Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists, this time in routers. Bug 1533
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
37
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38JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
39 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 40 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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42JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
43
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44JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
45 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
46
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47JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
48 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
49
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50JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
51 /defer_ok option.
52
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53JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
54 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
55
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56JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
57 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and backup-only
58 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
59
60JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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61 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
62 specify a port-range.
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64JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
65 timeout value per server.
66
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71TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
72 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
73 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
74 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
75 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
76 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
77 the script parsing/test process like normal.
78
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79TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
80 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
81 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
82 function when detected.
83
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84JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
85 cause callback expansion.
86
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87TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
88 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
89 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
90 instead of bool when processing it.
91
0f06b4f2 92JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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93 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
94
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95JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
96
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97JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
98
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99TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
100
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101TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
102 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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104JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
105 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
106 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
107 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
108 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
109 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
110
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111JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
112 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
113 exceeded it.
114
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115JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
116 version 3.3.6 or later.
117
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118JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
119 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
120 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 121 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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122 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
123 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
124 option is defined.
774ef2d7 125
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126TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
127 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
128
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129JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
130 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
131 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
132 matches.
133
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134JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
135 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
136 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
137
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138JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
139 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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140
141JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
142 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
143 syntax errors.
144
3394b36a 145JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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146
147JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
148 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
149
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150TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
151 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
152 tarball.
153
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154JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
155
156JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
157 Bug 1561.
158
159JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
160 output list separator was used.
161
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165TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
166 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
167 return.
1f0ebb98 168
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169JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
170 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
171
172JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
173
174TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 175 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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180
181TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
182
183 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
184 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
185 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
186 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
187 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
188 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
189
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190TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
191 utilities have not been installed.
192
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193JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
194 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
195
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196TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
197 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
198
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199TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
200 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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201 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
202 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 203
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204JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
205
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206TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
207 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
208
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209PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
210 not dns_use_dnssec.
211
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212JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
213
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214TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
215 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
216 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
217
8ddef691 218TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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219 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
220 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
221 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
222 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 223 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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225JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
226
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227JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
228 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
229
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230JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
231 failed delivery.
232
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233JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
234
511a6c14 235JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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236
237JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
238 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 239
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240JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
241 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
242
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243TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
244
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245JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
246
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247JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
248 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
249
250 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
251 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
252 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
253
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254TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
255 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
256 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
257 analysis.
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259JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
260
8c51eead 261JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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262 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
263 lookup).
8c51eead 264
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265TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
266 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
267 Schlichting.
35aba663 268
fd3b6a4a 269JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 270 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 271
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272TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
273 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
274
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275JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
276
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277TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
278 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
279 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
280
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281JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
282 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
283
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284JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
285 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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286 hosts_request_ocsp.
287
ed3bba5f 288JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 289 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 290 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 291
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292JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
293
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294TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
295 Christian Aistleitner.
296
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297JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
298
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299TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
300 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
301
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302JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
303 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
304
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305JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
306 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
307
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308TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
309 support and error reporting did not work properly.
310
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311TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
312 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
313
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314TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
315 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
316 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
317
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318JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
319
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320PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
321 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
322 Jasper Wallace.
323
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324JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
325
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326TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
327 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
328 CVE-2014-2972
329
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333
334PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
335
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336PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
337 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
338
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339PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
340 by GnuTLS.
341
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342PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
343 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
344 routines.
345
13363eba 346PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 347
66645890 348PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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349 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
350 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
351 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
352 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 353
a3fb9793 354PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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355 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
356 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
357 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 358 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 359 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 360
d27f98fe 361TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 362
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363TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
364
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365TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
366 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
367
ae0e32ee 368TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 369 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 370 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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372TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 373
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374TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
375
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376TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
377 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
378
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379JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
380
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381JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
382
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383PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
384
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385NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
386 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 387
585121e2 388JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 389
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390PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
391 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
392 function.
a5f239e4 393
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394PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
395 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
396
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397JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
398 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
399 "acl = name arg..."
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401JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
402
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403JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
404
ea722490 405JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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406 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
407
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408JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
409 Bugzilla 884.
410
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411JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
412 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
413
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414JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
415 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
416
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417PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
418 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 419 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 420
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421JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
422 authenticators.
423
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424JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
425 for control.
426
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427PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
428
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429PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
430 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
431 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
432 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
433
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434TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
435
436 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
437 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
438 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
439 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
440 the retry rules.
441
442 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
443 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
444 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
445
446 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
447 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
448 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
449 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
450
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451 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
452 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
453 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
454 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
455 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
456 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
457 delivery, as in LMTP.
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458
459 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
460 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
461
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462TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
463
464 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
465
466 Resent-From: f
467
468 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
469 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
470 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
471 username as equal to the username.
472
473 This change corrects that bug.
474
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475GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
476 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
477 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
478
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479TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
480
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481PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
482 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
483 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
484 NULL dereference and crash.
485
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486JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
487
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488PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
489 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
490 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
491
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492SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
493
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494JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
495 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
496 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
497 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
498 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
499 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
500 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
501 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
502 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
503 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
504 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
505
035c7f1e
PP
506PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
507 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
508
ff284120
PP
509PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
510 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
511 Bugzilla 880.
512
26e72755
PP
513PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
514 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
515 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
516 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
517 an empty string is now equivalent.
518
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519PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
520 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
521 not performing validation itself.
522
700d22f3
PP
523PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
524 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
525
fcc8e047
JH
526JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
527 Bugzilla 321, 823.
528
7142daca
PP
529TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
530
8c020188
PP
531PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
532 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
533 other false fix of the same issue.
534 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
535 Bugzilla 1363.
536
d13cdd30
PP
537PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
538 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
539
e2fbf4a2
PP
540PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
541 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
542 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
543
f4c1088b
PP
544PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
545 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
546 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
547
c5c2182f
PP
548TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
549
73431ca9
JH
550JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
551
2d07a215
TL
552TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
553 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
554
a30a8861
TL
555TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
556 Alexander Miroch.
557
33382dd9
TL
558TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
559 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
560 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
561 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
562 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 563
046172e6
TL
564TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
565 the src/util/ subdirectory.
566
581d7bee 567TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 568 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
569 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
570
571TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
572 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
573 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
574 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
575
237b2cf2
TL
576TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
577
9fc5a352
TL
578TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
579 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
580 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 581
b10e4ec2
TL
582TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
583
e2cebd74
TL
584TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
585 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
586 interaction.
587
588TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
589 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
590
2519e60d
TL
591TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
592 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
593
e78e6ecf 594
4263f395
PP
595Exim version 4.80.1
596-------------------
597
598PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
599 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 600 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 601
ea722490 602
b1770b6e 603Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
604-----------------
605
606PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
607 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
608 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
609
23c7e742
NM
610NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
611
b322aac8
NM
612NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
613 improved.
614
4a891427
NM
615NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
616
c1e794ba 617PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 618
97753960
PP
619PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
620
621PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
622 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
623
df6303fa
PP
624PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
625 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
626
7e6a8985
PP
627PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
628 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
629
f1e05cc7 630PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
631 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
632 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 633
4c287009
PP
634PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
635
b98bb9ac
PP
636PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
637 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
638
4a6a987a
PP
639PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
640
c45dd180 641PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 642
7db8d074
PP
643PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
644 non-compliant senders.
645 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
646
eae0036b 647NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
648 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
649 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
650
dec5017e
PP
651PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
652 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
653 in spool file corruption.
654
c80c5570
PP
655PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
656 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
657 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
658 "Got SSL error 2".
659
076b11e2
PP
660TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
661 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
662 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
663
5407bfff
JH
664JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
665 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
666
9e45c72b
PP
667JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
668
e74376d8
PP
669PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
670 diagnostics.
671 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
672
da3ad30d
PP
673PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
674 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
675 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
676
7be682ca
PP
677PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
678 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
679 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
680 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 681
ef840681
PP
682PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
683 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
684
5bfb4cdf
PP
685PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
686 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
687 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
688 resolver implementation change.
689
c6e95d22
PP
690PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
691 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
692
9cbad13b
PP
693PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
694
9ee44efb
PP
695PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
696
6a6084f8
PP
697PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
698 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
699
12dd53c7
PP
700PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
701 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
702
9e45c72b 703JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
704 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
705
17c76198
PP
706PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
707 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
708 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
709 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 710 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 711
53947857 712PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 713
eae0036b 714PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
715 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
716 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 717
9e45c72b 718JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 719
7390e768
PP
720PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
721 read-only, out of scope).
722 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
723
08488c86
PP
724PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
725 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
726 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
727 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
728
6475bd82
PP
729PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
730
81f91683
PP
731PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
732 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
733 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
734 real issues in debug logging.
735
5779e6aa
PP
736PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
737 assignment on my part. Fixed.
738
3375e053
PP
739PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
740 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
741 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
742
743PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
744 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
745 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
746 problems.
3375e053 747
9d26b8c0
PP
748PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
749 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
750
57eb9e91 751PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
752 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
753 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
754 needs to override this, it can.
755
16880d1a
PP
756PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
757 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
758 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
759
a799883d
PP
760PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
761 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
762 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
763 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
764
3ecab157 765PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 766
0599f9cf 767
867fcbf5
PP
768Exim version 4.77
769-----------------
770
771PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
772 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
773
f1a29782
TF
774TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
775
ab42bd23
TK
776TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
777 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 778
0ca0cf52
TF
779TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
780 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
781
921b12ca
TF
782TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
783 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
784 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
785
786 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
787 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
788 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
789 not safe for signals.
790
791 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
792 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
793 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
794 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
795 exiwhat.
796
c99ce5c9
TF
797TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
798
799 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
800 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
801 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
802 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
803 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
804
805 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
806 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
807 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
808 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
809 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
810 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
811
812 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
813 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
814 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
815 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
816
817 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
818 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
819 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
820 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
821
822 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
823 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
824 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
825 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
826 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
827 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
828 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
829 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
830 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
831
832 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
833 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
834 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
835 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
836
837 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
838 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
839 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
840 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
841 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
842 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
843 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
844 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
845 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
846 details in the main documentation.
847
3634fc25
TF
848TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
849
792e8a19
TF
850TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
851
5901f0ab
TF
852TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
853 repository when doing development or release builds.
854
7f2a2a43
PP
855PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
856 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 857
061b7ebd
PP
858PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
859 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
860 Bugzilla 97.
861
e12f8c32
PP
862PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
863
9e949f00 864PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
865 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
866
867PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
868 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 869
555ae6af 870PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
871 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
872
873PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
874 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 875
6f7fe114
PP
876PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
877 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
878
c566dd90
PP
879PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
880 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
881 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
882 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 883
d6cc7c78 884PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
885 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
886 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
887
0d0e4455
PP
888PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
889
3399bb60 890PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
891
892PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
893 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
894
0ca0cf52 895
10906672
PP
896Exim version 4.76
897-----------------
898
899PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
900
754a0503
PP
901PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
902 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
903
c0c7b2da
PP
904PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
905
e97d1f08
PP
906PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
907
084c1d8c
PP
908PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
909 Bugzilla 1098.
910
4e7ee012
PP
911PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
912 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 913
c8d52a00
PP
914TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
915 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
916
54e7ce4a
PP
917PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
918 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
919
5ee6f336
PP
920PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
921 Bugzilla 1104.
922
c8d52a00 923TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
924 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
925
926TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
927 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
928 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
929 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
930
931PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
932 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 933
10906672 934
aa097c4c
NM
935Exim version 4.75
936-----------------
937
4c9ef03a 938NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
939 Bugzilla 1073
940
7f3d9eff
TF
941TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
942 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
943 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
944
159f52d2
TF
945TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
946 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
947
0cc9542a
PP
948PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
949 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
950 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
951
f7274286
PP
952PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
953 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
954
7b797365
PP
955PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
956 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
957
caacae52
NM
958NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
959 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
960
09dcaba9
NM
961NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
962 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
963
bc19a55b
PP
964PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
965 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 966
bd4c9759
NM
967NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
968 Fixes bug 943.
969
b72aab72
PP
970PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
971 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
972
2fe76745
PP
973PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
974 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
975
76aa570c
PP
976PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
977 SQL string expansion failure details.
978 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
979
f1e5fef5
PP
980PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
981 Patch from Simon Arlott.
982
4d805ee9
PP
983PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
984 extern declarations in function scope.
985 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
986
cd59ab18
PP
987PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
988 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
989 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
990 a kernel bug).
991
332f5cf3
PP
992PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
993 Patch from Mark Zealey.
994
29cfeb94
PP
995PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
996 Patch from Mark Zealey.
997
660242ad
PP
998PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
999 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1000
bc4bc4c5
PP
1001PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1002 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1003
2e64baa9
NM
1004NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1005 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1006 Dennis Davis.
1007
bddd7526
PP
1008PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1009
6bac1a9a
PP
1010PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1011
552193f0
NM
1012NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1013 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1014
1b587e48
TF
1015TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1016 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1017
aa097c4c 1018
8c07b69f
TF
1019Exim version 4.74
1020-----------------
1021
1022TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1023 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1024
c0ea85ab
TF
1025TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1026 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1027
0761d44e
TF
1028TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1029
0a349494
PP
1030DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1031 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1032 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1033
1034PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1035 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1036 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1037
fea24b2e
PP
1038PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1039 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1040 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1041 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1042
6545de78
PP
1043PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1044 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1045 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1046 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1047
1670ef10
PP
1048PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1049 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1050 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1051 arbitrary files.
1052
c0886197
PP
1053PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1054 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1055
b7487bce
PP
1056PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1057 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1058 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1059 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1060 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1061
8c07b69f 1062
97fd1e48 1063Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1064-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1065
1066PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1067 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1068 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1069
6901c596
PP
1070PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1071 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1072
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1073JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1074
77bb000f
PP
1075PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1076
a29e5231
PP
1077PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1078
ec5a0394 1079PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1080
55c75993
PP
1081PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1082
453a6645 1083PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1084 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1085 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1086 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1087
8544e77a
PP
1088PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1089 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1090 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1091 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1092 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1093
83e029d5
PP
1094PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1095
ed7f7860
PP
1096PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1097
7d9f747b
PP
1098PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1099
4b2241d2
PP
1100PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1101
10385c15
PP
1102PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1103
dbc4b90d
PP
1104PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1105
532be449
PP
1106PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1107
6a8de854 1108PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1109 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1110 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1111
5dc43717
JJ
1112JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1113
1114JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1115 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1116
3346ab01
PP
1117PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1118 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1119
491fab4c
PP
1120PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1121 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1122 Notification from John Horne.
1123
13eb9497
PP
1124PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1125 compatible.
1126
1127PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1128 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1129 it normally works.
1130
7f36d675
DW
1131DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1132 access.
1133
c1d94452
DW
1134DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1135 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1136 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1137
e2f5dc15
DW
1138DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1139 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1140 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1141 configuration file.
1142
cd25e41d
DW
1143DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1144 option (effectively making it always true).
1145
261dc43e
DW
1146DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1147 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1148
fa32850b
DW
1149DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1150 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1151
79d4bc3d
PP
1152PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1153 run-time user, instead of root.
1154
43236f35 1155PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1156 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1157
fb08281f
DW
1158DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1159 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1160 arguments.
3346ab01 1161
74935b98
DW
1162DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1163 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1164 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1165
90b6341f
DW
1166DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1167
57730b52
ML
1168NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1169
66581d1e 1170
465e92cf
JJ
1171Exim version 4.72
1172-----------------
1173
453a6645
PP
1174JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1175 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1176 typos
465e92cf 1177
453a6645
PP
1178JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1179 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1180 (Finput)
edae0343 1181
9bd3e22c
NM
1182NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1183 Patch from Alain Williams
1184
bb576ff7
NM
1185NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1186
5a1a5845
NM
1187NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1188 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1189
981a9fad
NM
1190NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1191 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1192
7fc497ee
NM
1193NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1194
1a41defa
JJ
1195JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1196
a466095c 1197NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1198 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1199
94a6bd0b
NM
1200TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1201
1202TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1203
1204MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1205 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1206 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1207
c1b141a8
NM
1208NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1209 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1210
b26eacf1 1211NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1212 Patch by Simon Arlott
1213
179c5980 1214PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1215 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1216
9bd3e22c 1217
7c6d71af
NM
1218Exim version 4.71
1219-----------------
1220
7d9f747b 1221TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1222
f013fb92
NM
1223NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1224
0eb8eedd
NM
1225NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1226
663ee6d9
NM
1227NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1228
177ebd9b
NM
1229NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1230
7c6d71af 1231
210f147e
NM
1232Exim version 4.70
1233-----------------
1234
cdd3bb85 1235TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1236 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1237
1238TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1239 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1240 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1241
1242TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1243 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1244 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1245
1246TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1247 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1248
210f147e
NM
1249NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1250 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1251 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1252 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1253
deafd5b3
NM
1254NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1255 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1256 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1257
089793a4
TF
1258TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1259
5f16ca82
TF
1260TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1261
dae9d94e 1262NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1263 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1264
7d9f747b 1265NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1266
06864c44
TF
1267TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1268 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1269 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1270 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1271
65a7d8c3 1272NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1273 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1274
23510047 1275TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1276
7d9f747b 1277NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1278
7d8eec3a 1279NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1280 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1281
89dec7b6
TF
1282TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1283 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1284
a99de90c
TF
1285TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1286 that they are available at delivery time.
1287
e2803e40
TF
1288TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1289
7199e1ee
TF
1290TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1291 incoming_port log selectors.
1292
e276e04b
TF
1293TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1294 setting expands to an empty string.
1295
ce552449 1296NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1297 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1298
e765a0f1 1299NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1300 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1301
4f054c63 1302NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1303 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1304
7d9f747b
PP
1305NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1306 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1307
7d9f747b
PP
1308NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1309 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1310
b52bc06e 1311NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1312 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1313
447de4b0
NM
1314NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1315
4c69d561 1316NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1317 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1318
d5c39246 1319NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1320 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1321
0b23848a
TK
1322TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1323
8f3414a1 1324NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1325 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1326
fb6f955d
NM
1327NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1328
1329NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1330
7d9f747b
PP
1331NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1332 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1333
7d9f747b
PP
1334NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1335 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1336
7d9f747b
PP
1337NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1338 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1339
7d9f747b
PP
1340NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1341 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1342
7d9f747b
PP
1343NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1344 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1345
7d9f747b
PP
1346NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1347 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1348
7d9f747b
PP
1349NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1350 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1351
7d9f747b 1352NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1353 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1354
7d9f747b 1355NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1356
7d9f747b
PP
1357NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1358 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1359
7d9f747b 1360NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1361
7d9f747b 1362NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1363
7d9f747b 1364NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1365
7d9f747b 1366NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1367
17792b53 1368NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1369 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1370
7d9f747b
PP
1371NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1372 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1373
91576cec 1374NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1375 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1376
7d9f747b
PP
1377NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1378 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1379
7d9f747b 1380NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1381
7d9f747b 1382NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1383
7d9f747b 1384NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1385
7d9f747b 1386NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1387
deafd5b3 1388
47db1125
NM
1389Exim version 4.69
1390-----------------
1391
4b3504d0
TK
1392TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1393 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1394 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1395
1396 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1397 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1398 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1399 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1400 build errors in sieve.c.
1401
81ea09ca
NM
1402NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1403 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1404 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1405
f13cddcb
SC
1406SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1407
7d9f747b 1408NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1409
7d9f747b 1410NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1411
7d9f747b 1412NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1413
1414
eb4c0de6
PH
1415Exim version 4.68
1416-----------------
1417
1418PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1419
6a3bceb1
PH
1420PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1421 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1422 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1423 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1424 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1425 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1426 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1427 for iplsearch lookups.
1428
1429 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1430 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1431 previously such lookups could never work.
1432
1433 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1434 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1435 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1436
2e30fa9d
TK
1437TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1438 version.
1439
0806a9c5
MH
1440MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1441 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1442 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1443 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1444 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1445 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1446
ae276964
TK
1447TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1448 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1449
0f2cbd1b
MH
1450MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1451 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1452 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1453 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1454 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1455 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1456
2b85bce7
PH
1457PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1458 local_scan API.
1459
93655c46
PH
1460PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1461
6c512171
PH
1462PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1463 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1464 encrypted.
1465
1466PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1467 by clients under certain conditions.
1468
aa6dc513
PH
1469PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1470 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1471
a96603a0
PH
1472PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1473
8f240103
PH
1474PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1475 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1476
1477PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1478
d677b2f2
PH
1479PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1480
d52120f2
PH
1481PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1482
64f2600a
PH
1483PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1484 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1485
8669f003
PH
1486PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1487
a4dc33a8
PH
1488PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1489 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1490
d6a60c0f
PH
1491PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1492
8f128379
PH
1493PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1494
8932dffe
PH
1495PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1496 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1497 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1498 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1499
ddea74fa 1500PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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1501 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1502 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1503
ddea74fa 1504PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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1505 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1506
ddea74fa
PH
1507PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1508
ce9f225c
PH
1509PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1510
19897d52
PH
1511PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1512
bc64a74d
PH
1513PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1514 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1515 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1516
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1518Exim version 4.67
1519-----------------
1520
22ad45c9
MH
1521MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1522 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1523 Jan Srzednicki.
1524
b4ed4da0
PH
1525PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1526 issue a MAIL command.
1527
431b7361
PH
1528PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1529
1530 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1531
1532 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1533 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1534 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1535 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1536 item. This has been fixed.
1537
1538PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1539 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1540
83da1223
PH
1541PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1542 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1543
54fc8428
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1544PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1545 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1546 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1547
34c5e8dd
SC
1548SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1549
bbe15da8
PH
1550PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1551 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1552 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1553 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1554 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1555
0e8a9471
MH
1556MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1557 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1558 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1559
f0872424
PH
1560PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1561 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1562 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1563 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1564
b01dd148
PH
1565PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1566
6bf342e1
PH
1567PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1568
273f34d0
PH
1569PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1570 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1571 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1572 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1573 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1574
cf8b11a5
PH
1575PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1576
41c7c167
PH
1577PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1578 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1579 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1580 values).
1581
9c57cbc0
PH
1582PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1583
f3f065bb
PH
1584PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1585
047bdd8c
PH
1586PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1587
0ce9abe6
PH
1588PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1589
0e22dfd1
PH
1590PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1591
4c590bd1
PH
1592PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1593 no_callout_flush is set.
1594
09945f1e
PH
1595PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1596 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1597 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1598 fixed.
1599
c51b8e75
PH
1600PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1601
e28326d8
PH
1602PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1603 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1604 other ACL rejections are.
1605
75b1493f
PH
1606PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1607 with slight modification.
1608
7c5214ec
PH
1609PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1610 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1611
4311097e
PH
1612PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1613 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1614 connection.
1615
29f89cad
PH
1616PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1617 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1618
5e687460
SC
1619SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1620
c3611384
PH
1621PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1622 expansion side effects.
1623
5a11a7b4
PH
1624PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1625 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1626 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1627 be the same.
1628
0e20aff9
MH
1629MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1630 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1631 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1632
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PH
1633PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1634 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1635 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1636 were accidentally chopped off.
1637
a14e5636
PH
1638PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1639 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1640 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1641 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1642 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1643 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1644 pipelining has not been advertised.
1645
ec95d1a6
PH
1646PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1647
42855d71
PH
1648PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1649 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1650 This has been fixed.
1651
57c2c631
PH
1652PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1653 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1654 reported on Solaris.
1655
58c01c94
PH
1656PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1657 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1658 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1659 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1660 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1661 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1662 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1663
dee5a20a
PH
1664PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1665 cpus.
1666
d2ee6114
PH
1667PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1668
b2d5182b
PH
1669PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1670
79749a79
PH
1671PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1672 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
1673 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1674 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1675 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1676 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1677
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PH
1678PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1679 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1680 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1681 host_all_ignored option.
1682
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1683PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1684 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1685 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1686 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1687 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1688 is what is supposed to happen).
1689
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1690PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1691 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1692 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1693 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1694 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1695 uses the Exim user.
1696
2679d413
PH
1697PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1698 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1699 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1700 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1701 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1702 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1703 users.
1704
84024b72
PH
1705PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1706
8005d38e
SC
1707SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1708 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1709 (Jez Hancock).
1710 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1711 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1712
3298c6c6
SC
1713SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1714
a43a27c5
PH
1715PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1716
58eb016e 1717PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1718 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1719 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1720 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1721 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1722 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1723 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1724 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1725 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1726 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1727 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1728
b43a74ea
PH
1729PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1730 advertised in response to EHLO.
1731
b4ed4da0 1732
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PH
1733Exim version 4.66
1734-----------------
1735
1736PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1737 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1738
1739 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1740 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1741
1742 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1743 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1744 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1745
1746 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1747 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1748 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1749 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1750 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1751
1752
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TK
1753Exim version 4.65
1754-----------------
1755
1756TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1757 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1758 versions. (#438)
1759
d6066548
MH
1760MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1761 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1762 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1763
4362ff0d
PH
1764PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1765 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1766 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1767 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1768 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1769 rather than extend the field.
1770
93cfa765 1771
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1772Exim version 4.64
1773-----------------
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1775TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1776 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1777 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1778 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1779 these files.
1780
1781TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1782 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1783 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1784
1785TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1786 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1787 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1788
1789TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1790 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1791 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1792 in the field name.
1793
2b1c6e3a
PH
1794PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1795 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1796 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1797 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1798 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1799 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1800 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1801 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1802 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1803 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1804 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1805
1f872c80
PH
1806PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1807 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1808
1809PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1810 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1811 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1812 ignores EPIPE as well.
1813
d203e649
PH
1814PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1815 (quoted-printable decoding).
1816
cc2ed8f7 1817PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1818 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1819
ddfcd446
PH
1820PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1821
d45b1de8
PH
1822PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1823
1824PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1825
38a0a95f 1826PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1827 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1828
a2405d83
JJ
1829JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1830 in 4.64-PH/09.
1831
1832JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1833 miscellaneous code fixes
1834
6ea85e9a
PH
1835PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1836 rejections.
1837
26da7e20
PH
1838PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1839 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1840 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1841 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1842 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1843 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1844 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1845 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1846
14aa5a05 1847PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1848 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1849 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1850 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1851 function.
1852 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1853 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1854 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1855 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1856 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1857 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1858 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1859 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1860 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1861
ff75a1f7
PH
1862PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1863 decoding.
1864
e6f6568e
PH
1865PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1866 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1867 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1868 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1869 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1870 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1871 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1872 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1873
d6f6e0dc
PH
1874PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1875 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1876 list.
1877
322050c2
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1878PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1879 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1880 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1881 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1882 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1883 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1884 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1885 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1886 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1887 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1888 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1889 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1890 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1891
08955dd3
PH
1892PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1893 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1894 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1895 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1896 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1897 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1898 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1899
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PH
1900PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1901 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1902 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1903 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1904 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1905 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1906 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1907 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1908 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1909 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1910
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PH
1911PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1912 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1913 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1914 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1915 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1916
411ef850
PH
1917PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1918 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1919 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1920 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1921 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1922 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1923 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1924
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PH
1925PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1926 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1927 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1928 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1929 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1930 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1931 been verified.
1932
48da4259 1933PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1934 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1935 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1936 and authorization.)
1937
48da4259
PH
1938PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1939 if any retry times were supplied.
1940
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1941PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1942 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1943 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1944
0ef732d9
PH
1945PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1946
328895cc
PH
1947PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1948
fd700877
PH
1949PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1950 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1951 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1952 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1953 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1954 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1955
8dce1a6f
PH
1956PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1957 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1958
17af4a17
PH
1959PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1960 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1961 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1962
1963PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1964 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1965 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1966 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1967 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1968 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1969 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1970 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1971 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1972
1973 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1974 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1975 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1976 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1977 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1978 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1979 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1980 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1981 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1982
1983 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1984 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1985 hammering the server.
1986
c1114884
PH
1987PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1988 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1989
7a0743eb
PH
1990PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1991
0d85fa3f
PH
1992PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1993 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1994 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1995
1bf43b78
PH
1996PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1997 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1998 one case where this was not true.
1999
520de300
PH
2000PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2001 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2002 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2003 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2004 fails.
2005
48c7f9e2
PH
2006PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2007 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2008 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2009 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2010 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2011 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2012 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2013 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2014 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2015 smtp transport.
2016
99ea1c86
PH
2017PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2018 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2019 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2020 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2021
a2042e78
PH
2022PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2023 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2024
4fbcfc2e
PH
2025PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2026 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2027 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2028
aa41d2de
PH
2029PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2030
af561417
PH
2031PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2032
3cc66b45
PH
2033PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2034
194cc0e4
PH
2035PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2036 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2037 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2038 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2039
a401ddaa
PH
2040PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2041 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2042
4e88a19f
PH
2043PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2044 be meaningful with "accept".
2045
d7d7b289
SC
2046SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2047 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2048
2049SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2050 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2051 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2052
2053SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2054 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2055 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2056 there is data to show.
2057 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2058
2059SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2060 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2061 as well as the number of messages.
2062
2063SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2064 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2065 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2066
2067SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2068 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2069 have a flag are now skipped.
2070
2071SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2072 Added the -emptyok flag.
2073
2074SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2075 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2076
0ea2a468
JJ
2077JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2078 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2079 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2080
2081JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2082 match 4.64-PH/13
2083
2084JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2085 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2086
2087JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2088
2089JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2090 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2091
8a10f5a4
PH
2092PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2093
30e18802
PH
2094PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2095 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2096 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2097 contravention of the specifications.
2098
55728a4f
PH
2099PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2100 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2101 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2102
d7837193
PH
2103PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2104 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2105 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2106
87054a31
PH
2107PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2108
ea2c01d2
MH
2109MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2110 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2111 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2112 some point in the past.
2113
e4fa6968
PH
2114PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2115 transport during callout processing was broken.
2116
56f5d9bd
PH
2117PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2118 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2119
922e1c28
PH
2120PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2121 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2122
21eb6e72
PH
2123PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2124 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2125
a0540757
PH
2126PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2127
944e9e9c 2128
478be7b0
SC
2129Exim version 4.63
2130-----------------
2131
2132SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2133 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2134
2135SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2136 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2137 there is data to show.
2138 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2139
2140SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2141 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2142
2b965a65
TF
2143TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2144 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2145
45b91596
PH
2146TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2147 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2148
c59f5781
TF
2149TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2150 submissions from trusted users.
2151
90fc3069
TF
2152TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2153 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2154
6083aca0
TF
2155TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2156 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2157 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2158 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2159 there is now a framework to start from.
2160
765b530f
PH
2161PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2162 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2163 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2164
4e167a8c
PH
2165PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2166
4608d683
PH
2167PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2168
b8dc3e4a
PH
2169PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2170
5418e93b
PH
2171PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2172 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2173 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2174
b4a9bda2
PH
2175PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2176 libradius.
2177
45b91596
PH
2178PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2179 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2180 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2181
5547e2c5
PH
2182PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2183 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2184 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2185 its arguments.
2186
dbcef0ea
PH
2187PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2188 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2189 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2190 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2191 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2192
25257489
PH
2193PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2194 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2195
c816d124
PH
2196PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2197
a9ccd69a
PH
2198PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2199 operations in malware.c.
2200
75fa1910
PH
2201PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2202 signatures.
2203
a7d7aa58
PH
2204PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2205 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2206 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2207 all.
2208
42119b09
PH
2209PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2210 statements to "add_header".
2211
41609df5
PH
2212PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2213 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2214
a5bd321b
PH
2215PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2216 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2217 latter.
2218
e85a7ad5 2219PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2220 so that it is now:
2221
e85a7ad5
PH
2222 ${if or { \
2223 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2224 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2225 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2226 }{no}{yes}}
2227
e85a7ad5
PH
2228 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2229 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2230
d8fe1c03
PH
2231PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2232 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2233
16282d2b
PH
2234PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2235 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2236 any possible encoding problems.
2237
35d40a98
PH
2238PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2239 but not after initializing Perl.
2240
034d99ab
PH
2241PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2242 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2243 apparently, which is not desirable.
2244
6ec97b1b
PH
2245PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2246 queries.
2247
e22ca4ac
JJ
2248JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2249 --not options
2250
2251JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2252
33d73e3b
PH
2253PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2254 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2255 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2256 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2257
9ecb03f3
PH
2258PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2259 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2260 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2261
084efe8d
PH
2262PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2263 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2264 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2265 0.12.
2266
366fc9f0
PH
2267PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2268 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2269 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2270 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2271 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2272
c59f5781 2273
c887c79e
TF
2274Exim version 4.62
2275-----------------
2276
2277TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2278 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2279
1cce3af8
PH
2280PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2281 patch).
2282
afb3eaaf
PH
2283PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2284 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2285 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2286 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2287 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2288 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2289 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2290 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2291 451 error is used.
2292
e173618b
PH
2293PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2294
dd16e114
PH
2295PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2296 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2297 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2298
f7fd3850
PH
2299PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2300 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2301 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2302 odd errors.
2303
d87df92c
PH
2304PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2305 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2306
7e9f683d
PH
2307PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2308 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2309 option (which defaults to 0600).
2310
bfad5236
PH
2311PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2312
01c490df
PH
2313PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2314 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2315 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2316 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2317 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2318 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2319 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2320
d6629cdc
PH
2321PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2322
1cce3af8 2323
214e2000
PH
2324Exim version 4.61
2325-----------------
2326
2327PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2328 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2329 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2330 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2331 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2332 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2333 addresses as local.
2334
f9daeae0
PH
2335PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2336 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2337
7e66e54d
PH
2338PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2339
c8ea1597
PH
2340PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2341 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2342 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2343 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2344 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2345 grumble.
2346
911f6fde
PH
2347PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2348 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2349
47ca6d6c
PH
2350PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2351 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2352 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2353 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2354 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2355
ed0e9820
PH
2356PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2357 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2358 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2359 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2360
eff37e47
PH
2361PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2362 be the same on different OS.
2363
1921d2ea
PH
2364PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2365 testing.
2366
b3f69ca8
JJ
2367JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2368 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2369
2370JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2371 in 4.61-PH/06
2372
424a1c63
PH
2373PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2374 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2375 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2376 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2377 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2378 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2379 bounce message.
2380
7a100415
PH
2381PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2382 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2383 when Exim was called.
2384
19b9dc85
PH
2385PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2386 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2387
309bd837
PH
2388PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2389 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2390 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2391 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2392
59e82a2a
PH
2393PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2394 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2395 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2396 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2397 changes:
2398
2399 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2400 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2401 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2402
2403 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2404 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2405 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2406
9edc04ce
PH
2407PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2408 feature).
2409
1349e1e5
PH
2410PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2411 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2412 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2413 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2414 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2415 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2416 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2417 values from the SRV records were lost.
2418
ea49d0e1
PH
2419PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2420 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2421 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2422
064a94c9
PH
2423PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2424 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2425 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2426
727071f8
PH
2427PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2428 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2429 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2430 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2431 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2432 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2433 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2434 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2435 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2436 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2437
f78eb7c6
PH
2438PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2439 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2440 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2441
21c28500
PH
2442PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2443 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2444
2445PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2446 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2447 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2448 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2449 is given.
2450
1688f43b
PH
2451PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2452 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2453 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2454
2455PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2456 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2457 PH/23 above applies.
2458
9675b384
PH
2459PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2460 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2461 (for which there is an explicit test).
2462
6a3f1455
PH
2463PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2464
dac79d3e
PH
2465PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2466 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2467 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2468 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2469 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2470
5977a0b3
PH
2471PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2472 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2473 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2474 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2475
c91535f3
PH
2476PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2477 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2478 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2479
0d46a8c8
PH
2480PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2481
278c6e6c
PH
2482PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2483
2cbb4081
PH
2484PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2485 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2486 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2487
3eef829e
PH
2488PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2489 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2490 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2491 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2492 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2493
1ab95fa6
PH
2494PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2495 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2496 the message gets confusing).
2497
230205fc
PH
2498PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2499 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2500 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2501 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2502
75e0e026
PH
2503PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2504 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2505 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2506 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2507 same order.
2508
2509PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2510 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2511 the different processes.
2512
145396a6
PH
2513PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2514
3cd34f13
PH
2515PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2516
11121d3d
JJ
2517JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2518 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2519
2520JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2521 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2522
2523JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2524 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2525 messages matching specified criteria.
2526
8def5aaf
PH
2527PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2528
929ba01c
PH
2529PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2530 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2531
2632889e
PH
2532PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2533 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2534 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2535 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2536 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2537 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2538 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2539 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2540 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2541 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2542
944a9c55
PH
2543PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2544 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2545 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2546
4a23603b
PH
2547PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2548
4730f942
PH
2549PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2550 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2551 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2552 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2553 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2554 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2555 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2556 the variable.
2557
30dba1e6
PH
2558PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2559 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2560
382afc6b
PH
2561PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2562
a86229cf
PH
2563PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2564
50c99ba6
PH
2565PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2566
d35e429d
PH
2567PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2568 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2569 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2570 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2571 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2572 size of the count of files.
2573
f90d018c
PH
2574PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2575
75def545
PH
2576PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2577 used in LMTP mode:
2578
2579 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2580 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2581 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2582 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2583
2584 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2585 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2586 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2587
2588PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2589 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2590 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2591 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2592 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2593
c46782ef
PH
2594PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2595 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2596
71fafd95
PH
2597PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2598 will now be deprecated.
2599
2c5db4fd
PH
2600PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2601
9cf6b11a
JJ
2602JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2603 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2604 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2605
2606JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2607 with very large, slow to parse queues
2608
2609JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2610
2611JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2612
898d150f
PH
2613PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2614 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2615 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2616 SMTP output lines.
2617
46218253
PH
2618PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2619 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2620 Sieve code now uses this.
2621
e97957bc
PH
2622PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2623 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2624
81e509d7
PH
2625PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2626 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2627
3d240ff7
PH
2628PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2629
b37c4101
PH
2630PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2631 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2632 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2633 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2634 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2635
79378e0f
PH
2636PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2637 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2638 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2639 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2640
e49c7bb4
PH
2641PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2642
d114ec46
PH
2643PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2644
f3d7df6c
PH
2645PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2646 is preferred over IPv4.
2647
715ab376
PH
2648PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2649 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2650 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2651 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2652 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2653 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2654 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2655
6b31b150
PH
2656PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2657 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2658 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2659
2660PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2661
d515a917
PH
2662PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2663 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2664 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2665 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2666 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2667 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2668 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2669 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2670 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2671 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2672 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2673
9b8fadde
PH
2674PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2675 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2676 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2677
214e2000 2678
5de37277
PH
2679Exim version 4.60
2680-----------------
2681
cc38ddbf
PH
2682PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2683
2684 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2685 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2686
2687 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2688 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2689 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2690
72fdd6ae
PH
2691PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2692
2693 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2694 not a single digit.
2695
2696 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2697 string.
2698
2699 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2700 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2701 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2702 silly things.
2703
2704 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2705 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2706
2707 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2708 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2709
cb741023
PH
2710PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2711 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2712 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2713
f174f16e
PH
2714PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2715 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2716
c25242d7
PH
2717PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2718 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2719
2720 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2721
2722 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2723 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2724 this:
2725
2726 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2727
82c19f95
PH
2728PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2729 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2730 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2731 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2732 identical. For example:
2733
2734 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2735
2736 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2737 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2738 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2739
d7ffbc12
PH
2740PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2741 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2742 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2743 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2744
9f526266
PH
2745PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2746 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2747 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2748 message.
2749
87fcc8b9
PH
2750PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2751
2752 o fixes some comments
2753 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2754 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2755 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2756 and documents the missing references header update
2757
2758 and most important:
2759
2760 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2761 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2762 result)
2763
456682f5
PH
2764PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2765 Electronic Mail") by including:
2766
2767 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2768
2769 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2770 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2771 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2772 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2773 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2774
2775 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2776
2777 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2778
2779 The auto-replied keyword:
2780
2781 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2782 message by an automatic process,
2783
2784 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2785
2786 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2787 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2788
2789 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2790 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2791 other messages.
2792
3e46c1aa
PH
2793PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2794 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2795
49826d12
PH
2796PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2797
eba0c039
PH
2798PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2799 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2800 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2801
a0d6ba8a
PH
2802PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2803 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2804 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2805
f0917727
PH
2806PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2807 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2808 and treats the condition as false.
2809
096fee00
PH
2810PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2811
024bd3c2
PH
2812PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2813 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2814 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2815 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2816 not changing the active code.
2817
2818 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2819 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2820
2821 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2822 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2823
df199fec
PH
2824PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2825 (Bugzilla #53).
2826
d27f1df3
PH
2827PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2828 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2829 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2830 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2831 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2832 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2833 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2834 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2835 the text comparison.
2836
96776534
PH
2837PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2838 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2839 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2840 The same fix has been applied.
2841
5de37277 2842
9a799bc0
PH
2843Exim version 4.54
2844-----------------
2845
2846PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2847 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2848 It now does.
2849
99a4b039
PH
2850PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2851 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2852
2853PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2854
4b233853
PH
2855PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2856 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2857 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2858 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2859 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2860
8857ccfd
PH
2861TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2862 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2863 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2864 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2865 or /domain=).
2866
433a2980
PH
2867PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2868 testing suite.
2869
3e46c1aa 2870
9a799bc0 2871
e3a311ba
TK
2872Exim version 4.53
2873-----------------
2874
2875TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2876 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2877
13b685f9
PH
2878PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2879
395ff96d
PH
2880PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2881
5b68f6e4
PH
2882PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2883 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2884 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2885
1ab52c69
PH
2886PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2887 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2888 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2889
b07e6aa3
PH
2890PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2891 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2892 operating systems.
2893
254e032f
PH
2894PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2895 ${stat: expansion item.
2896
3af76a81
PH
2897PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2898 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2899
2548ba04
PH
2900PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2901 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2902 file for comments.
2903
b6c6011d
PH
2904PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2905
cf39cf57
PH
2906PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2907 setting.
2908
f1513293
PH
2909PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2910 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2911
727549a4
PH
2912TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2913
af46795e
PH
2914PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2915 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2916 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2917 the end of the subprocess.
2918
d7b47fd0
PH
2919PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2920 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2921 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2922 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2923 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2924
ee744174
JJ
2925JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2926
b582ab87
PH
2927TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2928
41a13e0a
PH
2929PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2930 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2931
f625cc5a
PH
2932PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2933
2934PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2935
21f7af35
PH
2936PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2937 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2938 HP-UX compiler.
2939
31480e42
PH
2940PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2941
2d280592
PH
2942PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2943 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2944 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2945
7cd1141b
PH
2946PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2947 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2948
2949PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2950 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2951
750af86e
PH
2952PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2953 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2954
2955 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2956 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2957
2958 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2959 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2960 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2961 contributed by a Radius user.
2962
2963PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2964 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2965
4304270b
TK
2966TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2967 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2968
750af86e
PH
2969PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2970 available.
2971
64ffc24f
PH
2972PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2973 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2974 received.
2975
5dd9625b
PH
2976PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2977 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2978 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2979 header lines when this was not necessary.
2980
5591031b
PH
2981PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2982
ba18e66a
PH
2983PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2984 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2985 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2986 exists".
2987
9cec981f
PH
2988PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2989 -bV or -d is used.
2990
aa2b5c79
PH
2991PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2992 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2993 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2994 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2995
48a53b7f
PH
2996PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2997
1c59d63b
PH
2998PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2999
671012da
TK
3000TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3001
1509d3a8
PH
3002PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3003
3004PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3005 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3006 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3007 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3008 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3009 settings.
3010
3011PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3012
2fe1a124
PH
3013PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3014 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3015 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3016 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3017 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3018 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3019 which is clearly wrong.
3020
8800895a
PH
3021PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3022
ccfdb010
PH
3023PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3024 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3025 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3026 subsequently added.
3027
1130bfb0
PH
3028PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3029 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3030
ebcb507f
PH
3031PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3032
c35e155c
PH
3033PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3034 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3035
95d1f782
PH
3036PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3037 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3038
fd6de02e
PH
3039PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3040 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3041
58de37c5
PH
3042PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3043 recipients, not senders.
3044
261cf466
TF
3045TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3046 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3047
3ee512ff
PH
3048PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3049
e08c430f
PH
3050PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3051
bef5a11f
PH
3052PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3053 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3054 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3055 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3056
7546de58
TF
3057TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3058
e5d5a95f
TF
3059TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3060 clock is set back in time.
3061
2e88a017
TF
3062TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3063 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3064
a5f65aa4
TF
3065TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3066 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3067
e7726cbf
PH
3068PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3069 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3070 (see PH/47 above).
3071
a7fdad5b
TF
3072TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3073 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3074 header rewrites.
3075
6af56900
PH
3076PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3077 type ("H").
3078
0925ede6
PH
3079PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3080
66afa403
TF
3081TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3082 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3083 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3084
0154e85a
TF
3085TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3086 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3087 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3088 helo verification defer as a failure.
3089
16f12c76
PH
3090PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3091 actual error message.
3092
bbe902f0 3093
e5a9dba6
PH
3094Exim version 4.52
3095-----------------
3096
3097TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3098
22c3b60b
PH
3099PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3100 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3101 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3102 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3103
06a9b4b5
PH
3104TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3105
c1ac6996
PH
3106PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3107 can still be requested.
3108
9c7a242c
PH
3109PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3110 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3111 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3112 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3113
87ba3f5f
PH
3114TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3115 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3116 circumstances, but probably never did.
3117
3118PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3119 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3120 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3121 in the header line.
3122
29aba418
TF
3123TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3124
fe0dab11
TF
3125TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3126 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3127
11d337a4
TK
3128TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3129
3130TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3131
415c8f3b
PH
3132PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3133 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3134 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3135 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3136 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3137 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3138
958541e9
PH
3139PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3140 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3141 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3142 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3143 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3144 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3145
c206415f
TK
3146TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3147 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3148
2a4be8f9
PH
3149PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3150 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3151
1cba11c5
SC
3152SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3153 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3154
3155SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3156
3157SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3158
3159SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3160
3161SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3162
3163SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3164
3165SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3166
1005d00e
TK
3167TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3168
3169TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3170 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3171 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3172
3173TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3174 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3175 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3176 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3177
9b4768fa
PH
3178PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3179 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3180 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3181
3182PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3183 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3184 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3185 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3186
0d7eb84a
PH
3187PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3188 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3189 to be made).
3190
3191PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3192 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3193 should work with maildirs and everything.
3194
40727bee
TK
3195TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3196 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3197
554d2369
TF
3198TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3199 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3200
1f922db1
PH
3201PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3202 function for BDB 4.3.
3203
ef213c3b
PH
3204PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3205
8ac170f3
PH
3206PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3207 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3208 involved.
3209
b1c749bb
PH
3210PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3211 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3212 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3213 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3214 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3215 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3216
4aac9b49
PH
3217PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3218 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3219 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3220 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3221 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3222 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3223 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3224 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3225
294520c8
TK
3226TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3227 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3228 details.
3229
5bd022fe
PH
3230PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3231 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3232
90e9ce59
PH
3233PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3234 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3235 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3236 test. It is now used for both.
3237
5ea81592
PH
3238PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3239 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3240 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3241 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3242 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3243 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3244
c6c2dc1d
PH
3245PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3246 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3247 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3248 string_vformat().
3249
fffffe4c
PH
3250PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3251 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3252 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3253
9a26b6b2
PH
3254PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3255 experimental DomainKeys support:
3256
3257 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3258 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3259 the control was given.
3260
3261 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3262
4aee0225
PH
3263PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3264
32d668a5
PH
3265PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3266
8187c3f3
PH
3267PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3268 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3269 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3270 db.h files).
3271
ff790e47 3272PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3273 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3274 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3275 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3276 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3277 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3278 course.
ff790e47 3279
5417f6d1
PH
3280PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3281 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3282 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3283 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3284 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3285 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3286
59cf8544
PH
3287PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3288 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3289 do -d+all out of habit.
3290
e7ad8a65
PH
3291PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3292 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3293 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3294
ade42478
PH
3295PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3296 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3297 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3298 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3299 record types that Exim uses.
3300
182ad5cf
PH
3301PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3302 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3303 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3304 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3305 non-existent file that was broken.
3306
b0d9fc80
TK
3307TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3308 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3309
3310TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3311 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3312 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3313
3314TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3315
47c7a64a
PH
3316PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3317 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3318 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3319 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3320 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3321 same time.
3322
a388bce4
SC
3323SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3324 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3325 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3326 at a slight CPU cost.
3327
3328SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3329 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3330
3331SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3332 by Marc Sherman.
3333
0793e4ed
SC
3334SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3335
c58b88df
PH
3336PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3337 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3338
e7ad8a65 3339
7982096b
PH
3340Exim version 4.51
3341-----------------
3342
1a46a8c5
PH
3343TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3344 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3345
2f079f46 3346TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3347
3348TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3349
3350PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3351 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3352
3353PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3354 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3355 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3356 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3357 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3358 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3359 file.
3360
3361PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3362 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3363 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3364 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3365 these two options.
3366
3367PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3368 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3369 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3370 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3371 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3372 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3373 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3374 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3375
3376PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3377 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3378
3379PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3380 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3381 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3382 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3383 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3384 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3385
3386PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3387 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3388 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3389 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3390
3391PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3392 Finch).
3393
3394PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3395 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3396
49c2d5ea
PH
3397PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3398 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3399 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3400 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3401 message.
49c2d5ea 3402
bf759a8b
PH
3403PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3404
83364d30
PH
3405PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3406 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3407
7999bbd7
PH
3408PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3409 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3410 to what was transported.)
3411
7dbf77c9
PH
3412TF/01 Added $received_time.
3413
74e0617f
PH
3414PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3415 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3416 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3417 spamd_address settings.
3418
2f079f46
PH
3419PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3420 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3421 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3422 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3423 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3424
8c841523
PH
3425PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3426
7766a4f0
PH
3427PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3428 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3429 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3430 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3431 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3432
8b417f2c
PH
3433PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3434 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3435
901f42cb
PH
3436PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3437 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3438 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3439 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3440 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3441 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3442 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3443 for failure.
3444
f9b9210e
PH
3445PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3446 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3447 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3448 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3449 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3450 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3451 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3452 "input=".
3453
54cdb463
PH
3454PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3455
cf00dad6
PH
3456PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3457 driver and ACL definitions.
3458
acb1b346
PH
3459PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3460 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3461
c5ddb310
PH
3462PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3463 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3464 understands it better than I do:
3465
3466 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3467 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3468
3469 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3470 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3471 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3472 => three warnings about OTP not working
3473 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3474
3475 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3476 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3477 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3478 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3479 for each call.)
3480 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3481 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3482
3483 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3484 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3485 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3486
31619da6
PH
3487PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3488 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3489 specified.
3490
bebaf0fc
PH
3491PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3492 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3493 "Linux".
3494
475fe28a
PH
3495PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3496 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3497 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3498
3499 warn !verify = sender
3500 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3501
3502 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3503 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3504
7e8bec7a
PH
3505PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3506
3507 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3508 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3509
3510 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3511 nomenclature these days.)
3512
e4a89c47
PH
3513PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3514 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3515
5ca2a9a1
PH
3516PH/30 In these circumstances:
3517 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3518 . First host does not offer TLS;
3519 . First host accepts first address;
3520 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3521 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3522 . Second host accepts second address.
3523 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3524 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3525 address.
7e8bec7a 3526
c688b954
PH
3527PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3528 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3529 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3530 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3531 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3532
fed77020
PH
3533PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3534 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3535
7fe1560f
PH
3536PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3537 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3538
ebb6e6d5
PH
3539PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3540 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3541 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3542
9c4e8f60
PH
3543PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3544 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3545 overlooked.
3546
3547PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3548
d7174846
PH
3549PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3550 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3551 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3552 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3553 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3554 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3555 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3556
3557 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3558 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3559 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3560 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3561 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3562
3563 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3564 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3565 routed further.
3566
cfe75fc3
PH
3567PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3568 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3569 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3570 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3571 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3572 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3573
be22d70e
PH
3574PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3575
0612b098
PH
3576PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3577 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3578 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3579 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3580 printable escape sequences.
3581
2e0c1448
PH
3582PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3583 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3584 body only.
3585
447d236c
PH
3586PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3587 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3588 are as follows:
3589
3590 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3591 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3592 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3593 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3594 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3595
3596 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3597 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3598 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3599
d20976dc
PH
3600PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3601
f656d135
PH
3602PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3603 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3604 play with."
3605
2e2a30b4
PH
3606PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3607 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3608 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3609 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3610 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3611 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3612 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3613 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3614 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3615 the log output.
3616
9176e9f0
PH
3617PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3618 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3619 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3620 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3621 "make".
3622
7982096b 3623
bbe902f0
PH
3624A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3625----------------------------------------
3626
3627Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3628changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3629needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3630in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3631that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3632release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3633from 4.43.
3634
3635I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36364.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3637those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3638historical information.
3639
3640
f7b63901 3641Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3642-----------------
3643
5fe762f6
PH
3644 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3645
139059f6 3646 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3647 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3648
7086e875
PH
3649 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3650 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3651 place.
3652
35af9f61
PH
3653 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3654 filter fails to execute.
3655
b668c215
PH
3656 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3657 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3658 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3659 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3660 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3661
a494b1e1
PH
3662 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3663
3664 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3665 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3666 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3667 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3668
c5fcb476
PH
3669 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3670 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3671 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3672 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3673 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3674
69358f02
PH
3675 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3676
5be20824
PH
367710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3678
eb2c0248
PH
367911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3680 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3681 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3682 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3683
2a3eea10
PH
368412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3685 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3686 sender verification.
3687
368813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3689 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3690
23c7ff99
PH
369114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3692
4deaf07d
PH
369315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3694 connection timeout.
3695
926e1192
PH
369616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3697 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3698
650edc6f
PH
369917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3700 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3701
2c7db3f5
PH
370218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3703 information about exactly what failed.
3704
3d235903
PH
370519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3706
7c7ad977
PH
370720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3708 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3709 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3710
981756db
PH
371121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3712 It is now set to "smtps".
3713
d4eb88df
PH
371422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3715 ignore_target_hosts.
3716
371723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3718 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3719 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3720 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3721 "[x.x.x.x]".
3722
7d468ab8
PH
372324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3724 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3725 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3726
372725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3728 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3729 wake it up if nothing else does.
3730
62c0818f
PH
373126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3732 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3733 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3734 end up negative.
3735
26034054
PH
373627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3737 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3738
af66f652
PH
373928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3740
90af77f4
PH
374129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3742 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3743 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3744 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3745 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3746 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3747 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3748 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3749
d8ef3577
PH
375030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3751 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3752 than one IP address.
3753
5cb8cbc6
PH
375431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3755 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3756 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3757 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3758
14702f5b
PH
375932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3760 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3761 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3762 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3763 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3764 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3765
063b1e99
PH
376633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3767 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3768 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3769 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3770
652e1b65
PH
377134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3772 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3773 respected.
3774
6f0c9a4f
PH
377535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3776 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3777 $sender_host_address.
3778
33397d19
PH
377936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3780 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3781 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3782 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3783 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3784 very small.
3785
7bb56e1f
PH
378637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3787
3788 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3789 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3790
ea3bc19b
PH
3791 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3792 just the host names, not the priorities.
3793
3794 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3795 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3796 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3797
ea3bc19b 3798 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3799 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3800
0bcb2a0e
PH
380138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3802 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3803 domain.
3804
2ac0e484
PH
380539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3806
4e1fde53
PH
380740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3808 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3809
de365ded
PH
381041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3811 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3812 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3813
f05da2e8
PH
381442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3815
d6453af2
PH
381643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3817
f7b63901
PH
381844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3819
382045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3821 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3822 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3823 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3824 because the tests only now provoked it.
3825
a444213a
PH
382646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3827 (this can affect the format of dates).
3828
0ec020ea
PH
382947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3830 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3831 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3832 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3833
b1206957
PH
383448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3835
383649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3837 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3838 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3839 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3840
26dd5a95
PH
384150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3842 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3843 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3844
343b2385
PH
384551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3846 autoreply.
3847
1c5466b9
PH
384852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3849 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3850 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3851 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3852 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3853 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3854 is going on).
3855
55ee9ee3
PH
385653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3857 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3858 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3859 the line.
3860
d38f8232
PH
386154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3862 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3863 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3864
3865 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3866 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3867 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3868 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3869 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3870 so I produce this patch..."
3871
3295e65b
PH
3872 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3873 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3874 is not defined.
3875
7102e136
PH
387655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3877 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3878 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3879 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3880 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3881
3ca0ba97
PH
388256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3883
c2bcbe20
PH
388457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3885 long debug lines gets shown.
3886
18ce445d
PH
388758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3888 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3889
1f5b4c3d
PH
389059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3891
3892 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3893 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3894 of $primary_hostname.
3895
b975ba52
PH
389660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3897 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3898 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3899 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3900 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3901 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3902 by change 4.50/55 above.
3903
3904 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3905 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3906 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3907 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3908 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3909 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3910 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3911
391261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3913 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3914 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3915 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3916
17ffcae7
PH
391762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3918 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3919
d95f9fdb
PH
392063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3921 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3922 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3923 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3924 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3925
86b8287f
PH
392664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3927 This has been fixed.
3928
60dc5e56
PH
392965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3930 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3931 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3932 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3933 the caching.)
3934
533244af
PH
393566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3936
a5a28604
PH
393767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3938 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3939 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3940 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3941
7e634d24
PH
394268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3943 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3944
3e11c26b
PH
394569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3946 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3947 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3948
6729cf78
PH
394970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3950 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3951 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3952 message there.
3953
00f00ca5
PH
395471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3955 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3956 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3957
c9bdd01c
PH
395872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3959 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3960 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3961 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3962
d43194df
PH
396373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3964 during host lookups.
3965
fe5b5d0b
PH
396674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3967 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3968
3969 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3970
76a2d7ba
PH
397175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3972 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3973 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3974 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3975 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3976 background.
3977
397876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3979 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3980
04f7d5b9
PH
398177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3982 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3983 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3984
bc60667e
PH
398578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3986
bb6e88ff
PH
398779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3988 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3989 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3990 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3991 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3992 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3993 process earlier.
3994
1e70f85b
PH
399580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3996 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3997 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3998 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3999 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4000
400181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4002 tables).
4003
4e01f9d6
PH
400482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4005
1ee1cef2
PH
400683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4007 "vacation" handling.
4008
6e2b4ccc
PH
400984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4010 OS variants using glibc.
4011
8e669ac1
PH
401285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4013
495ae4b0 4014
bbe902f0
PH
4015----------------------------------------------------
4016See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4017----------------------------------------------------
4018
4019
4020Exim version 4.44
4021-----------------
4022
4023 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4024 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4025 transport
4026
4027 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4028 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4029 place.
4030
4031 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4032 filter fails to execute.
4033
4034 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4035 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4036 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4037 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4038 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4039
4040 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4041 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4042 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4043 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4044
4045 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4046 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4047 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4048 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4049 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4050
4051 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4052
4053 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4054 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4055 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4056 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4057
4058 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4059 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4060 sender verification.
4061
406210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4063 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4064
406511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4066 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4067
406812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4069 ignore_target_hosts.
4070
407113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4072 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4073 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4074 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4075 "[x.x.x.x]".
4076
407714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4078 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4079 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4080
408115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4082 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4083 wake it up if nothing else does.
4084
408516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4086 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4087 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4088 end up negative.
4089
409017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4091 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4092
ea3a6f44 409318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4094
409519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4096 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4097 empty pattern.
4098
409920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4100 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4101 one IP address.
4102
ea3a6f44
NM
410321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4104 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4105 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4106 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4107 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4108 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4109
ea3a6f44
NM
411022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4111 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4112 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4113
411423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4115 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4116 $sender_host_address.
4117
411824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4119
ea3a6f44
NM
412025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4121 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4122 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4123
412426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4125 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4126
ea3a6f44
NM
412727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4128 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4129
ea3a6f44
NM
413028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4131 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4132 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4133 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4134
413529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4136 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4137 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4138
ea3a6f44
NM
413930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4140 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4141 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4142 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4143
ea3a6f44
NM
414431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4145 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4146 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4147
ea3a6f44
NM
414831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4149 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4150
ea3a6f44
NM
415132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4152 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4153 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4154 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4155 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4156 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4157 is going on).
bbe902f0 4158
ea3a6f44
NM
415933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4160 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4161 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4162 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4163 CAN-2005-0021
4164
ea3a6f44
NM
416534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4166 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4167 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4168 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4169 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4170 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4171 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4172
4173 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4174 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4175 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4176 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4177 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4178 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4179 CAN-2005-0021
4180
ea3a6f44
NM
418135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4182 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4183 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4184 CAN-2005-0022
4185
ea3a6f44
NM
418636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4187 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4188 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4189 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4190 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4191
ea3a6f44
NM
419237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4193 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4194 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4195 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4196 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4197
ea3a6f44
NM
419838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4199 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4200 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4201 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4202 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4203
4204
495ae4b0
PH
4205Exim version 4.43
4206-----------------
4207
4208 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4209 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4210 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4211 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4212 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4213 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4214 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4215
4216 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4217 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4218 the delivery.
4219
4220 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4221
4222 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4223
4224 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4225 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4226 to local_scan().
4227
4228 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4229 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4230 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4231 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4232 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4233
4234 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4235 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4236
4237 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4238
4239 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4240
424110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4242 header_sender only.
4243
424411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4245 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4246
424712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4248 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4249 affecting debugging statements).
4250
425113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4252
425314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4254 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4255 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4256 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4257 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4258 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4259 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4260 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4261 after the received time, and all would be well.
4262
426315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4264 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4265 condition in an expansion string.
4266
426716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4268
426917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4270 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4271 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4272 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4273 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4274 job under whatever limits there are.
4275
427618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4277
427819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4279 space).
4280
428120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4282 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4283 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4284 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4285 return path is set.
4286
428721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4288 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4289 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4290 binary data in such strings.
4291
429222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4293
429423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4295 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4296 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4297 failure, which is pointless.
4298
429924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4300
430125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4302
430326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4304 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4305 Sender: header lines.
4306
430727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4308 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4309 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4310
431128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4312 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4313 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4314 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4315 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4316 happens.
4317
431829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4319 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4320 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4321 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4322 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4323
432430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4325 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4326 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4327 1024.
4328
432931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4330 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4331
433232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4333 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4334
433533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4336
433732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4338
433933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4340
434134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4342 syntax error.
4343
434435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4345
434636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4347
434837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4349 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4350 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4351 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4352
435338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4354 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4355
4356
4357Exim version 4.42
4358-----------------
4359
4360 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4361 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4362 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4363 it was not quoted.
4364 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4365 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4366 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4367 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4368 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4369 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4370
4371 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4372 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4373 verification failure".
4374
4375 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4376 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4377 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4378 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4379
4380 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4381 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4382 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4383 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4384 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4385 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4386 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4387 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4388 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4389 treated as a timeout.
4390
4391 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4392 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4393 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4394 not set for Exim filters).
4395
4396 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4397 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4398 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4399
4400 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4401
4402 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4403 try to make them clearer.
4404
4405 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4406 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4407
4408 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4409
4410 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4411
441210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4413 only the Cygwin environment.
4414
441511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4416 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4417 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4418 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4419 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4420
442112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4422 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4423 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4424 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4425 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4426 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4427 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4428
442913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4430 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4431
443214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4433
4434 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4435 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4436 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4437
4438 To: susanne@some.where
4439
4440 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4441 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4442 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4443 of addresses in From: header lines).
4444
4445 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4446 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4447 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4448
4449 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4450 treated as non-personal.
4451
4452 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4453 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4454
445515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4456
445716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4458
445917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4460 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4461 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4462
446318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4464 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4465
446619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4467 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4468 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4469 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4470 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4471 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4472
447320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4474 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4475 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4476 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4477 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4478 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4479 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4480 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4481
4482 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4483
448421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4485 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4486
448722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4488 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4489 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4490
449123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4492 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4493
449424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4495 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4496 rather than long int.
4497
449825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4499
450026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4501
4502
4503Exim version 4.41
4504-----------------
4505
4506 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4507 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4508 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4509 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4510 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4511 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4512
4513
4514Exim version 4.40
4515-----------------
4516
4517 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4518 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4519
4520 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4521 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4522 socklen_t is defined.
4523
4524 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4525 always exist.
4526
4527 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4528 configured.
4529
4530 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4531 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4532 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4533 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4534 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4535
4536 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4537 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4538 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4539 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4540
4541 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4542 of flapping under certain conditions.
4543
4544 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4545 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4546 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4547
4548 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4549
455010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4551
455211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4553 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4554 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4555 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4556
455712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4558 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4559 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4560 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4561 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4562 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4563 preserved with the message after it was received.
4564
456513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4566 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4567 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4568 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4569 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4570 test suite worked just fine.
4571
457214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4573 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4574 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4575
457615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4577 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4578 string.
4579
458016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4581 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4582 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4583 does not fully solve it.
4584
458517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4586 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4587 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4588 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4589 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4590
459118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4592 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4593 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4594
459519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4596 string, for example:
4597
4598 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4599
4600 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4601 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4602 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4603 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4604 the routers could not see them.
4605
460620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4607 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4608
460921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4610 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4611 output).
4612
461322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4614 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4615 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4616 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4617 that needed quoting.
4618
461923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4620 was not being matched caselessly.
4621
462224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4623 backslashes.
4624
462525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4626 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4627 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4628 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4629 when use_sender is false.
4630
463126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4632
463327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4634
463528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4636
463729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4638 the configuration file.
4639
464030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4641 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4642
464331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4644
464532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4646 bytes in the message body.
4647
464833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4649 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4650 delivery.
4651
465234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4653
465435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4655
465636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4657 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4658 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4659 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4660 another IP address.
4661
4662
4663Exim version 4.34
4664-----------------
4665
4666 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4667 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4668
4669 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4670 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4671 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4672 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4673 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4674
4675 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4676 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4677
4678 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4679 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4680 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4681
4682 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4683 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4684 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4685
4686 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4687 for routers.
4688
4689 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4690 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4691 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4692 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4693 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4694 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4695 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4696
4697
4698Exim version 4.33
4699-----------------
4700
4701 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4702 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4703 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4704 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4705 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4706 default (and expected) setting.
4707
4708 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4709 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4710 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4711 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4712
4713 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4714 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4715
4716 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4717 in domain lists.
4718
4719 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4720 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4721 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4722 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4723 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4724 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4725
4726 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4727 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4728 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4729
4730 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4731 part (NOT match_host).
4732
4733 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4734
4735 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4736 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4737 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4738 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4739 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4740 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4741 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4742 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4743 the same named file.
4744
474510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4746 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4747 when Exim is built.
4748
474911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4750 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4751 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4752 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4753 a host name.
4754
475512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4756 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4757 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4758
475913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4760
476114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4762
476315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4764
476516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4766 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4767
476817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4769 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4770 before starting the TLS session.
4771
477218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4773
477419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4775 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4776
477720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4778 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4779 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4780 colon in the middle).
4781
4782
4783Exim version 4.32
4784-----------------
4785
4786 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4787 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4788 multiple configurations are in use.
4789
4790 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4791 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4792 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4793 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4794 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4795 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4796
4797 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4798 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4799
4800 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4801 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4802 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4803
4804 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4805 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4806 occurs.
4807
4808 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4809 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4810
4811 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4812
4813 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4814 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4815
4816 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4817
4818 -prval:sval
4819
4820 is equivalent to
4821
4822 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4823
4824 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4825 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4826 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4827 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4828 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4829
483010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4831 Exim's behaviour:
4832
4833 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4834 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4835 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4836 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4837 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4838 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4839
4840 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4841 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4842 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4843 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4844 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4845 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4846 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4847 string.
4848
4849 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4850 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4851 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4852 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4853 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4854
485511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4856
485712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4858 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4859 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4860
486113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4862
486314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4864 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4865 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4866 information.
4867
486815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4869 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4870
487116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4872 Three changes have been made:
4873
4874 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4875 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4876 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4877 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4878 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4879
4880 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4881 been restored.
4882
4883 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4884 the modified behaviour.
4885
4886
4887Exim version 4.31
4888-----------------
4889
4890 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4891 Larry Rosenman.
4892
4893 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4894 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4895
4896 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4897 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4898 try to track down a specific problem.
4899
4900 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4901 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4902 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4903
4904 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4905 warning.
4906
4907 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4908 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4909 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4910 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4911 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4912 some earlier ones do not.
4913
4914 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4915
4916 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4917 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4918 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4919 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4920 address literals are enabled, of course).
4921
4922 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4923
492410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4925 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4926 by a command such as
4927
4928 exim -f "" ...
4929
4930 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4931
493211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4933
493412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4935 remained set. It is now erased.
4936
493713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4938 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4939
494014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4941 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4942 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4943 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4944 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4945 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4946 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4947 appropriate error code.
4948
494915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4950 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4951 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4952 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4953 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4954 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4955
495616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4957 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4958 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4959
496017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4961 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4962 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4963 terminate the header.
4964
496518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4966 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4967 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4968
496919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4970 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4971 (4.30/29). In particular:
4972
4973 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4974 imposed.
4975
4976 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4977 to write a maildirsize file.
4978
4979 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4980 the transport, the new value overrides.
4981
4982 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4983 count.
4984
498520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4986 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4987 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4988 space or a tab.
4989
499021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4991 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4992 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4993 the fallback hosts.
4994
499522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4996 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4997 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4998
499923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5000 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5001 using a union.
5002
500324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5004 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5005 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5006
500725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5008
500926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5010
501127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5012
501328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5014 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5015 become corrupted.
5016
501729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5018 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5019 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5020 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5021 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5022 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5023 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5024 too great.
5025
502630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5027 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5028 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5029 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5030 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5031 incorrectly.
5032
503331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5034 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5035 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5036 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5037 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5038 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5039 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5040 cached value only when the same options are set.
5041
504232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5043
504433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5045 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5046 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5047 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5048 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5049
505034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5051 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5052 it is clearly obsolete.
5053
505435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5055 transport.
5056
505736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5058 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5059 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5060 times.
5061
506237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5063 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5064 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5065 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5066 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5067
506838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5069 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5070 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5071 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5072
507339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5074
5075 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5076
5077 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5078 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5079 2^31.
5080
508140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5082 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5083 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5084 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5085 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5086 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5087 $localpart_data.
5088
508941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5090 with the -f command-line option.
5091
509242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5093 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5094 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5095 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5096 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5097 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5098
509943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5100 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5101 line.
5102
510344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5104 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5105 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5106 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5107 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5108 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5109 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5110 buffer is too small.
5111
511245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5113 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5114
511546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5116 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5117 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5118 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5119 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5120 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5121 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5122 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5123 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5124
512547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5126 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5127 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5128
512948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5130 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5131 ACL").
5132
513349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5134 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5135 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5136 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5137 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5138
513950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5140 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5141 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5142 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5143 is set.
5144
514551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5146
514752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5148
514953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5150 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5151
515254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5153 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5154 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5155
515655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5157 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5158 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5159 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5160 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5161
516256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5163 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5164 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5165 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5166 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5167 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5168 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5169
517057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5171 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5172 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5173 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5174 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5175 the test of how many are available.
5176
517758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5178 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5179 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5180 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5181 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5182 new message is started.
5183
518459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5185 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5186
518760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5188 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5189
519061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5191 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5192 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5193 is no long logged.
5194
519562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5196 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5197 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5198 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5199 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5200 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5201 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5202
520363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5204 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5205 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5206 interpreted as octal.
5207
520864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5209 setting.
5210
521165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5212 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5213 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5214 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5215 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5216 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5217
521866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5219 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5220 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5221 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5222
5223 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5224 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5225 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5226 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5227
5228 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5229 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5230 is a bug fix.
5231
5232 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5233 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5234
523567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5236
523768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5238 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5239 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5240 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5241
524269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5243 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5244 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5245 supplied", which is not helpful.
5246
524770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5248 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5249 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5250
525171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5252 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5253 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5254 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5255 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5256 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5257 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5258 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5259
526072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5261 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5262 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5263 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5264 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5265
526673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5267 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5268 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5269 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5270 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5271 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5272
527374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5274 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5275 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5276
527775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5278
527976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5280 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5281 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5282 variables.
5283
528477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5285
528678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5287 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5288 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5289 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5290 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5291 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5292 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5293 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5294
529579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5296 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5297 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5298 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5299 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5300
530180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5302 Haardt.
5303
530481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5305 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5306 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5307 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5308 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5309 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5310 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5311 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5312 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5313
5314
5315Exim version 4.30
5316-----------------
5317
5318 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5319 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5320 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5321
5322 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5323 fixed.
5324
5325 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5326 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5327 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5328
5329 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5330 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5331 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5332 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5333 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5334 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5335
5336 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5337 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5338 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5339 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5340 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5341 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5342 the Exim test suite.
5343
5344 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5345 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5346 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5347 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5348
5349 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5350 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5351 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5352 specify it in this variable.
5353
5354 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5355 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5356 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5357 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5358
5359 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5360 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5361 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5362 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5363
5364 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5365 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5366 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5367 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5368 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5369
5370 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5371
537210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5373 they are logged.
5374
537511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5376 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5377 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5378 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5379 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5380
538112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5382 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5383
538413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5385 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5386 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5387 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5388 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5389
539014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5391 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5392
539315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5394 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5395 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5396
539716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5398 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5399
540017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5401 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5402
540318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5404 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5405 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5406
540719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5408 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5409
541020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5411 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5412 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5413 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5414
541521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5416
541722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5418 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5419 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5420 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5421
542223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5423
542424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5425 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5426
542725. Added .include_if_exists.
5428
542926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5430 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5431 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5432 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5433 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5434 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5435
543627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5437
543828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5439 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5440 this.
5441
544229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5443
544430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5445 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5446
5447 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5448 550 Sender verify failed
5449
5450 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5451 the final line of the response.
5452
545331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5454 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5455 all other user lookups.
5456
545732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5458 delivery time.
5459
546033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5461 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5462 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5463 result into an int without checking.
5464
546534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5466 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5467 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5468
546935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5470 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5471 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5472 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5473
547436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5475 correctly.
5476
547737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5478 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5479
548038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5481 to the empty sender.
5482
548339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5484 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5485 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5486 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5487 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5488 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5489 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5490 panic log.
5491
549240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5493 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5494 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5495 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5496 used.
5497
549841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5499 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5500
550142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5502 timestamps.
5503
550443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5505 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5506
550744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5508
550945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5510 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5511 logs.
5512
551346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5514 as soon as it is encountered.
5515
551647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5517
551848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5519 rewritten to "<>".
5520
552149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5522 recognizes a tab character.
5523
552450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5525 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5526 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5527 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5528
552951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5530
553152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5532 crash.
5533
553453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5535
553654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5537
553855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5539 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5540 2822.
5541
554256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5543 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5544 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5545 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5546 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5547
554857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5549 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5550
555158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5552 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5553 list (.included file names were always shown).
5554
555559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5556 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5557 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5558 root at that time.
5559
556060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5561 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5562
556361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5564
556562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5566
556763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5568
556964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5570 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5571 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5572 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5573 failures to open the logs.
5574
557565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5576 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5577 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5578 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5579 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5580 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5581 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5582
5583
5584Exim version 4.24
5585-----------------
5586
5587 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5588 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5589 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5590 change 4.23/1.
5591
5592 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5593 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5594 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5595
5596 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5597 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5598 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5599
5600 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5601 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5602 causing some misleading effects.
5603
5604 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5605 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5606 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5607
5608 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5609 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5610 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5611 queue-runner function directly.
5612
5613
5614Exim version 4.23
5615-----------------
5616
5617 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5618 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5619
5620 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5621 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5622 was always written to the default place.
5623
5624 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5625 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5626 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5627
5628 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5629
5630 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5631
5632 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5633 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5634 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5635
5636 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5637 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5638 must start.
5639
5640 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5641 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5642 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5643
5644 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5645 command line option is disabled.
5646
5647 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5648 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5649
5650 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5651
5652 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5653
5654 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5655 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5656
565710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5658
565911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5660 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5661 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5662 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5663 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5664 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5665
566612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5667 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5668 timeout.
5669
567013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5671 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5672
567314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5674 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5675
567615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5677 received was valid base64.
5678
567916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5680 name of the variable that was being set.
5681
568217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5683
568418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5685 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5686 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5687 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5688 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5689 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5690
569119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5692
569320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5694 nor realm was specified.
5695
569621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5697 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5698 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5699 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5700
570122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5702 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5703 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5704
570523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5706 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5707 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5708
570924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5710 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5711 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5712 some systems use these upper case variants.
5713
571425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5715 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5716 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5717 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5718
571926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5720
572127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5722 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5723
572428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5725 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5726 expansion variable.
5727
572829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5729
573030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5731 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5732 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5733 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5734
573531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5736 using it.
5737
573832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5739 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5740 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5741
574233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5743 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5744
574534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5746 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5747 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5748 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5749
575035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5751 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5752 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5753
575436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5755
575637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5757 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5758 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5759 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5760 aborted.
5761
576238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5763 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5764 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5765
576639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5767
576840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5769 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5770
577141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5772 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5773
577442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5775 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5776 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5777 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5778 when emails are that large.
5779
5780
5781
5782Exim version 4.22
5783-----------------
5784
5785 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5786 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5787
5788 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5789 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5790 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5791
5792 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5793 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5794 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5795
5796 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5797 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5798 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5799 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5800 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5801
5802 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5803 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5804 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5805 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5806 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5807 ever.
5808
5809 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5810 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5811 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5812 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5813 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5814 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5815 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5816 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5817 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5818 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5819 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5820 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5821 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5822 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5823
5824 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5825 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5826 parameterised it.
5827
5828 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5829 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5830 error should be diagnosed.
5831
5832 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5833 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5834 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5835 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5836 appeared instead of "NULL".
5837
583810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5839 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5840 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5841 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5842 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5843 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5844 proceeds).
5845
5846 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5847 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5848 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5849
5850
5851Exim version 4.21
5852-----------------
5853
5854 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5855 or receiver verification errors.
5856
5857 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5858 name.
5859
5860 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5861 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5862 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5863 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5864
5865 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5866 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5867 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5868 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5869 shouldn't happen again.
5870
5871 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5872 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5873 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5874
5875 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5876 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5877
5878 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5879
5880 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5881 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5882
5883 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5884 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5885 RFC.
5886
588710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5888 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5889 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5890
589111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5892 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5893 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5894 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5895
589612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5897 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5898 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5899 to define what should happen).
5900
590113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5902 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5903 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5904
590514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5906
590715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5908
590916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5910 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5911
591217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5913 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5914 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5915 structure in all cases.
5916
5917 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5918 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5919 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5920 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5921
592218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5923 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5924 domain name.
5925
592619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5927 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5928
592920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5930 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5931
593221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5933 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5934 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5935
593622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5937 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5938 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5939
594023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5941 the book and for uniformity.
5942
594324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5944
594525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5946 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5947 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5948 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5949 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5950 non-existent command as the problem.
5951
595226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5953 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5954 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5955
595627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5957
595828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5959 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5960 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5961
596229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5963 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5964 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5965 timestamps using strftime().
5966
596730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5968 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5969
597032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5971 transport-time rewrites.
5972
597333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5974 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5975 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5976 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5977
597834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5979 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5980
598135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5982 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5983 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5984 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5985 comma and a space.
5986
598736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5988 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5989 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5990 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5991 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5992 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5993 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5994
599537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5996 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5997 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5998 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5999 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6000
600138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6002 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6003 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6004 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6005 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6006 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6007 remaining text gets split now.
6008
600939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6010 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6011 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6012 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6013
601440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6015 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6016 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6017 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6018 $return_path.
6019
602041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6021 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6022 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6023 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6024 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6025 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6026 passed through if needed.
6027
602842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6029 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6030 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6031 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6032 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6033 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6034
603543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6036 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6037 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6038 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6039 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6040
604144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6042 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6043 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6044 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6045 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6046
604745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6048 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6049 noticed.
6050
605146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6052 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6053 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6054 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6055 mayhem of various kinds.
6056
605747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6058 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6059 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6060 the right test for positive values.
6061
606248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6063 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6064 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6065 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6066 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6067 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6068 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6069 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6070 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6071 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6072 envelope.
6073
607449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6075 module.
6076
607750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6078 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6079 forbidding it.
6080
608151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6082 the existing equality matching.
6083
608452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6085 dealing with inode numbers.
6086
608753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6088 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6089 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6090
609154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6092 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6093 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6094 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6095 local_scan().
6096
609755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6098 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6099 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6100 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6101 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6102 relay addresses has also been removed.
6103
610456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6105
610657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6107 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6108 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6109
611058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6111 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6112 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6113 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6114 processing applies to CR:
6115
6116 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6117 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6118
6119 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6120 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6121 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6122 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6123
612459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6125 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6126 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6127
612860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6129 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6130 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6131 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6132 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6133 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6134 arisen.
6135
613661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6137 program routers.
6138
613962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6140 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6141 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6142 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6143 adds:
6144
6145 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6146
6147 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6148
6149 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6150
615163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6152 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6153 not considered personal.
6154
615564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6156
615765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6158
615966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6160
616167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6162 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6163 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6164 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6165 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6166 header lines, and spool format errors.
6167
616868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6169 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6170 for more flexibility.
6171
617269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6173 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6174 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6175
617670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6177 Sabourenkov.
6178
617971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6180 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6181 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6182 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6183 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6184 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6185 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6186 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6187 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6188
618972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6190 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6191 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6192 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6193 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6194 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6195 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6196
619773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6198 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6199 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6200
620174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6202 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6203 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6204 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6205 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6206 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6207 instead of killing the process with assert().
6208
620975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6210 than Unicode encoding.
6211
621276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6213 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6214 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6215 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6216
621777. Added process_log_path.
6218
621978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6220 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6221
622279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6223 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6224
622580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6226 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6227 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6228
622981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6230 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6231 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6232 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6233 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6234 were applied:
6235
6236 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6237 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6238 as invalid.
6239
624082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6241 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6242 they will be used during message reception.
6243
6244
6245Exim version 4.20
6246-----------------
6247
6248The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6249
6250****