteria.
2647
8def5aaf
PH
2648PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2649
929ba01c
PH
2650PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2651 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2652
2632889e
PH
2653PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2654 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2655 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2656 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2657 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2658 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2659 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2660 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2661 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2662 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2663
944a9c55
PH
2664PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2665 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2666 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2667
4a23603b
PH
2668PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2669
4730f942
PH
2670PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2671 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2672 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2673 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2674 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2675 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2676 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2677 the variable.
2678
30dba1e6
PH
2679PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2680 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2681
382afc6b
PH
2682PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2683
a86229cf
PH
2684PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2685
50c99ba6
PH
2686PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2687
d35e429d
PH
2688PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2689 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2690 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2691 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2692 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2693 size of the count of files.
2694
f90d018c
PH
2695PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2696
75def545
PH
2697PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2698 used in LMTP mode:
2699
2700 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2701 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2702 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2703 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2704
2705 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2706 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2707 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2708
2709PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2710 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2711 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2712 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2713 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2714
c46782ef
PH
2715PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2716 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2717
71fafd95
PH
2718PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2719 will now be deprecated.
2720
2c5db4fd
PH
2721PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2722
9cf6b11a
JJ
2723JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2724 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2725 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2726
2727JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2728 with very large, slow to parse queues
2729
2730JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2731
2732JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2733
898d150f
PH
2734PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2735 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2736 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2737 SMTP output lines.
2738
46218253
PH
2739PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2740 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2741 Sieve code now uses this.
2742
e97957bc
PH
2743PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2744 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2745
81e509d7
PH
2746PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2747 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2748
3d240ff7
PH
2749PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2750
b37c4101
PH
2751PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2752 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2753 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2754 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2755 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2756
79378e0f
PH
2757PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2758 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2759 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2760 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2761
e49c7bb4
PH
2762PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2763
d114ec46
PH
2764PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2765
f3d7df6c
PH
2766PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2767 is preferred over IPv4.
2768
715ab376
PH
2769PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2770 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2771 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2772 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2773 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2774 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2775 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2776
6b31b150
PH
2777PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2778 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2779 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2780
2781PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2782
d515a917
PH
2783PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2784 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2785 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2786 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2787 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2788 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2789 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2790 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2791 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2792 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2793 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2794
9b8fadde
PH
2795PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2796 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2797 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2798
214e2000 2799
5de37277
PH
2800Exim version 4.60
2801-----------------
2802
cc38ddbf
PH
2803PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2804
2805 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2806 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2807
2808 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2809 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2810 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2811
72fdd6ae
PH
2812PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2813
2814 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2815 not a single digit.
2816
2817 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2818 string.
2819
2820 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2821 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2822 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2823 silly things.
2824
2825 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2826 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2827
2828 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2829 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2830
cb741023
PH
2831PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2832 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2833 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2834
f174f16e
PH
2835PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2836 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2837
c25242d7
PH
2838PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2839 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2840
2841 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2842
2843 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2844 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2845 this:
2846
2847 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2848
82c19f95
PH
2849PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2850 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2851 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2852 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2853 identical. For example:
2854
2855 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2856
2857 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2858 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2859 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2860
d7ffbc12
PH
2861PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2862 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2863 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2864 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2865
9f526266
PH
2866PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2867 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2868 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2869 message.
2870
87fcc8b9
PH
2871PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2872
2873 o fixes some comments
2874 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2875 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2876 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2877 and documents the missing references header update
2878
2879 and most important:
2880
2881 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2882 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2883 result)
2884
456682f5
PH
2885PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2886 Electronic Mail") by including:
2887
2888 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2889
2890 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2891 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2892 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2893 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2894 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2895
2896 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2897
2898 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2899
2900 The auto-replied keyword:
2901
2902 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2903 message by an automatic process,
2904
2905 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2906
2907 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2908 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2909
2910 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2911 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2912 other messages.
2913
3e46c1aa
PH
2914PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2915 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2916
49826d12
PH
2917PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2918
eba0c039
PH
2919PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2920 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2921 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2922
a0d6ba8a
PH
2923PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2924 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2925 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2926
f0917727
PH
2927PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2928 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2929 and treats the condition as false.
2930
096fee00
PH
2931PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2932
024bd3c2
PH
2933PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2934 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2935 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2936 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2937 not changing the active code.
2938
2939 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2940 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2941
2942 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2943 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2944
df199fec
PH
2945PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2946 (Bugzilla #53).
2947
d27f1df3
PH
2948PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2949 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2950 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2951 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2952 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2953 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2954 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2955 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2956 the text comparison.
2957
96776534
PH
2958PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2959 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2960 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2961 The same fix has been applied.
2962
5de37277 2963
9a799bc0
PH
2964Exim version 4.54
2965-----------------
2966
2967PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2968 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2969 It now does.
2970
99a4b039
PH
2971PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2972 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2973
2974PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2975
4b233853
PH
2976PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2977 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2978 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2979 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2980 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2981
8857ccfd
PH
2982TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2983 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2984 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2985 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2986 or /domain=).
2987
433a2980
PH
2988PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2989 testing suite.
2990
3e46c1aa 2991
9a799bc0 2992
e3a311ba
TK
2993Exim version 4.53
2994-----------------
2995
2996TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2997 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2998
13b685f9
PH
2999PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3000
395ff96d
PH
3001PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3002
5b68f6e4
PH
3003PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3004 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3005 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3006
1ab52c69
PH
3007PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3008 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3009 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3010
b07e6aa3
PH
3011PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3012 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3013 operating systems.
3014
254e032f
PH
3015PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3016 ${stat: expansion item.
3017
3af76a81
PH
3018PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3019 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3020
2548ba04
PH
3021PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3022 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3023 file for comments.
3024
b6c6011d
PH
3025PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3026
cf39cf57
PH
3027PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3028 setting.
3029
f1513293
PH
3030PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3031 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3032
727549a4
PH
3033TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3034
af46795e
PH
3035PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3036 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3037 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3038 the end of the subprocess.
3039
d7b47fd0
PH
3040PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3041 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3042 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3043 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3044 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3045
ee744174
JJ
3046JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3047
b582ab87
PH
3048TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3049
41a13e0a
PH
3050PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3051 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3052
f625cc5a
PH
3053PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3054
3055PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3056
21f7af35
PH
3057PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3058 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3059 HP-UX compiler.
3060
31480e42
PH
3061PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3062
2d280592
PH
3063PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3064 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3065 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3066
7cd1141b
PH
3067PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3068 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3069
3070PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3071 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3072
750af86e
PH
3073PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3074 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3075
3076 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3077 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3078
3079 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3080 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3081 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3082 contributed by a Radius user.
3083
3084PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3085 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3086
4304270b
TK
3087TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3088 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3089
750af86e
PH
3090PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3091 available.
3092
64ffc24f
PH
3093PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3094 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3095 received.
3096
5dd9625b
PH
3097PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3098 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3099 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3100 header lines when this was not necessary.
3101
5591031b
PH
3102PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3103
ba18e66a
PH
3104PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3105 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3106 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3107 exists".
3108
9cec981f
PH
3109PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3110 -bV or -d is used.
3111
aa2b5c79
PH
3112PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3113 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3114 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3115 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3116
48a53b7f
PH
3117PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3118
1c59d63b
PH
3119PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3120
671012da
TK
3121TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3122
1509d3a8
PH
3123PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3124
3125PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3126 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3127 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3128 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3129 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3130 settings.
3131
3132PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3133
2fe1a124
PH
3134PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3135 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3136 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3137 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3138 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3139 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3140 which is clearly wrong.
3141
8800895a
PH
3142PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3143
ccfdb010
PH
3144PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3145 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3146 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3147 subsequently added.
3148
1130bfb0
PH
3149PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3150 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3151
ebcb507f
PH
3152PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3153
c35e155c
PH
3154PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3155 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3156
95d1f782
PH
3157PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3158 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3159
fd6de02e
PH
3160PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3161 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3162
58de37c5
PH
3163PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3164 recipients, not senders.
3165
261cf466
TF
3166TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3167 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3168
3ee512ff
PH
3169PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3170
e08c430f
PH
3171PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3172
bef5a11f
PH
3173PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3174 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3175 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3176 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3177
7546de58
TF
3178TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3179
e5d5a95f
TF
3180TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3181 clock is set back in time.
3182
2e88a017
TF
3183TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3184 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3185
a5f65aa4
TF
3186TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3187 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3188
e7726cbf
PH
3189PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3190 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3191 (see PH/47 above).
3192
a7fdad5b
TF
3193TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3194 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3195 header rewrites.
3196
6af56900
PH
3197PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3198 type ("H").
3199
0925ede6
PH
3200PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3201
66afa403
TF
3202TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3203 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3204 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3205
0154e85a
TF
3206TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3207 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3208 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3209 helo verification defer as a failure.
3210
16f12c76
PH
3211PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3212 actual error message.
3213
bbe902f0 3214
e5a9dba6
PH
3215Exim version 4.52
3216-----------------
3217
3218TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3219
22c3b60b
PH
3220PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3221 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3222 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3223 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3224
06a9b4b5
PH
3225TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3226
c1ac6996
PH
3227PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3228 can still be requested.
3229
9c7a242c
PH
3230PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3231 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3232 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3233 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3234
87ba3f5f
PH
3235TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3236 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3237 circumstances, but probably never did.
3238
3239PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3240 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3241 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3242 in the header line.
3243
29aba418
TF
3244TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3245
fe0dab11
TF
3246TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3247 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3248
11d337a4
TK
3249TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3250
3251TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3252
415c8f3b
PH
3253PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3254 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3255 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3256 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3257 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3258 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3259
958541e9
PH
3260PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3261 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3262 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3263 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3264 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3265 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3266
c206415f
TK
3267TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3268 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3269
2a4be8f9
PH
3270PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3271 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3272
1cba11c5
SC
3273SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3274 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3275
3276SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3277
3278SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3279
3280SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3281
3282SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3283
3284SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3285
3286SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3287
1005d00e
TK
3288TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3289
3290TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3291 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3292 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3293
3294TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3295 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3296 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3297 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3298
9b4768fa
PH
3299PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3300 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3301 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3302
3303PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3304 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3305 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3306 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3307
0d7eb84a
PH
3308PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3309 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3310 to be made).
3311
3312PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3313 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3314 should work with maildirs and everything.
3315
40727bee
TK
3316TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3317 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3318
554d2369
TF
3319TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3320 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3321
1f922db1
PH
3322PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3323 function for BDB 4.3.
3324
ef213c3b
PH
3325PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3326
8ac170f3
PH
3327PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3328 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3329 involved.
3330
b1c749bb
PH
3331PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3332 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3333 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3334 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3335 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3336 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3337
4aac9b49
PH
3338PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3339 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3340 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3341 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3342 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3343 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3344 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3345 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3346
294520c8
TK
3347TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3348 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3349 details.
3350
5bd022fe
PH
3351PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3352 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3353
90e9ce59
PH
3354PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3355 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3356 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3357 test. It is now used for both.
3358
5ea81592
PH
3359PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3360 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3361 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3362 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3363 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3364 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3365
c6c2dc1d
PH
3366PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3367 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3368 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3369 string_vformat().
3370
fffffe4c
PH
3371PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3372 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3373 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3374
9a26b6b2
PH
3375PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3376 experimental DomainKeys support:
3377
3378 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3379 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3380 the control was given.
3381
3382 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3383
4aee0225
PH
3384PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3385
32d668a5
PH
3386PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3387
8187c3f3
PH
3388PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3389 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3390 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3391 db.h files).
3392
ff790e47 3393PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3394 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3395 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3396 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3397 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3398 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3399 course.
ff790e47 3400
5417f6d1
PH
3401PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3402 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3403 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3404 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3405 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3406 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3407
59cf8544
PH
3408PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3409 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3410 do -d+all out of habit.
3411
e7ad8a65
PH
3412PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3413 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3414 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3415
ade42478
PH
3416PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3417 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3418 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3419 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3420 record types that Exim uses.
3421
182ad5cf
PH
3422PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3423 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3424 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3425 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3426 non-existent file that was broken.
3427
b0d9fc80
TK
3428TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3429 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3430
3431TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3432 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3433 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3434
3435TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3436
47c7a64a
PH
3437PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3438 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3439 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3440 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3441 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3442 same time.
3443
a388bce4
SC
3444SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3445 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3446 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3447 at a slight CPU cost.
3448
3449SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3450 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3451
3452SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3453 by Marc Sherman.
3454
0793e4ed
SC
3455SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3456
c58b88df
PH
3457PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3458 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3459
e7ad8a65 3460
7982096b
PH
3461Exim version 4.51
3462-----------------
3463
1a46a8c5
PH
3464TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3465 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3466
2f079f46 3467TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3468
3469TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3470
3471PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3472 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3473
3474PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3475 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3476 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3477 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3478 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3479 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3480 file.
3481
3482PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3483 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3484 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3485 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3486 these two options.
3487
3488PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3489 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3490 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3491 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3492 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3493 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3494 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3495 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3496
3497PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3498 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3499
3500PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3501 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3502 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3503 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3504 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3505 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3506
3507PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3508 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3509 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3510 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3511
3512PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3513 Finch).
3514
3515PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3516 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3517
49c2d5ea
PH
3518PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3519 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3520 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3521 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3522 message.
49c2d5ea 3523
bf759a8b
PH
3524PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3525
83364d30
PH
3526PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3527 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3528
7999bbd7
PH
3529PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3530 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3531 to what was transported.)
3532
7dbf77c9
PH
3533TF/01 Added $received_time.
3534
74e0617f
PH
3535PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3536 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3537 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3538 spamd_address settings.
3539
2f079f46
PH
3540PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3541 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3542 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3543 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3544 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3545
8c841523
PH
3546PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3547
7766a4f0
PH
3548PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3549 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3550 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3551 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3552 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3553
8b417f2c
PH
3554PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3555 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3556
901f42cb
PH
3557PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3558 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3559 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3560 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3561 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3562 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3563 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3564 for failure.
3565
f9b9210e
PH
3566PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3567 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3568 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3569 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3570 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3571 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3572 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3573 "input=".
3574
54cdb463
PH
3575PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3576
cf00dad6
PH
3577PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3578 driver and ACL definitions.
3579
acb1b346
PH
3580PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3581 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3582
c5ddb310
PH
3583PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3584 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3585 understands it better than I do:
3586
3587 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3588 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3589
3590 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3591 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3592 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3593 => three warnings about OTP not working
3594 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3595
3596 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3597 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3598 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3599 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3600 for each call.)
3601 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3602 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3603
3604 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3605 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3606 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3607
31619da6
PH
3608PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3609 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3610 specified.
3611
bebaf0fc
PH
3612PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3613 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3614 "Linux".
3615
475fe28a
PH
3616PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3617 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3618 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3619
3620 warn !verify = sender
3621 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3622
3623 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3624 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3625
7e8bec7a
PH
3626PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3627
3628 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3629 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3630
3631 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3632 nomenclature these days.)
3633
e4a89c47
PH
3634PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3635 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3636
5ca2a9a1
PH
3637PH/30 In these circumstances:
3638 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3639 . First host does not offer TLS;
3640 . First host accepts first address;
3641 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3642 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3643 . Second host accepts second address.
3644 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3645 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3646 address.
7e8bec7a 3647
c688b954
PH
3648PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3649 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3650 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3651 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3652 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3653
fed77020
PH
3654PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3655 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3656
7fe1560f
PH
3657PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3658 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3659
ebb6e6d5
PH
3660PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3661 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3662 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3663
9c4e8f60
PH
3664PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3665 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3666 overlooked.
3667
3668PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3669
d7174846
PH
3670PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3671 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3672 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3673 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3674 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3675 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3676 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3677
3678 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3679 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3680 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3681 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3682 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3683
3684 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3685 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3686 routed further.
3687
cfe75fc3
PH
3688PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3689 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3690 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3691 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3692 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3693 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3694
be22d70e
PH
3695PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3696
0612b098
PH
3697PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3698 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3699 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3700 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3701 printable escape sequences.
3702
2e0c1448
PH
3703PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3704 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3705 body only.
3706
447d236c
PH
3707PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3708 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3709 are as follows:
3710
3711 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3712 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3713 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3714 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3715 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3716
3717 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3718 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3719 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3720
d20976dc
PH
3721PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3722
f656d135
PH
3723PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3724 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3725 play with."
3726
2e2a30b4
PH
3727PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3728 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3729 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3730 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3731 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3732 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3733 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3734 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3735 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3736 the log output.
3737
9176e9f0
PH
3738PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3739 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3740 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3741 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3742 "make".
3743
7982096b 3744
bbe902f0
PH
3745A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3746----------------------------------------
3747
3748Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3749changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3750needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3751in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3752that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3753release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3754from 4.43.
3755
3756I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
37574.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3758those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3759historical information.
3760
3761
f7b63901 3762Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3763-----------------
3764
5fe762f6
PH
3765 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3766
139059f6 3767 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3768 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3769
7086e875
PH
3770 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3771 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3772 place.
3773
35af9f61
PH
3774 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3775 filter fails to execute.
3776
b668c215
PH
3777 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3778 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3779 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3780 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3781 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3782
a494b1e1
PH
3783 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3784
3785 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3786 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3787 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3788 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3789
c5fcb476
PH
3790 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3791 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3792 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3793 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3794 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3795
69358f02
PH
3796 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3797
5be20824
PH
379810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3799
eb2c0248
PH
380011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3801 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3802 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3803 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3804
2a3eea10
PH
380512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3806 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3807 sender verification.
3808
380913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3810 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3811
23c7ff99
PH
381214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3813
4deaf07d
PH
381415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3815 connection timeout.
3816
926e1192
PH
381716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3818 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3819
650edc6f
PH
382017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3821 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3822
2c7db3f5
PH
382318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3824 information about exactly what failed.
3825
3d235903
PH
382619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3827
7c7ad977
PH
382820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3829 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3830 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3831
981756db
PH
383221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3833 It is now set to "smtps".
3834
d4eb88df
PH
383522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3836 ignore_target_hosts.
3837
383823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3839 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3840 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3841 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3842 "[x.x.x.x]".
3843
7d468ab8
PH
384424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3845 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3846 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3847
384825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3849 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3850 wake it up if nothing else does.
3851
62c0818f
PH
385226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3853 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3854 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3855 end up negative.
3856
26034054
PH
385727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3858 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3859
af66f652
PH
386028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3861
90af77f4
PH
386229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3863 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3864 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3865 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3866 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3867 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3868 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3869 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3870
d8ef3577
PH
387130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3872 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3873 than one IP address.
3874
5cb8cbc6
PH
387531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3876 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3877 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3878 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3879
14702f5b
PH
388032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3881 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3882 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3883 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3884 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3885 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3886
063b1e99
PH
388733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3888 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3889 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3890 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3891
652e1b65
PH
389234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3893 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3894 respected.
3895
6f0c9a4f
PH
389635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3897 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3898 $sender_host_address.
3899
33397d19
PH
390036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3901 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3902 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3903 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3904 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3905 very small.
3906
7bb56e1f
PH
390737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3908
3909 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3910 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3911
ea3bc19b
PH
3912 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3913 just the host names, not the priorities.
3914
3915 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3916 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3917 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3918
ea3bc19b 3919 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3920 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3921
0bcb2a0e
PH
392238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3923 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3924 domain.
3925
2ac0e484
PH
392639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3927
4e1fde53
PH
392840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3929 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3930
de365ded
PH
393141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3932 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3933 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3934
f05da2e8
PH
393542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3936
d6453af2
PH
393743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3938
f7b63901
PH
393944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3940
394145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3942 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3943 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3944 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3945 because the tests only now provoked it.
3946
a444213a
PH
394746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3948 (this can affect the format of dates).
3949
0ec020ea
PH
395047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3951 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3952 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3953 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3954
b1206957
PH
395548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3956
395749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3958 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3959 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3960 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3961
26dd5a95
PH
396250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3963 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3964 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3965
343b2385
PH
396651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3967 autoreply.
3968
1c5466b9
PH
396952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3970 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3971 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3972 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3973 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3974 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3975 is going on).
3976
55ee9ee3
PH
397753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3978 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3979 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3980 the line.
3981
d38f8232
PH
398254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3983 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3984 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3985
3986 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3987 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3988 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3989 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3990 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3991 so I produce this patch..."
3992
3295e65b
PH
3993 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3994 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3995 is not defined.
3996
7102e136
PH
399755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3998 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3999 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4000 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4001 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4002
3ca0ba97
PH
400356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4004
c2bcbe20
PH
400557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4006 long debug lines gets shown.
4007
18ce445d
PH
400858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4009 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4010
1f5b4c3d
PH
401159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4012
4013 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4014 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4015 of $primary_hostname.
4016
b975ba52
PH
401760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4018 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4019 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4020 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4021 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4022 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4023 by change 4.50/55 above.
4024
4025 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4026 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4027 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4028 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4029 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4030 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4031 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4032
403361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4034 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4035 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4036 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4037
17ffcae7
PH
403862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4039 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4040
d95f9fdb
PH
404163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4042 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4043 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4044 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4045 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4046
86b8287f
PH
404764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4048 This has been fixed.
4049
60dc5e56
PH
405065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4051 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4052 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4053 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4054 the caching.)
4055
533244af
PH
405666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4057
a5a28604
PH
405867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4059 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4060 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4061 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4062
7e634d24
PH
406368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4064 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4065
3e11c26b
PH
406669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4067 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4068 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4069
6729cf78
PH
407070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4071 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4072 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4073 message there.
4074
00f00ca5
PH
407571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4076 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4077 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4078
c9bdd01c
PH
407972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4080 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4081 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4082 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4083
d43194df
PH
408473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4085 during host lookups.
4086
fe5b5d0b
PH
408774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4088 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4089
4090 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4091
76a2d7ba
PH
409275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4093 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4094 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4095 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4096 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4097 background.
4098
409976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4100 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4101
04f7d5b9
PH
410277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4103 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4104 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4105
bc60667e
PH
410678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4107
bb6e88ff
PH
410879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4109 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4110 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4111 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4112 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4113 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4114 process earlier.
4115
1e70f85b
PH
411680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4117 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4118 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4119 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4120 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4121
412281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4123 tables).
4124
4e01f9d6
PH
412582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4126
1ee1cef2
PH
412783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4128 "vacation" handling.
4129
6e2b4ccc
PH
413084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4131 OS variants using glibc.
4132
8e669ac1
PH
413385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4134
495ae4b0 4135
bbe902f0
PH
4136----------------------------------------------------
4137See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4138----------------------------------------------------
4139
4140
4141Exim version 4.44
4142-----------------
4143
4144 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4145 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4146 transport
4147
4148 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4149 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4150 place.
4151
4152 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4153 filter fails to execute.
4154
4155 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4156 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4157 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4158 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4159 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4160
4161 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4162 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4163 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4164 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4165
4166 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4167 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4168 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4169 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4170 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4171
4172 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4173
4174 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4175 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4176 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4177 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4178
4179 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4180 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4181 sender verification.
4182
418310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4184 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4185
418611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4187 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4188
418912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4190 ignore_target_hosts.
4191
419213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4193 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4194 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4195 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4196 "[x.x.x.x]".
4197
419814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4199 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4200 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4201
420215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4203 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4204 wake it up if nothing else does.
4205
420616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4207 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4208 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4209 end up negative.
4210
421117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4212 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4213
ea3a6f44 421418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4215
421619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4217 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4218 empty pattern.
4219
422020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4221 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4222 one IP address.
4223
ea3a6f44
NM
422421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4225 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4226 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4227 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4228 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4229 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4230
ea3a6f44
NM
423122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4232 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4233 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4234
423523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4236 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4237 $sender_host_address.
4238
423924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4240
ea3a6f44
NM
424125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4242 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4243 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4244
424526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4246 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4247
ea3a6f44
NM
424827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4249 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4250
ea3a6f44
NM
425128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4252 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4253 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4254 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4255
425629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4257 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4258 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4259
ea3a6f44
NM
426030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4261 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4262 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4263 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4264
ea3a6f44
NM
426531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4266 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4267 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4268
ea3a6f44
NM
426931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4270 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4271
ea3a6f44
NM
427232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4273 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4274 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4275 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4276 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4277 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4278 is going on).
bbe902f0 4279
ea3a6f44
NM
428033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4281 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4282 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4283 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4284 CAN-2005-0021
4285
ea3a6f44
NM
428634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4287 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4288 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4289 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4290 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4291 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4292 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4293
4294 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4295 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4296 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4297 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4298 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4299 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4300 CAN-2005-0021
4301
ea3a6f44
NM
430235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4303 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4304 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4305 CAN-2005-0022
4306
ea3a6f44
NM
430736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4308 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4309 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4310 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4311 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4312
ea3a6f44
NM
431337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4314 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4315 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4316 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4317 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4318
ea3a6f44
NM
431938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4320 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4321 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4322 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4323 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4324
4325
495ae4b0
PH
4326Exim version 4.43
4327-----------------
4328
4329 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4330 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4331 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4332 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4333 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4334 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4335 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4336
4337 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4338 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4339 the delivery.
4340
4341 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4342
4343 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4344
4345 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4346 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4347 to local_scan().
4348
4349 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4350 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4351 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4352 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4353 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4354
4355 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4356 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4357
4358 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4359
4360 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4361
436210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4363 header_sender only.
4364
436511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4366 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4367
436812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4369 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4370 affecting debugging statements).
4371
437213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4373
437414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4375 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4376 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4377 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4378 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4379 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4380 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4381 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4382 after the received time, and all would be well.
4383
438415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4385 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4386 condition in an expansion string.
4387
438816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4389
439017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4391 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4392 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4393 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4394 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4395 job under whatever limits there are.
4396
439718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4398
439919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4400 space).
4401
440220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4403 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4404 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4405 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4406 return path is set.
4407
440821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4409 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4410 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4411 binary data in such strings.
4412
441322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4414
441523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4416 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4417 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4418 failure, which is pointless.
4419
442024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4421
442225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4423
442426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4425 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4426 Sender: header lines.
4427
442827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4429 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4430 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4431
443228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4433 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4434 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4435 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4436 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4437 happens.
4438
443929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4440 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4441 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4442 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4443 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4444
444530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4446 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4447 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4448 1024.
4449
445031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4451 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4452
445332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4454 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4455
445633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4457
445832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4459
446033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4461
446234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4463 syntax error.
4464
446535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4466
446736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4468
446937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4470 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4471 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4472 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4473
447438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4475 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4476
4477
4478Exim version 4.42
4479-----------------
4480
4481 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4482 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4483 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4484 it was not quoted.
4485 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4486 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4487 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4488 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4489 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4490 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4491
4492 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4493 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4494 verification failure".
4495
4496 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4497 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4498 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4499 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4500
4501 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4502 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4503 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4504 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4505 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4506 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4507 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4508 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4509 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4510 treated as a timeout.
4511
4512 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4513 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4514 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4515 not set for Exim filters).
4516
4517 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4518 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4519 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4520
4521 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4522
4523 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4524 try to make them clearer.
4525
4526 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4527 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4528
4529 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4530
4531 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4532
453310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4534 only the Cygwin environment.
4535
453611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4537 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4538 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4539 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4540 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4541
454212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4543 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4544 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4545 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4546 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4547 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4548 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4549
455013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4551 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4552
455314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4554
4555 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4556 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4557 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4558
4559 To: susanne@some.where
4560
4561 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4562 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4563 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4564 of addresses in From: header lines).
4565
4566 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4567 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4568 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4569
4570 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4571 treated as non-personal.
4572
4573 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4574 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4575
457615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4577
457816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4579
458017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4581 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4582 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4583
458418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4585 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4586
458719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4588 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4589 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4590 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4591 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4592 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4593
459420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4595 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4596 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4597 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4598 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4599 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4600 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4601 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4602
4603 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4604
460521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4606 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4607
460822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4609 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4610 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4611
461223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4613 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4614
461524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4616 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4617 rather than long int.
4618
461925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4620
462126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4622
4623
4624Exim version 4.41
4625-----------------
4626
4627 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4628 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4629 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4630 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4631 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4632 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4633
4634
4635Exim version 4.40
4636-----------------
4637
4638 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4639 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4640
4641 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4642 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4643 socklen_t is defined.
4644
4645 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4646 always exist.
4647
4648 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4649 configured.
4650
4651 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4652 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4653 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4654 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4655 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4656
4657 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4658 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4659 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4660 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4661
4662 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4663 of flapping under certain conditions.
4664
4665 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4666 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4667 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4668
4669 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4670
467110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4672
467311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4674 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4675 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4676 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4677
467812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4679 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4680 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4681 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4682 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4683 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4684 preserved with the message after it was received.
4685
468613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4687 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4688 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4689 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4690 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4691 test suite worked just fine.
4692
469314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4694 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4695 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4696
469715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4698 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4699 string.
4700
470116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4702 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4703 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4704 does not fully solve it.
4705
470617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4707 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4708 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4709 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4710 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4711
471218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4713 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4714 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4715
471619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4717 string, for example:
4718
4719 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4720
4721 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4722 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4723 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4724 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4725 the routers could not see them.
4726
472720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4728 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4729
473021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4731 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4732 output).
4733
473422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4735 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4736 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4737 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4738 that needed quoting.
4739
474023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4741 was not being matched caselessly.
4742
474324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4744 backslashes.
4745
474625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4747 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4748 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4749 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4750 when use_sender is false.
4751
475226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4753
475427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4755
475628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4757
475829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4759 the configuration file.
4760
476130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4762 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4763
476431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4765
476632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4767 bytes in the message body.
4768
476933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4770 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4771 delivery.
4772
477334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4774
477535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4776
477736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4778 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4779 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4780 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4781 another IP address.
4782
4783
4784Exim version 4.34
4785-----------------
4786
4787 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4788 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4789
4790 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4791 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4792 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4793 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4794 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4795
4796 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4797 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4798
4799 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4800 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4801 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4802
4803 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4804 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4805 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4806
4807 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4808 for routers.
4809
4810 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4811 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4812 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4813 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4814 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4815 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4816 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4817
4818
4819Exim version 4.33
4820-----------------
4821
4822 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4823 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4824 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4825 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4826 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4827 default (and expected) setting.
4828
4829 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4830 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4831 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4832 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4833
4834 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4835 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4836
4837 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4838 in domain lists.
4839
4840 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4841 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4842 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4843 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4844 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4845 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4846
4847 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4848 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4849 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4850
4851 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4852 part (NOT match_host).
4853
4854 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4855
4856 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4857 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4858 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4859 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4860 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4861 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4862 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4863 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4864 the same named file.
4865
486610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4867 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4868 when Exim is built.
4869
487011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4871 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4872 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4873 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4874 a host name.
4875
487612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4877 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4878 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4879
488013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4881
488214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4883
488415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4885
488616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4887 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4888
488917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4890 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4891 before starting the TLS session.
4892
489318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4894
489519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4896 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4897
489820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4899 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4900 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4901 colon in the middle).
4902
4903
4904Exim version 4.32
4905-----------------
4906
4907 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4908 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4909 multiple configurations are in use.
4910
4911 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4912 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4913 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4914 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4915 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4916 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4917
4918 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4919 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4920
4921 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4922 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4923 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4924
4925 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4926 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4927 occurs.
4928
4929 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4930 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4931
4932 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4933
4934 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4935 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4936
4937 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4938
4939 -prval:sval
4940
4941 is equivalent to
4942
4943 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4944
4945 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4946 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4947 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4948 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4949 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4950
495110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4952 Exim's behaviour:
4953
4954 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4955 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4956 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4957 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4958 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4959 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4960
4961 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4962 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4963 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4964 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4965 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4966 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4967 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4968 string.
4969
4970 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4971 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4972 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4973 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4974 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4975
497611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4977
497812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4979 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4980 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4981
498213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4983
498414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4985 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4986 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4987 information.
4988
498915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4990 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4991
499216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4993 Three changes have been made:
4994
4995 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4996 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4997 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4998 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4999 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5000
5001 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5002 been restored.
5003
5004 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5005 the modified behaviour.
5006
5007
5008Exim version 4.31
5009-----------------
5010
5011 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5012 Larry Rosenman.
5013
5014 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5015 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5016
5017 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5018 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5019 try to track down a specific problem.
5020
5021 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5022 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5023 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5024
5025 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5026 warning.
5027
5028 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5029 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5030 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5031 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5032 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5033 some earlier ones do not.
5034
5035 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5036
5037 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5038 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5039 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5040 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5041 address literals are enabled, of course).
5042
5043 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5044
504510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5046 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5047 by a command such as
5048
5049 exim -f "" ...
5050
5051 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5052
505311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5054
505512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5056 remained set. It is now erased.
5057
505813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5059 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5060
506114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5062 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5063 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5064 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5065 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5066 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5067 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5068 appropriate error code.
5069
507015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5071 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5072 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5073 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5074 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5075 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5076
507716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5078 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5079 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5080
508117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5082 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5083 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5084 terminate the header.
5085
508618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5087 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5088 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5089
509019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5091 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5092 (4.30/29). In particular:
5093
5094 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5095 imposed.
5096
5097 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5098 to write a maildirsize file.
5099
5100 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5101 the transport, the new value overrides.
5102
5103 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5104 count.
5105
510620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5107 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5108 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5109 space or a tab.
5110
511121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5112 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5113 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5114 the fallback hosts.
5115
511622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5117 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5118 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5119
512023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5121 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5122 using a union.
5123
512424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5125 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5126 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5127
512825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5129
513026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5131
513227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5133
513428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5135 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5136 become corrupted.
5137
513829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5139 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5140 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5141 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5142 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5143 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5144 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5145 too great.
5146
514730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5148 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5149 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5150 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5151 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5152 incorrectly.
5153
515431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5155 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5156 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5157 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5158 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5159 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5160 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5161 cached value only when the same options are set.
5162
516332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5164
516533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5166 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5167 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5168 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5169 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5170
517134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5172 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5173 it is clearly obsolete.
5174
517535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5176 transport.
5177
517836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5179 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5180 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5181 times.
5182
518337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5184 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5185 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5186 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5187 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5188
518938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5190 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5191 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5192 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5193
519439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5195
5196 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5197
5198 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5199 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5200 2^31.
5201
520240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5203 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5204 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5205 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5206 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5207 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5208 $localpart_data.
5209
521041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5211 with the -f command-line option.
5212
521342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5214 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5215 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5216 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5217 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5218 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5219
522043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5221 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5222 line.
5223
522444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5225 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5226 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5227 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5228 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5229 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5230 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5231 buffer is too small.
5232
523345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5234 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5235
523646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5237 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5238 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5239 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5240 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5241 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5242 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5243 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5244 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5245
524647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5247 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5248 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5249
525048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5251 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5252 ACL").
5253
525449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5255 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5256 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5257 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5258 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5259
526050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5261 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5262 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5263 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5264 is set.
5265
526651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5267
526852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5269
527053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5271 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5272
527354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5274 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5275 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5276
527755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5278 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5279 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5280 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5281 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5282
528356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5284 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5285 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5286 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5287 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5288 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5289 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5290
529157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5292 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5293 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5294 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5295 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5296 the test of how many are available.
5297
529858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5299 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5300 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5301 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5302 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5303 new message is started.
5304
530559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5306 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5307
530860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5309 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5310
531161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5312 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5313 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5314 is no long logged.
5315
531662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5317 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5318 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5319 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5320 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5321 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5322 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5323
532463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5325 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5326 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5327 interpreted as octal.
5328
532964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5330 setting.
5331
533265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5333 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5334 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5335 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5336 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5337 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5338
533966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5340 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5341 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5342 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5343
5344 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5345 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5346 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5347 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5348
5349 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5350 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5351 is a bug fix.
5352
5353 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5354 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5355
535667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5357
535868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5359 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5360 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5361 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5362
536369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5364 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5365 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5366 supplied", which is not helpful.
5367
536870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5369 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5370 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5371
537271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5373 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5374 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5375 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5376 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5377 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5378 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5379 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5380
538172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5382 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5383 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5384 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5385 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5386
538773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5388 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5389 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5390 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5391 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5392 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5393
539474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5395 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5396 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5397
539875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5399
540076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5401 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5402 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5403 variables.
5404
540577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5406
540778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5408 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5409 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5410 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5411 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5412 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5413 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5414 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5415
541679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5417 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5418 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5419 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5420 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5421
542280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5423 Haardt.
5424
542581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5426 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5427 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5428 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5429 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5430 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5431 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5432 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5433 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5434
5435
5436Exim version 4.30
5437-----------------
5438
5439 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5440 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5441 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5442
5443 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5444 fixed.
5445
5446 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5447 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5448 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5449
5450 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5451 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5452 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5453 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5454 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5455 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5456
5457 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5458 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5459 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5460 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5461 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5462 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5463 the Exim test suite.
5464
5465 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5466 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5467 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5468 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5469
5470 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5471 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5472 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5473 specify it in this variable.
5474
5475 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5476 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5477 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5478 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5479
5480 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5481 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5482 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5483 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5484
5485 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5486 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5487 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5488 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5489 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5490
5491 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5492
549310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5494 they are logged.
5495
549611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5497 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5498 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5499 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5500 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5501
550212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5503 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5504
550513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5506 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5507 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5508 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5509 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5510
551114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5512 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5513
551415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5515 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5516 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5517
551816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5519 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5520
552117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5522 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5523
552418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5525 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5526 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5527
552819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5529 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5530
553120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5532 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5533 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5534 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5535
553621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5537
553822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5539 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5540 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5541 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5542
554323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5544
554524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5546 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5547
554825. Added .include_if_exists.
5549
555026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5551 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5552 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5553 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5554 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5555 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5556
555727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5558
555928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5560 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5561 this.
5562
556329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5564
556530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5566 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5567
5568 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5569 550 Sender verify failed
5570
5571 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5572 the final line of the response.
5573
557431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5575 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5576 all other user lookups.
5577
557832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5579 delivery time.
5580
558133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5582 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5583 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5584 result into an int without checking.
5585
558634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5587 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5588 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5589
559035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5591 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5592 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5593 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5594
559536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5596 correctly.
5597
559837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5599 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5600
560138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5602 to the empty sender.
5603
560439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5605 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5606 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5607 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5608 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5609 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5610 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5611 panic log.
5612
561340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5614 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5615 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5616 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5617 used.
5618
561941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5620 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5621
562242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5623 timestamps.
5624
562543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5626 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5627
562844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5629
563045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5631 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5632 logs.
5633
563446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5635 as soon as it is encountered.
5636
563747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5638
563948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5640 rewritten to "<>".
5641
564249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5643 recognizes a tab character.
5644
564550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5646 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5647 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5648 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5649
565051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5651
565252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5653 crash.
5654
565553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5656
565754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5658
565955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5660 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5661 2822.
5662
566356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5664 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5665 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5666 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5667 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5668
566957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5670 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5671
567258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5673 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5674 list (.included file names were always shown).
5675
567659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5677 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5678 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5679 root at that time.
5680
568160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5682 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5683
568461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5685
568662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5687
568863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5689
569064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5691 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5692 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5693 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5694 failures to open the logs.
5695
569665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5697 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5698 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5699 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5700 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5701 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5702 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5703
5704
5705Exim version 4.24
5706-----------------
5707
5708 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5709 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5710 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5711 change 4.23/1.
5712
5713 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5714 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5715 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5716
5717 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5718 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5719 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5720
5721 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5722 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5723 causing some misleading effects.
5724
5725 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5726 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5727 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5728
5729 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5730 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5731 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5732 queue-runner function directly.
5733
5734
5735Exim version 4.23
5736-----------------
5737
5738 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5739 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5740
5741 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5742 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5743 was always written to the default place.
5744
5745 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5746 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5747 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5748
5749 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5750
5751 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5752
5753 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5754 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5755 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5756
5757 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5758 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5759 must start.
5760
5761 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5762 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5763 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5764
5765 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5766 command line option is disabled.
5767
5768 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5769 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5770
5771 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5772
5773 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5774
5775 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5776 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5777
577810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5779
578011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5781 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5782 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5783 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5784 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5785 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5786
578712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5788 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5789 timeout.
5790
579113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5792 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5793
579414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5795 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5796
579715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5798 received was valid base64.
5799
580016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5801 name of the variable that was being set.
5802
580317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5804
580518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5806 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5807 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5808 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5809 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5810 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5811
581219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5813
581420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5815 nor realm was specified.
5816
581721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5818 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5819 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5820 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5821
582222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5823 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5824 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5825
582623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5827 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5828 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5829
583024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5831 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5832 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5833 some systems use these upper case variants.
5834
583525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5836 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5837 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5838 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5839
584026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5841
584227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5843 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5844
584528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5846 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5847 expansion variable.
5848
584929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5850
585130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5852 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5853 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5854 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5855
585631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5857 using it.
5858
585932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5860 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5861 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5862
586333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5864 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5865
586634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5867 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5868 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5869 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5870
587135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5872 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5873 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5874
587536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5876
587737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5878 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5879 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5880 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5881 aborted.
5882
588338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5884 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5885 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5886
588739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5888
588940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5890 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5891
589241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5893 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5894
589542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5896 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5897 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5898 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5899 when emails are that large.
5900
5901
5902
5903Exim version 4.22
5904-----------------
5905
5906 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5907 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5908
5909 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5910 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5911 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5912
5913 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5914 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5915 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5916
5917 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5918 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5919 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5920 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5921 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5922
5923 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5924 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5925 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5926 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5927 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5928 ever.
5929
5930 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5931 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5932 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5933 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5934 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5935 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5936 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5937 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5938 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5939 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5940 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5941 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5942 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5943 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5944
5945 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5946 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5947 parameterised it.
5948
5949 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5950 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5951 error should be diagnosed.
5952
5953 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5954 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5955 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5956 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5957 appeared instead of "NULL".
5958
595910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5960 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5961 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5962 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5963 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5964 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5965 proceeds).
5966
5967 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5968 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5969 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5970
5971
5972Exim version 4.21
5973-----------------
5974
5975 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5976 or receiver verification errors.
5977
5978 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5979 name.
5980
5981 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5982 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5983 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5984 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5985
5986 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5987 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5988 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5989 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5990 shouldn't happen again.
5991
5992 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5993 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5994 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5995
5996 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5997 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5998
5999 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6000
6001 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6002 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6003
6004 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6005 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6006 RFC.
6007
600810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6009 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6010 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6011
601211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6013 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6014 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6015 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6016
601712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6018 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6019 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6020 to define what should happen).
6021
602213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6023 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6024 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6025
602614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6027
602815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6029
603016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6031 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6032
603317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6034 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6035 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6036 structure in all cases.
6037
6038 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6039 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6040 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6041 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6042
604318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6044 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6045 domain name.
6046
604719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6048 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6049
605020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6051 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6052
605321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6054 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6055 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6056
605722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6058 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6059 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6060
606123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6062 the book and for uniformity.
6063
606424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6065
606625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6067 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6068 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6069 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6070 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6071 non-existent command as the problem.
6072
607326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6074 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6075 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6076
607727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6078
607928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6080 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6081 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6082
608329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6084 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6085 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6086 timestamps using strftime().
6087
608830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6089 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6090
609132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6092 transport-time rewrites.
6093
609433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6095 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6096 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6097 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6098
609934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6100 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6101
610235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6103 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6104 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6105 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6106 comma and a space.
6107
610836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6109 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6110 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6111 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6112 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6113 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6114 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6115
611637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6117 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6118 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6119 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6120 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6121
612238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6123 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6124 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6125 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6126 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6127 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6128 remaining text gets split now.
6129
613039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6131 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6132 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6133 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6134
613540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6136 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6137 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6138 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6139 $return_path.
6140
614141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6142 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6143 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6144 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6145 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6146 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6147 passed through if needed.
6148
614942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6150 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6151 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6152 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6153 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6154 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6155
615643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6157 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6158 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6159 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6160 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6161
616244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6163 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6164 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6165 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6166 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6167
616845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6169 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6170 noticed.
6171
617246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6173 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6174 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6175 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6176 mayhem of various kinds.
6177
617847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6179 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6180 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6181 the right test for positive values.
6182
618348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6184 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6185 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6186 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6187 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6188 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6189 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6190 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6191 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6192 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6193 envelope.
6194
619549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6196 module.
6197
619850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6199 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6200 forbidding it.
6201
620251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6203 the existing equality matching.
6204
620552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6206 dealing with inode numbers.
6207
620853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6209 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6210 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6211
621254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6213 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6214 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6215 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6216 local_scan().
6217
621855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6219 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6220 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6221 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6222 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6223 relay addresses has also been removed.
6224
622556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6226
622757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6228 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6229 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6230
623158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6232 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6233 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6234 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6235 processing applies to CR:
6236
6237 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6238 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6239
6240 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6241 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6242 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6243 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6244
624559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6246 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6247 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6248
624960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6250 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6251 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6252 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6253 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6254 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6255 arisen.
6256
625761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6258 program routers.
6259
626062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6261 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6262 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6263 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6264 adds:
6265
6266 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6267
6268 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6269
6270 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6271
627263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6273 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6274 not considered personal.
6275
627664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6277
627865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6279
628066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6281
628267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6283 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6284 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6285 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6286 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6287 header lines, and spool format errors.
6288
628968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6290 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6291 for more flexibility.
6292
629369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6294 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6295 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6296
629770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6298 Sabourenkov.
6299
630071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6301 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6302 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6303 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6304 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6305 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6306 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6307 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6308 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6309
631072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6311 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6312 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6313 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6314 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6315 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6316 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6317
631873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6319 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6320 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6321
632274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6323 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6324 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6325 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6326 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6327 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6328 instead of killing the process with assert().
6329
633075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6331 than Unicode encoding.
6332
633376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6334 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6335 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6336 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6337
633877. Added process_log_path.
6339
634078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6341 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6342
634379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6344 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6345
634680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6347 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6348 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6349
635081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6351 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6352 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6353 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6354 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6355 were applied:
6356
6357 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6358 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6359 as invalid.
6360
636182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6362 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6363 they will be used during message reception.
6364
6365
6366Exim version 4.20
6367-----------------
6368
6369The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6370
6371****