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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18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.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
610ff438 28
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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.
4e71661f 41
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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
fd4d8871 56JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 57 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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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.
fd4d8871 63
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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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67JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
68 now have the list separator specified.
69
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70JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
71 option values.
72
82c0c8ea 73JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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74 under OpenSSL.
75
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76JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
77
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78JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
79 rather than the verbs used.
80
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81JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
82 from 255 to 1024 chars.
83
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84JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
85
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86HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
87 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 88
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89JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
90 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
91
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93Exim version 4.85
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95TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
96 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
97 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
98 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
99 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
100 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
101 the script parsing/test process like normal.
102
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103TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
104 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
105 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
106 function when detected.
107
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108JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
109 cause callback expansion.
110
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111TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
112 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
113 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
114 instead of bool when processing it.
115
0f06b4f2 116JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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117 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
118
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119JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
120
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121JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
122
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123TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
124
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125TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
126 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 127
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128JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
129 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
130 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
131 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
132 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
133 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
134
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135JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
136 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
137 exceeded it.
138
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139JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
140 version 3.3.6 or later.
141
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142JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
143 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
144 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 145 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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146 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
147 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
148 option is defined.
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150TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
151 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
152
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153JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
154 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
155 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
156 matches.
157
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158JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
159 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
160 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
161
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162JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
163 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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164
165JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
166 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
167 syntax errors.
168
3394b36a 169JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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170
171JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
172 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
173
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174TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
175 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
176 tarball.
177
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178JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
179
180JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
181 Bug 1561.
182
183JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
184 output list separator was used.
185
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187Exim version 4.84
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189TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
190 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
191 return.
1f0ebb98 192
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193JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
194 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
195
196JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
197
198TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 199 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 200
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204
205TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
206
207 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
208 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
209 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
210 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
211 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
212 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
213
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214TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
215 utilities have not been installed.
216
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217JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
218 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
219
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220TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
221 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
222
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223TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
224 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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225 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
226 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 227
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228JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
229
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230TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
231 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
232
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233PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
234 not dns_use_dnssec.
235
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236JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
237
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238TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
239 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
240 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
241
8ddef691 242TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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243 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
244 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
245 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
246 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 247 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 248
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249JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
250
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251JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
252 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
253
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254JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
255 failed delivery.
256
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257JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
258
511a6c14 259JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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260
261JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
262 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 263
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264JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
265 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
266
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267TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
268
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269JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
270
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271JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
272 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
273
274 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
275 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
276 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
277
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278TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
279 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
280 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
281 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 282
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283JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
284
8c51eead 285JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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286 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
287 lookup).
8c51eead 288
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289TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
290 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
291 Schlichting.
35aba663 292
fd3b6a4a 293JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 294 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 295
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296TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
297 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
298
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299JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
300
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301TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
302 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
303 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
304
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305JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
306 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
307
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308JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
309 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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310 hosts_request_ocsp.
311
ed3bba5f 312JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 313 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 314 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 315
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316JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
317
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318TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
319 Christian Aistleitner.
320
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321JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
322
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323TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
324 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
325
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326JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
327 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
328
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329JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
330 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
331
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332TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
333 support and error reporting did not work properly.
334
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335TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
336 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
337
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338TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
339 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
340 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
341
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342JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
343
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344PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
345 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
346 Jasper Wallace.
347
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348JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
349
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350TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
351 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
352 CVE-2014-2972
353
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357
358PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
359
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360PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
361 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
362
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363PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
364 by GnuTLS.
365
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366PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
367 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
368 routines.
369
13363eba 370PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 371
66645890 372PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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373 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
374 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
375 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
376 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 377
a3fb9793 378PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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379 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
380 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
381 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 382 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 383 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 384
d27f98fe 385TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 386
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387TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
388
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389TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
390 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
391
ae0e32ee 392TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 393 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 394 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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396TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 397
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398TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
399
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400TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
401 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
402
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403JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
404
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405JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
406
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407PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
408
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409NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
410 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 411
585121e2 412JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 413
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414PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
415 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
416 function.
a5f239e4 417
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418PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
419 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
420
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421JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
422 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
423 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 424
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425JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
426
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427JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
428
ea722490 429JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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430 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
431
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432JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
433 Bugzilla 884.
434
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435JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
436 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
437
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438JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
439 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
440
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441PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
442 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 443 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 444
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445JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
446 authenticators.
447
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448JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
449 for control.
450
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451PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
452
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453PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
454 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
455 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
456 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
457
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458TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
459
460 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
461 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
462 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
463 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
464 the retry rules.
465
466 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
467 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
468 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
469
470 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
471 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
472 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
473 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
474
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475 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
476 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
477 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
478 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
479 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
480 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
481 delivery, as in LMTP.
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482
483 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
484 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
485
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486TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
487
488 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
489
490 Resent-From: f
491
492 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
493 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
494 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
495 username as equal to the username.
496
497 This change corrects that bug.
498
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499GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
500 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
501 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
502
eb505532
TF
503TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
504
14c7b357
PP
505PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
506 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
507 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
508 NULL dereference and crash.
509
94eaf700
PP
510JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
511
6f5a440a
PP
512PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
513 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
514 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
515
514ee161
SC
516SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
517
fd98a5c6
JH
518JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
519 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
520 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
521 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
522 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
523 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
524 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
525 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
526 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
527 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
528 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
529
035c7f1e
PP
530PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
531 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
532
ff284120
PP
533PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
534 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
535 Bugzilla 880.
536
26e72755
PP
537PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
538 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
539 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
540 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
541 an empty string is now equivalent.
542
0fbd9bff
PP
543PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
544 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
545 not performing validation itself.
546
700d22f3
PP
547PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
548 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
549
fcc8e047
JH
550JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
551 Bugzilla 321, 823.
552
7142daca
PP
553TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
554
8c020188
PP
555PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
556 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
557 other false fix of the same issue.
558 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
559 Bugzilla 1363.
560
d13cdd30
PP
561PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
562 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
563
e2fbf4a2
PP
564PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
565 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
566 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
567
f4c1088b
PP
568PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
569 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
570 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
571
c5c2182f
PP
572TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
573
73431ca9
JH
574JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
575
2d07a215
TL
576TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
577 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
578
a30a8861
TL
579TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
580 Alexander Miroch.
581
33382dd9
TL
582TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
583 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
584 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
585 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
586 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 587
046172e6
TL
588TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
589 the src/util/ subdirectory.
590
581d7bee 591TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 592 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
593 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
594
595TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
596 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
597 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
598 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
599
237b2cf2
TL
600TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
601
9fc5a352
TL
602TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
603 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
604 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 605
b10e4ec2
TL
606TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
607
e2cebd74
TL
608TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
609 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
610 interaction.
611
612TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
613 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
614
2519e60d
TL
615TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
616 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
617
e78e6ecf 618
4263f395
PP
619Exim version 4.80.1
620-------------------
621
622PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
623 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 624 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 625
ea722490 626
b1770b6e 627Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
628-----------------
629
630PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
631 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
632 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
633
23c7e742
NM
634NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
635
b322aac8
NM
636NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
637 improved.
638
4a891427
NM
639NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
640
c1e794ba 641PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 642
97753960
PP
643PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
644
645PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
646 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
647
df6303fa
PP
648PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
649 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
650
7e6a8985
PP
651PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
652 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
653
f1e05cc7 654PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
655 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
656 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 657
4c287009
PP
658PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
659
b98bb9ac
PP
660PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
661 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
662
4a6a987a
PP
663PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
664
c45dd180 665PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 666
7db8d074
PP
667PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
668 non-compliant senders.
669 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
670
eae0036b 671NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
672 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
673 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
674
dec5017e
PP
675PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
676 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
677 in spool file corruption.
678
c80c5570
PP
679PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
680 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
681 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
682 "Got SSL error 2".
683
076b11e2
PP
684TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
685 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
686 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
687
5407bfff
JH
688JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
689 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
690
9e45c72b
PP
691JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
692
e74376d8
PP
693PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
694 diagnostics.
695 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
696
da3ad30d
PP
697PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
698 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
699 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
700
7be682ca
PP
701PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
702 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
703 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
704 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 705
ef840681
PP
706PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
707 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
708
5bfb4cdf
PP
709PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
710 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
711 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
712 resolver implementation change.
713
c6e95d22
PP
714PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
715 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
716
9cbad13b
PP
717PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
718
9ee44efb
PP
719PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
720
6a6084f8
PP
721PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
722 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
723
12dd53c7
PP
724PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
725 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
726
9e45c72b 727JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
728 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
729
17c76198
PP
730PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
731 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
732 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
733 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 734 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 735
53947857 736PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 737
eae0036b 738PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
739 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
740 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 741
9e45c72b 742JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 743
7390e768
PP
744PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
745 read-only, out of scope).
746 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
747
08488c86
PP
748PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
749 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
750 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
751 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
752
6475bd82
PP
753PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
754
81f91683
PP
755PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
756 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
757 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
758 real issues in debug logging.
759
5779e6aa
PP
760PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
761 assignment on my part. Fixed.
762
3375e053
PP
763PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
764 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
765 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
766
767PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
768 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
769 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
770 problems.
3375e053 771
9d26b8c0
PP
772PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
773 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
774
57eb9e91 775PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
776 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
777 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
778 needs to override this, it can.
779
16880d1a
PP
780PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
781 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
782 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
783
a799883d
PP
784PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
785 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
786 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
787 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
788
3ecab157 789PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 790
0599f9cf 791
867fcbf5
PP
792Exim version 4.77
793-----------------
794
795PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
796 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
797
f1a29782
TF
798TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
799
ab42bd23
TK
800TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
801 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 802
0ca0cf52
TF
803TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
804 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
805
921b12ca
TF
806TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
807 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
808 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
809
810 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
811 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
812 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
813 not safe for signals.
814
815 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
816 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
817 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
818 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
819 exiwhat.
820
c99ce5c9
TF
821TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
822
823 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
824 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
825 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
826 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
827 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
828
829 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
830 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
831 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
832 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
833 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
834 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
835
836 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
837 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
838 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
839 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
840
841 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
842 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
843 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
844 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
845
846 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
847 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
848 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
849 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
850 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
851 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
852 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
853 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
854 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
855
856 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
857 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
858 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
859 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
860
861 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
862 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
863 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
864 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
865 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
866 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
867 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
868 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
869 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
870 details in the main documentation.
871
3634fc25
TF
872TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
873
792e8a19
TF
874TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
875
5901f0ab
TF
876TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
877 repository when doing development or release builds.
878
7f2a2a43
PP
879PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
880 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 881
061b7ebd
PP
882PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
883 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
884 Bugzilla 97.
885
e12f8c32
PP
886PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
887
9e949f00 888PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
889 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
890
891PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
892 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 893
555ae6af 894PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
895 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
896
897PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
898 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 899
6f7fe114
PP
900PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
901 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
902
c566dd90
PP
903PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
904 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
905 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
906 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 907
d6cc7c78 908PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
909 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
910 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
911
0d0e4455
PP
912PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
913
3399bb60 914PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
915
916PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
917 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
918
0ca0cf52 919
10906672
PP
920Exim version 4.76
921-----------------
922
923PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
924
754a0503
PP
925PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
926 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
927
c0c7b2da
PP
928PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
929
e97d1f08
PP
930PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
931
084c1d8c
PP
932PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
933 Bugzilla 1098.
934
4e7ee012
PP
935PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
936 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 937
c8d52a00
PP
938TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
939 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
940
54e7ce4a
PP
941PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
942 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
943
5ee6f336
PP
944PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
945 Bugzilla 1104.
946
c8d52a00 947TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
948 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
949
950TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
951 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
952 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
953 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
954
955PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
956 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 957
10906672 958
aa097c4c
NM
959Exim version 4.75
960-----------------
961
4c9ef03a 962NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
963 Bugzilla 1073
964
7f3d9eff
TF
965TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
966 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
967 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
968
159f52d2
TF
969TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
970 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
971
0cc9542a
PP
972PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
973 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
974 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
975
f7274286
PP
976PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
977 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
978
7b797365
PP
979PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
980 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
981
caacae52
NM
982NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
983 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
984
09dcaba9
NM
985NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
986 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
987
bc19a55b
PP
988PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
989 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 990
bd4c9759
NM
991NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
992 Fixes bug 943.
993
b72aab72
PP
994PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
995 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
996
2fe76745
PP
997PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
998 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
999
76aa570c
PP
1000PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1001 SQL string expansion failure details.
1002 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1003
f1e5fef5
PP
1004PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1005 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1006
4d805ee9
PP
1007PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1008 extern declarations in function scope.
1009 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1010
cd59ab18
PP
1011PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1012 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1013 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1014 a kernel bug).
1015
332f5cf3
PP
1016PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1017 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1018
29cfeb94
PP
1019PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1020 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1021
660242ad
PP
1022PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1023 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1024
bc4bc4c5
PP
1025PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1026 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1027
2e64baa9
NM
1028NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1029 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1030 Dennis Davis.
1031
bddd7526
PP
1032PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1033
6bac1a9a
PP
1034PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1035
552193f0
NM
1036NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1037 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1038
1b587e48
TF
1039TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1040 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1041
aa097c4c 1042
8c07b69f
TF
1043Exim version 4.74
1044-----------------
1045
1046TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1047 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1048
c0ea85ab
TF
1049TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1050 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1051
0761d44e
TF
1052TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1053
0a349494
PP
1054DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1055 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1056 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1057
1058PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1059 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1060 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1061
fea24b2e
PP
1062PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1063 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1064 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1065 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1066
6545de78
PP
1067PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1068 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1069 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1070 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1071
1670ef10
PP
1072PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1073 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1074 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1075 arbitrary files.
1076
c0886197
PP
1077PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1078 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1079
b7487bce
PP
1080PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1081 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1082 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1083 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1084 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1085
8c07b69f 1086
97fd1e48 1087Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1088-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1089
1090PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1091 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1092 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1093
6901c596
PP
1094PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1095 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1096
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1097JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1098
77bb000f
PP
1099PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1100
a29e5231
PP
1101PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1102
ec5a0394 1103PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1104
55c75993
PP
1105PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1106
453a6645 1107PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1108 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1109 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1110 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1111
8544e77a
PP
1112PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1113 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1114 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1115 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1116 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1117
83e029d5
PP
1118PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1119
ed7f7860
PP
1120PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1121
7d9f747b
PP
1122PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1123
4b2241d2
PP
1124PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1125
10385c15
PP
1126PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1127
dbc4b90d
PP
1128PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1129
532be449
PP
1130PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1131
6a8de854 1132PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1133 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1134 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1135
5dc43717
JJ
1136JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1137
1138JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1139 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1140
3346ab01
PP
1141PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1142 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1143
491fab4c
PP
1144PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1145 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1146 Notification from John Horne.
1147
13eb9497
PP
1148PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1149 compatible.
1150
1151PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1152 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1153 it normally works.
1154
7f36d675
DW
1155DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1156 access.
1157
c1d94452
DW
1158DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1159 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1160 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1161
e2f5dc15
DW
1162DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1163 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1164 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1165 configuration file.
1166
cd25e41d
DW
1167DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1168 option (effectively making it always true).
1169
261dc43e
DW
1170DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1171 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1172
fa32850b
DW
1173DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1174 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1175
79d4bc3d
PP
1176PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1177 run-time user, instead of root.
1178
43236f35 1179PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1180 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1181
fb08281f
DW
1182DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1183 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1184 arguments.
3346ab01 1185
74935b98
DW
1186DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1187 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1188 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1189
90b6341f
DW
1190DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1191
57730b52
ML
1192NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1193
66581d1e 1194
465e92cf
JJ
1195Exim version 4.72
1196-----------------
1197
453a6645
PP
1198JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1199 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1200 typos
465e92cf 1201
453a6645
PP
1202JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1203 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1204 (Finput)
edae0343 1205
9bd3e22c
NM
1206NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1207 Patch from Alain Williams
1208
bb576ff7
NM
1209NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1210
5a1a5845
NM
1211NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1212 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1213
981a9fad
NM
1214NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1215 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1216
7fc497ee
NM
1217NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1218
1a41defa
JJ
1219JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1220
a466095c 1221NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1222 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1223
94a6bd0b
NM
1224TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1225
1226TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1227
1228MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1229 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1230 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1231
c1b141a8
NM
1232NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1233 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1234
b26eacf1 1235NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1236 Patch by Simon Arlott
1237
179c5980 1238PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1239 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1240
9bd3e22c 1241
7c6d71af
NM
1242Exim version 4.71
1243-----------------
1244
7d9f747b 1245TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1246
f013fb92
NM
1247NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1248
0eb8eedd
NM
1249NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1250
663ee6d9
NM
1251NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1252
177ebd9b
NM
1253NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1254
7c6d71af 1255
210f147e
NM
1256Exim version 4.70
1257-----------------
1258
cdd3bb85 1259TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1260 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1261
1262TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1263 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1264 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1265
1266TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1267 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1268 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1269
1270TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1271 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1272
210f147e
NM
1273NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1274 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1275 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1276 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1277
deafd5b3
NM
1278NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1279 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1280 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1281
089793a4
TF
1282TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1283
5f16ca82
TF
1284TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1285
dae9d94e 1286NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1287 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1288
7d9f747b 1289NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1290
06864c44
TF
1291TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1292 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1293 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1294 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1295
65a7d8c3 1296NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1297 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1298
23510047 1299TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1300
7d9f747b 1301NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1302
7d8eec3a 1303NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1304 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1305
89dec7b6
TF
1306TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1307 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1308
a99de90c
TF
1309TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1310 that they are available at delivery time.
1311
e2803e40
TF
1312TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1313
7199e1ee
TF
1314TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1315 incoming_port log selectors.
1316
e276e04b
TF
1317TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1318 setting expands to an empty string.
1319
ce552449 1320NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1321 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1322
e765a0f1 1323NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1324 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1325
4f054c63 1326NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1327 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1328
7d9f747b
PP
1329NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1330 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1331
7d9f747b
PP
1332NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1333 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1334
b52bc06e 1335NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1336 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1337
447de4b0
NM
1338NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1339
4c69d561 1340NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1341 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1342
d5c39246 1343NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1344 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1345
0b23848a
TK
1346TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1347
8f3414a1 1348NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1349 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1350
fb6f955d
NM
1351NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1352
1353NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1354
7d9f747b
PP
1355NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1356 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1357
7d9f747b
PP
1358NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1359 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1360
7d9f747b
PP
1361NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1362 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1363
7d9f747b
PP
1364NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1365 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1366
7d9f747b
PP
1367NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1368 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1369
7d9f747b
PP
1370NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1371 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1372
7d9f747b
PP
1373NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1374 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1375
7d9f747b 1376NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1377 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1378
7d9f747b 1379NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1380
7d9f747b
PP
1381NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1382 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1383
7d9f747b 1384NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1385
7d9f747b 1386NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1387
7d9f747b 1388NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1389
7d9f747b 1390NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1391
17792b53 1392NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1393 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1394
7d9f747b
PP
1395NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1396 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1397
91576cec 1398NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1399 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1400
7d9f747b
PP
1401NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1402 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1403
7d9f747b 1404NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1405
7d9f747b 1406NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1407
7d9f747b 1408NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1409
7d9f747b 1410NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1411
deafd5b3 1412
47db1125
NM
1413Exim version 4.69
1414-----------------
1415
4b3504d0
TK
1416TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1417 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1418 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1419
1420 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1421 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1422 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1423 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1424 build errors in sieve.c.
1425
81ea09ca
NM
1426NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1427 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1428 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1429
f13cddcb
SC
1430SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1431
7d9f747b 1432NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1433
7d9f747b 1434NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1435
7d9f747b 1436NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1437
1438
eb4c0de6
PH
1439Exim version 4.68
1440-----------------
1441
1442PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1443
6a3bceb1
PH
1444PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1445 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1446 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1447 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1448 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1449 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1450 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1451 for iplsearch lookups.
1452
1453 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1454 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1455 previously such lookups could never work.
1456
1457 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1458 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1459 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1460
2e30fa9d
TK
1461TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1462 version.
1463
0806a9c5
MH
1464MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1465 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1466 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1467 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1468 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1469 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1470
ae276964
TK
1471TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1472 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1473
0f2cbd1b
MH
1474MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1475 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1476 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1477 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1478 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1479 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1480
2b85bce7
PH
1481PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1482 local_scan API.
1483
93655c46
PH
1484PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1485
6c512171
PH
1486PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1487 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1488 encrypted.
1489
1490PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1491 by clients under certain conditions.
1492
aa6dc513
PH
1493PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1494 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1495
a96603a0
PH
1496PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1497
8f240103
PH
1498PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1499 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1500
1501PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1502
d677b2f2
PH
1503PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1504
d52120f2
PH
1505PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1506
64f2600a
PH
1507PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1508 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1509
8669f003
PH
1510PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1511
a4dc33a8
PH
1512PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1513 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1514
d6a60c0f
PH
1515PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1516
8f128379
PH
1517PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1518
8932dffe
PH
1519PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1520 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1521 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1522 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1523
ddea74fa 1524PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1525 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1526 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1527
ddea74fa 1528PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1529 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1530
ddea74fa
PH
1531PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1532
ce9f225c
PH
1533PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1534
19897d52
PH
1535PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1536
bc64a74d
PH
1537PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1538 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1539 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1540
eb4c0de6 1541
b4ed4da0
PH
1542Exim version 4.67
1543-----------------
1544
22ad45c9
MH
1545MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1546 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1547 Jan Srzednicki.
1548
b4ed4da0
PH
1549PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1550 issue a MAIL command.
1551
431b7361
PH
1552PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1553
1554 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1555
1556 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1557 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1558 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1559 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1560 item. This has been fixed.
1561
1562PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1563 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1564
83da1223
PH
1565PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1566 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1567
54fc8428
PH
1568PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1569 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1570 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1571
34c5e8dd
SC
1572SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1573
bbe15da8
PH
1574PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1575 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1576 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1577 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1578 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1579
0e8a9471
MH
1580MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1581 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1582 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1583
f0872424
PH
1584PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1585 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1586 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1587 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1588
b01dd148
PH
1589PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1590
6bf342e1
PH
1591PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1592
273f34d0
PH
1593PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1594 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1595 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1596 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1597 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1598
cf8b11a5
PH
1599PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1600
41c7c167
PH
1601PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1602 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1603 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1604 values).
1605
9c57cbc0
PH
1606PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1607
f3f065bb
PH
1608PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1609
047bdd8c
PH
1610PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1611
0ce9abe6
PH
1612PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1613
0e22dfd1
PH
1614PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1615
4c590bd1
PH
1616PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1617 no_callout_flush is set.
1618
09945f1e
PH
1619PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1620 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1621 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1622 fixed.
1623
c51b8e75
PH
1624PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1625
e28326d8
PH
1626PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1627 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1628 other ACL rejections are.
1629
75b1493f
PH
1630PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1631 with slight modification.
1632
7c5214ec
PH
1633PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1634 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1635
4311097e
PH
1636PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1637 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1638 connection.
1639
29f89cad
PH
1640PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1641 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1642
5e687460
SC
1643SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1644
c3611384
PH
1645PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1646 expansion side effects.
1647
5a11a7b4
PH
1648PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1649 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1650 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1651 be the same.
1652
0e20aff9
MH
1653MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1654 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1655 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1656
ca86f471
PH
1657PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1658 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1659 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1660 were accidentally chopped off.
1661
a14e5636
PH
1662PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1663 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1664 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1665 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1666 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1667 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1668 pipelining has not been advertised.
1669
ec95d1a6
PH
1670PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1671
42855d71
PH
1672PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1673 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1674 This has been fixed.
1675
57c2c631
PH
1676PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1677 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1678 reported on Solaris.
1679
58c01c94
PH
1680PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1681 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1682 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1683 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1684 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1685 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1686 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1687
dee5a20a
PH
1688PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1689 cpus.
1690
d2ee6114
PH
1691PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1692
b2d5182b
PH
1693PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1694
79749a79
PH
1695PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1696 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1697 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1698 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1699 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1700 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1701
c456d9bb
PH
1702PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1703 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1704 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1705 host_all_ignored option.
1706
cd9868ec
PH
1707PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1708 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1709 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1710 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1711 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1712 is what is supposed to happen).
1713
ebeaf996
PH
1714PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1715 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1716 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1717 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1718 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1719 uses the Exim user.
1720
2679d413
PH
1721PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1722 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1723 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1724 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1725 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1726 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1727 users.
1728
84024b72
PH
1729PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1730
8005d38e
SC
1731SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1732 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1733 (Jez Hancock).
1734 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1735 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1736
3298c6c6
SC
1737SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1738
a43a27c5
PH
1739PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1740
58eb016e 1741PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1742 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1743 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1744 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1745 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1746 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1747 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1748 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1749 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1750 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1751 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1752
b43a74ea
PH
1753PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1754 advertised in response to EHLO.
1755
b4ed4da0 1756
5dd1517f
PH
1757Exim version 4.66
1758-----------------
1759
1760PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1761 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1762
1763 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1764 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1765
1766 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1767 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1768 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1769
1770 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1771 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1772 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1773 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1774 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1775
1776
93cfa765
TK
1777Exim version 4.65
1778-----------------
1779
1780TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1781 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1782 versions. (#438)
1783
d6066548
MH
1784MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1785 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1786 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1787
4362ff0d
PH
1788PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1789 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1790 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1791 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1792 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1793 rather than extend the field.
1794
93cfa765 1795
944e9e9c
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1796Exim version 4.64
1797-----------------
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TK
1799TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1800 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1801 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1802 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1803 these files.
1804
1805TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1806 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1807 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1808
1809TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1810 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1811 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1812
1813TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1814 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1815 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1816 in the field name.
1817
2b1c6e3a
PH
1818PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1819 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1820 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1821 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1822 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1823 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1824 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1825 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1826 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1827 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1828 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1829
1f872c80
PH
1830PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1831 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1832
1833PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1834 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1835 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1836 ignores EPIPE as well.
1837
d203e649
PH
1838PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1839 (quoted-printable decoding).
1840
cc2ed8f7 1841PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1842 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1843
ddfcd446
PH
1844PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1845
d45b1de8
PH
1846PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1847
1848PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1849
38a0a95f 1850PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1851 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1852
a2405d83
JJ
1853JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1854 in 4.64-PH/09.
1855
1856JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1857 miscellaneous code fixes
1858
6ea85e9a
PH
1859PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1860 rejections.
1861
26da7e20
PH
1862PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1863 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1864 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1865 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1866 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1867 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1868 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1869 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1870
14aa5a05 1871PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1872 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1873 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1874 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1875 function.
1876 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1877 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1878 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1879 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1880 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1881 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1882 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1883 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1884 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1885
ff75a1f7
PH
1886PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1887 decoding.
1888
e6f6568e
PH
1889PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1890 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1891 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1892 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1893 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1894 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1895 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1896 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1897
d6f6e0dc
PH
1898PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1899 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1900 list.
1901
322050c2
PH
1902PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1903 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1904 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1905 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1906 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1907 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1908 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1909 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1910 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1911 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1912 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1913 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1914 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1915
08955dd3
PH
1916PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1917 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1918 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1919 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1920 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1921 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1922 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1923
1eccaa59
PH
1924PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1925 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1926 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1927 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1928 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1929 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1930 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1931 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1932 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1933 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1934
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PH
1935PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1936 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1937 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1938 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1939 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1940
411ef850
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1941PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1942 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1943 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1944 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1945 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1946 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1947 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1948
7befa435
PH
1949PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1950 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1951 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1952 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1953 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1954 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1955 been verified.
1956
48da4259 1957PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1958 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1959 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1960 and authorization.)
1961
48da4259
PH
1962PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1963 if any retry times were supplied.
1964
d1d5595c
PH
1965PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1966 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1967 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1968
0ef732d9
PH
1969PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1970
328895cc
PH
1971PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1972
fd700877
PH
1973PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1974 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1975 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1976 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1977 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1978 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1979
8dce1a6f
PH
1980PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1981 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1982
17af4a17
PH
1983PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1984 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1985 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1986
1987PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1988 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1989 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1990 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1991 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1992 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1993 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1994 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1995 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1996
1997 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1998 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1999 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2000 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2001 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2002 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2003 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2004 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2005 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2006
2007 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2008 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2009 hammering the server.
2010
c1114884
PH
2011PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2012 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2013
7a0743eb
PH
2014PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2015
0d85fa3f
PH
2016PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2017 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2018 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2019
1bf43b78
PH
2020PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2021 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2022 one case where this was not true.
2023
520de300
PH
2024PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2025 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2026 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2027 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2028 fails.
2029
48c7f9e2
PH
2030PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2031 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2032 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2033 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2034 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2035 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2036 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2037 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2038 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2039 smtp transport.
2040
99ea1c86
PH
2041PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2042 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2043 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2044 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2045
a2042e78
PH
2046PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2047 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2048
4fbcfc2e
PH
2049PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2050 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2051 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2052
aa41d2de
PH
2053PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2054
af561417
PH
2055PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2056
3cc66b45
PH
2057PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2058
194cc0e4
PH
2059PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2060 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2061 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2062 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2063
a401ddaa
PH
2064PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2065 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2066
4e88a19f
PH
2067PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2068 be meaningful with "accept".
2069
d7d7b289
SC
2070SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2071 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2072
2073SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2074 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2075 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2076
2077SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2078 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2079 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2080 there is data to show.
2081 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2082
2083SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2084 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2085 as well as the number of messages.
2086
2087SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2088 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2089 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2090
2091SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2092 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2093 have a flag are now skipped.
2094
2095SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2096 Added the -emptyok flag.
2097
2098SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2099 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2100
0ea2a468
JJ
2101JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2102 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2103 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2104
2105JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2106 match 4.64-PH/13
2107
2108JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2109 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2110
2111JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2112
2113JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2114 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2115
8a10f5a4
PH
2116PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2117
30e18802
PH
2118PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2119 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2120 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2121 contravention of the specifications.
2122
55728a4f
PH
2123PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2124 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2125 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2126
d7837193
PH
2127PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2128 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2129 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2130
87054a31
PH
2131PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2132
ea2c01d2
MH
2133MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2134 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2135 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2136 some point in the past.
2137
e4fa6968
PH
2138PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2139 transport during callout processing was broken.
2140
56f5d9bd
PH
2141PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2142 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2143
922e1c28
PH
2144PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2145 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2146
21eb6e72
PH
2147PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2148 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2149
a0540757
PH
2150PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2151
944e9e9c 2152
478be7b0
SC
2153Exim version 4.63
2154-----------------
2155
2156SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2157 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2158
2159SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2160 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2161 there is data to show.
2162 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2163
2164SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2165 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2166
2b965a65
TF
2167TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2168 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2169
45b91596
PH
2170TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2171 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2172
c59f5781
TF
2173TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2174 submissions from trusted users.
2175
90fc3069
TF
2176TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2177 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2178
6083aca0
TF
2179TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2180 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2181 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2182 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2183 there is now a framework to start from.
2184
765b530f
PH
2185PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2186 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2187 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2188
4e167a8c
PH
2189PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2190
4608d683
PH
2191PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2192
b8dc3e4a
PH
2193PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2194
5418e93b
PH
2195PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2196 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2197 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2198
b4a9bda2
PH
2199PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2200 libradius.
2201
45b91596
PH
2202PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2203 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2204 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2205
5547e2c5
PH
2206PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2207 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2208 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2209 its arguments.
2210
dbcef0ea
PH
2211PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2212 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2213 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2214 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2215 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2216
25257489
PH
2217PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2218 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2219
c816d124
PH
2220PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2221
a9ccd69a
PH
2222PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2223 operations in malware.c.
2224
75fa1910
PH
2225PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2226 signatures.
2227
a7d7aa58
PH
2228PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2229 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2230 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2231 all.
2232
42119b09
PH
2233PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2234 statements to "add_header".
2235
41609df5
PH
2236PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2237 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2238
a5bd321b
PH
2239PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2240 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2241 latter.
2242
e85a7ad5 2243PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2244 so that it is now:
2245
e85a7ad5
PH
2246 ${if or { \
2247 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2248 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2249 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2250 }{no}{yes}}
2251
e85a7ad5
PH
2252 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2253 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2254
d8fe1c03
PH
2255PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2256 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2257
16282d2b
PH
2258PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2259 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2260 any possible encoding problems.
2261
35d40a98
PH
2262PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2263 but not after initializing Perl.
2264
034d99ab
PH
2265PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2266 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2267 apparently, which is not desirable.
2268
6ec97b1b
PH
2269PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2270 queries.
2271
e22ca4ac
JJ
2272JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2273 --not options
2274
2275JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2276
33d73e3b
PH
2277PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2278 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2279 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2280 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2281
9ecb03f3
PH
2282PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2283 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2284 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2285
084efe8d
PH
2286PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2287 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2288 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2289 0.12.
2290
366fc9f0
PH
2291PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2292 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2293 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2294 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2295 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2296
c59f5781 2297
c887c79e
TF
2298Exim version 4.62
2299-----------------
2300
2301TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2302 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2303
1cce3af8
PH
2304PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2305 patch).
2306
afb3eaaf
PH
2307PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2308 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2309 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2310 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2311 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2312 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2313 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2314 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2315 451 error is used.
2316
e173618b
PH
2317PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2318
dd16e114
PH
2319PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2320 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2321 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2322
f7fd3850
PH
2323PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2324 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2325 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2326 odd errors.
2327
d87df92c
PH
2328PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2329 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2330
7e9f683d
PH
2331PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2332 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2333 option (which defaults to 0600).
2334
bfad5236
PH
2335PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2336
01c490df
PH
2337PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2338 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2339 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2340 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2341 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2342 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2343 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2344
d6629cdc
PH
2345PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2346
1cce3af8 2347
214e2000
PH
2348Exim version 4.61
2349-----------------
2350
2351PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2352 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2353 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2354 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2355 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2356 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2357 addresses as local.
2358
f9daeae0
PH
2359PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2360 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2361
7e66e54d
PH
2362PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2363
c8ea1597
PH
2364PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2365 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2366 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2367 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2368 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2369 grumble.
2370
911f6fde
PH
2371PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2372 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2373
47ca6d6c
PH
2374PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2375 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2376 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2377 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2378 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2379
ed0e9820
PH
2380PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2381 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2382 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2383 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2384
eff37e47
PH
2385PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2386 be the same on different OS.
2387
1921d2ea
PH
2388PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2389 testing.
2390
b3f69ca8
JJ
2391JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2392 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2393
2394JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2395 in 4.61-PH/06
2396
424a1c63
PH
2397PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2398 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2399 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2400 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2401 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2402 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2403 bounce message.
2404
7a100415
PH
2405PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2406 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2407 when Exim was called.
2408
19b9dc85
PH
2409PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2410 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2411
309bd837
PH
2412PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2413 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2414 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2415 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2416
59e82a2a
PH
2417PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2418 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2419 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2420 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2421 changes:
2422
2423 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2424 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2425 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2426
2427 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2428 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2429 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2430
9edc04ce
PH
2431PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2432 feature).
2433
1349e1e5
PH
2434PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2435 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2436 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2437 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2438 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2439 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2440 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2441 values from the SRV records were lost.
2442
ea49d0e1
PH
2443PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2444 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2445 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2446
064a94c9
PH
2447PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2448 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2449 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2450
727071f8
PH
2451PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2452 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2453 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2454 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2455 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2456 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2457 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2458 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2459 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2460 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2461
f78eb7c6
PH
2462PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2463 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2464 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2465
21c28500
PH
2466PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2467 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2468
2469PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2470 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2471 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2472 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2473 is given.
2474
1688f43b
PH
2475PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2476 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2477 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2478
2479PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2480 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2481 PH/23 above applies.
2482
9675b384
PH
2483PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2484 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2485 (for which there is an explicit test).
2486
6a3f1455
PH
2487PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2488
dac79d3e
PH
2489PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2490 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2491 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2492 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2493 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2494
5977a0b3
PH
2495PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2496 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2497 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2498 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2499
c91535f3
PH
2500PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2501 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2502 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2503
0d46a8c8
PH
2504PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2505
278c6e6c
PH
2506PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2507
2cbb4081
PH
2508PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2509 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2510 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2511
3eef829e
PH
2512PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2513 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2514 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2515 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2516 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2517
1ab95fa6
PH
2518PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2519 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2520 the message gets confusing).
2521
230205fc
PH
2522PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2523 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2524 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2525 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2526
75e0e026
PH
2527PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2528 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2529 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2530 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2531 same order.
2532
2533PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2534 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2535 the different processes.
2536
145396a6
PH
2537PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2538
3cd34f13
PH
2539PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2540
11121d3d
JJ
2541JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2542 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2543
2544JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2545 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2546
2547JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2548 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2549 messages matching specified criteria.
2550
8def5aaf
PH
2551PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2552
929ba01c
PH
2553PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2554 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2555
2632889e
PH
2556PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2557 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2558 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2559 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2560 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2561 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2562 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2563 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2564 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2565 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2566
944a9c55
PH
2567PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2568 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2569 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2570
4a23603b
PH
2571PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2572
4730f942
PH
2573PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2574 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2575 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2576 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2577 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2578 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2579 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2580 the variable.
2581
30dba1e6
PH
2582PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2583 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2584
382afc6b
PH
2585PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2586
a86229cf
PH
2587PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2588
50c99ba6
PH
2589PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2590
d35e429d
PH
2591PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2592 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2593 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2594 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2595 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2596 size of the count of files.
2597
f90d018c
PH
2598PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2599
75def545
PH
2600PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2601 used in LMTP mode:
2602
2603 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2604 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2605 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2606 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2607
2608 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2609 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2610 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2611
2612PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2613 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2614 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2615 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2616 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2617
c46782ef
PH
2618PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2619 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2620
71fafd95
PH
2621PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2622 will now be deprecated.
2623
2c5db4fd
PH
2624PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2625
9cf6b11a
JJ
2626JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2627 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2628 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2629
2630JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2631 with very large, slow to parse queues
2632
2633JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2634
2635JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2636
898d150f
PH
2637PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2638 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2639 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2640 SMTP output lines.
2641
46218253
PH
2642PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2643 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2644 Sieve code now uses this.
2645
e97957bc
PH
2646PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2647 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2648
81e509d7
PH
2649PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2650 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2651
3d240ff7
PH
2652PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2653
b37c4101
PH
2654PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2655 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2656 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2657 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2658 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2659
79378e0f
PH
2660PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2661 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2662 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2663 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2664
e49c7bb4
PH
2665PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2666
d114ec46
PH
2667PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2668
f3d7df6c
PH
2669PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2670 is preferred over IPv4.
2671
715ab376
PH
2672PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2673 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2674 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2675 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2676 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2677 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2678 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2679
6b31b150
PH
2680PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2681 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2682 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2683
2684PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2685
d515a917
PH
2686PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2687 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2688 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2689 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2690 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2691 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2692 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2693 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2694 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2695 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2696 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2697
9b8fadde
PH
2698PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2699 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2700 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2701
214e2000 2702
5de37277
PH
2703Exim version 4.60
2704-----------------
2705
cc38ddbf
PH
2706PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2707
2708 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2709 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2710
2711 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2712 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2713 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2714
72fdd6ae
PH
2715PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2716
2717 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2718 not a single digit.
2719
2720 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2721 string.
2722
2723 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2724 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2725 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2726 silly things.
2727
2728 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2729 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2730
2731 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2732 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2733
cb741023
PH
2734PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2735 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2736 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2737
f174f16e
PH
2738PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2739 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2740
c25242d7
PH
2741PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2742 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2743
2744 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2745
2746 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2747 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2748 this:
2749
2750 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2751
82c19f95
PH
2752PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2753 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2754 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2755 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2756 identical. For example:
2757
2758 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2759
2760 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2761 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2762 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2763
d7ffbc12
PH
2764PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2765 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2766 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2767 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2768
9f526266
PH
2769PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2770 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2771 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2772 message.
2773
87fcc8b9
PH
2774PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2775
2776 o fixes some comments
2777 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2778 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2779 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2780 and documents the missing references header update
2781
2782 and most important:
2783
2784 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2785 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2786 result)
2787
456682f5
PH
2788PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2789 Electronic Mail") by including:
2790
2791 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2792
2793 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2794 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2795 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2796 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2797 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2798
2799 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2800
2801 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2802
2803 The auto-replied keyword:
2804
2805 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2806 message by an automatic process,
2807
2808 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2809
2810 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2811 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2812
2813 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2814 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2815 other messages.
2816
3e46c1aa
PH
2817PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2818 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2819
49826d12
PH
2820PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2821
eba0c039
PH
2822PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2823 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2824 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2825
a0d6ba8a
PH
2826PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2827 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2828 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2829
f0917727
PH
2830PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2831 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2832 and treats the condition as false.
2833
096fee00
PH
2834PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2835
024bd3c2
PH
2836PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2837 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2838 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2839 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2840 not changing the active code.
2841
2842 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2843 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2844
2845 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2846 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2847
df199fec
PH
2848PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2849 (Bugzilla #53).
2850
d27f1df3
PH
2851PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2852 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2853 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2854 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2855 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2856 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2857 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2858 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2859 the text comparison.
2860
96776534
PH
2861PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2862 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2863 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2864 The same fix has been applied.
2865
5de37277 2866
9a799bc0
PH
2867Exim version 4.54
2868-----------------
2869
2870PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2871 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2872 It now does.
2873
99a4b039
PH
2874PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2875 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2876
2877PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2878
4b233853
PH
2879PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2880 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2881 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2882 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2883 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2884
8857ccfd
PH
2885TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2886 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2887 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2888 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2889 or /domain=).
2890
433a2980
PH
2891PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2892 testing suite.
2893
3e46c1aa 2894
9a799bc0 2895
e3a311ba
TK
2896Exim version 4.53
2897-----------------
2898
2899TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2900 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2901
13b685f9
PH
2902PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2903
395ff96d
PH
2904PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2905
5b68f6e4
PH
2906PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2907 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2908 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2909
1ab52c69
PH
2910PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2911 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2912 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2913
b07e6aa3
PH
2914PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2915 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2916 operating systems.
2917
254e032f
PH
2918PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2919 ${stat: expansion item.
2920
3af76a81
PH
2921PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2922 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2923
2548ba04
PH
2924PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2925 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2926 file for comments.
2927
b6c6011d
PH
2928PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2929
cf39cf57
PH
2930PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2931 setting.
2932
f1513293
PH
2933PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2934 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2935
727549a4
PH
2936TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2937
af46795e
PH
2938PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2939 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2940 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2941 the end of the subprocess.
2942
d7b47fd0
PH
2943PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2944 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2945 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2946 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2947 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2948
ee744174
JJ
2949JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2950
b582ab87
PH
2951TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2952
41a13e0a
PH
2953PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2954 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2955
f625cc5a
PH
2956PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2957
2958PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2959
21f7af35
PH
2960PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2961 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2962 HP-UX compiler.
2963
31480e42
PH
2964PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2965
2d280592
PH
2966PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2967 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2968 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2969
7cd1141b
PH
2970PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2971 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2972
2973PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2974 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2975
750af86e
PH
2976PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2977 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2978
2979 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2980 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2981
2982 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2983 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2984 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2985 contributed by a Radius user.
2986
2987PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2988 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2989
4304270b
TK
2990TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2991 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2992
750af86e
PH
2993PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2994 available.
2995
64ffc24f
PH
2996PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2997 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2998 received.
2999
5dd9625b
PH
3000PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3001 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3002 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3003 header lines when this was not necessary.
3004
5591031b
PH
3005PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3006
ba18e66a
PH
3007PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3008 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3009 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3010 exists".
3011
9cec981f
PH
3012PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3013 -bV or -d is used.
3014
aa2b5c79
PH
3015PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3016 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3017 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3018 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3019
48a53b7f
PH
3020PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3021
1c59d63b
PH
3022PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3023
671012da
TK
3024TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3025
1509d3a8
PH
3026PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3027
3028PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3029 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3030 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3031 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3032 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3033 settings.
3034
3035PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3036
2fe1a124
PH
3037PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3038 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3039 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3040 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3041 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3042 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3043 which is clearly wrong.
3044
8800895a
PH
3045PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3046
ccfdb010
PH
3047PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3048 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3049 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3050 subsequently added.
3051
1130bfb0
PH
3052PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3053 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3054
ebcb507f
PH
3055PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3056
c35e155c
PH
3057PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3058 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3059
95d1f782
PH
3060PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3061 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3062
fd6de02e
PH
3063PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3064 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3065
58de37c5
PH
3066PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3067 recipients, not senders.
3068
261cf466
TF
3069TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3070 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3071
3ee512ff
PH
3072PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3073
e08c430f
PH
3074PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3075
bef5a11f
PH
3076PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3077 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3078 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3079 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3080
7546de58
TF
3081TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3082
e5d5a95f
TF
3083TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3084 clock is set back in time.
3085
2e88a017
TF
3086TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3087 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3088
a5f65aa4
TF
3089TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3090 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3091
e7726cbf
PH
3092PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3093 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3094 (see PH/47 above).
3095
a7fdad5b
TF
3096TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3097 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3098 header rewrites.
3099
6af56900
PH
3100PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3101 type ("H").
3102
0925ede6
PH
3103PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3104
66afa403
TF
3105TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3106 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3107 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3108
0154e85a
TF
3109TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3110 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3111 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3112 helo verification defer as a failure.
3113
16f12c76
PH
3114PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3115 actual error message.
3116
bbe902f0 3117
e5a9dba6
PH
3118Exim version 4.52
3119-----------------
3120
3121TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3122
22c3b60b
PH
3123PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3124 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3125 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3126 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3127
06a9b4b5
PH
3128TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3129
c1ac6996
PH
3130PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3131 can still be requested.
3132
9c7a242c
PH
3133PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3134 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3135 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3136 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3137
87ba3f5f
PH
3138TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3139 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3140 circumstances, but probably never did.
3141
3142PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3143 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3144 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3145 in the header line.
3146
29aba418
TF
3147TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3148
fe0dab11
TF
3149TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3150 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3151
11d337a4
TK
3152TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3153
3154TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3155
415c8f3b
PH
3156PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3157 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3158 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3159 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3160 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3161 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3162
958541e9
PH
3163PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3164 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3165 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3166 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3167 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3168 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3169
c206415f
TK
3170TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3171 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3172
2a4be8f9
PH
3173PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3174 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3175
1cba11c5
SC
3176SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3177 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3178
3179SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3180
3181SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3182
3183SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3184
3185SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3186
3187SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3188
3189SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3190
1005d00e
TK
3191TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3192
3193TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3194 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3195 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3196
3197TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3198 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3199 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3200 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3201
9b4768fa
PH
3202PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3203 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3204 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3205
3206PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3207 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3208 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3209 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3210
0d7eb84a
PH
3211PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3212 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3213 to be made).
3214
3215PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3216 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3217 should work with maildirs and everything.
3218
40727bee
TK
3219TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3220 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3221
554d2369
TF
3222TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3223 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3224
1f922db1
PH
3225PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3226 function for BDB 4.3.
3227
ef213c3b
PH
3228PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3229
8ac170f3
PH
3230PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3231 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3232 involved.
3233
b1c749bb
PH
3234PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3235 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3236 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3237 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3238 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3239 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3240
4aac9b49
PH
3241PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3242 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3243 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3244 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3245 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3246 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3247 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3248 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3249
294520c8
TK
3250TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3251 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3252 details.
3253
5bd022fe
PH
3254PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3255 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3256
90e9ce59
PH
3257PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3258 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3259 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3260 test. It is now used for both.
3261
5ea81592
PH
3262PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3263 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3264 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3265 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3266 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3267 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3268
c6c2dc1d
PH
3269PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3270 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3271 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3272 string_vformat().
3273
fffffe4c
PH
3274PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3275 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3276 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3277
9a26b6b2
PH
3278PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3279 experimental DomainKeys support:
3280
3281 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3282 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3283 the control was given.
3284
3285 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3286
4aee0225
PH
3287PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3288
32d668a5
PH
3289PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3290
8187c3f3
PH
3291PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3292 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3293 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3294 db.h files).
3295
ff790e47 3296PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3297 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3298 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3299 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3300 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3301 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3302 course.
ff790e47 3303
5417f6d1
PH
3304PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3305 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3306 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3307 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3308 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3309 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3310
59cf8544
PH
3311PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3312 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3313 do -d+all out of habit.
3314
e7ad8a65
PH
3315PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3316 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3317 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3318
ade42478
PH
3319PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3320 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3321 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3322 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3323 record types that Exim uses.
3324
182ad5cf
PH
3325PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3326 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3327 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3328 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3329 non-existent file that was broken.
3330
b0d9fc80
TK
3331TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3332 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3333
3334TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3335 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3336 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3337
3338TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3339
47c7a64a
PH
3340PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3341 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3342 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3343 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3344 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3345 same time.
3346
a388bce4
SC
3347SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3348 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3349 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3350 at a slight CPU cost.
3351
3352SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3353 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3354
3355SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3356 by Marc Sherman.
3357
0793e4ed
SC
3358SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3359
c58b88df
PH
3360PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3361 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3362
e7ad8a65 3363
7982096b
PH
3364Exim version 4.51
3365-----------------
3366
1a46a8c5
PH
3367TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3368 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3369
2f079f46 3370TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3371
3372TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3373
3374PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3375 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3376
3377PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3378 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3379 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3380 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3381 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3382 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3383 file.
3384
3385PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3386 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3387 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3388 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3389 these two options.
3390
3391PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3392 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3393 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3394 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3395 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3396 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3397 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3398 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3399
3400PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3401 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3402
3403PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3404 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3405 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3406 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3407 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3408 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3409
3410PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3411 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3412 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3413 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3414
3415PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3416 Finch).
3417
3418PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3419 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3420
49c2d5ea
PH
3421PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3422 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3423 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3424 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3425 message.
49c2d5ea 3426
bf759a8b
PH
3427PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3428
83364d30
PH
3429PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3430 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3431
7999bbd7
PH
3432PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3433 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3434 to what was transported.)
3435
7dbf77c9
PH
3436TF/01 Added $received_time.
3437
74e0617f
PH
3438PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3439 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3440 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3441 spamd_address settings.
3442
2f079f46
PH
3443PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3444 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3445 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3446 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3447 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3448
8c841523
PH
3449PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3450
7766a4f0
PH
3451PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3452 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3453 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3454 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3455 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3456
8b417f2c
PH
3457PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3458 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3459
901f42cb
PH
3460PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3461 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3462 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3463 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3464 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3465 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3466 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3467 for failure.
3468
f9b9210e
PH
3469PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3470 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3471 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3472 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3473 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3474 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3475 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3476 "input=".
3477
54cdb463
PH
3478PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3479
cf00dad6
PH
3480PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3481 driver and ACL definitions.
3482
acb1b346
PH
3483PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3484 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3485
c5ddb310
PH
3486PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3487 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3488 understands it better than I do:
3489
3490 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3491 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3492
3493 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3494 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3495 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3496 => three warnings about OTP not working
3497 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3498
3499 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3500 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3501 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3502 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3503 for each call.)
3504 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3505 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3506
3507 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3508 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3509 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3510
31619da6
PH
3511PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3512 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3513 specified.
3514
bebaf0fc
PH
3515PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3516 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3517 "Linux".
3518
475fe28a
PH
3519PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3520 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3521 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3522
3523 warn !verify = sender
3524 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3525
3526 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3527 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3528
7e8bec7a
PH
3529PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3530
3531 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3532 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3533
3534 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3535 nomenclature these days.)
3536
e4a89c47
PH
3537PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3538 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3539
5ca2a9a1
PH
3540PH/30 In these circumstances:
3541 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3542 . First host does not offer TLS;
3543 . First host accepts first address;
3544 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3545 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3546 . Second host accepts second address.
3547 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3548 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3549 address.
7e8bec7a 3550
c688b954
PH
3551PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3552 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3553 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3554 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3555 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3556
fed77020
PH
3557PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3558 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3559
7fe1560f
PH
3560PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3561 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3562
ebb6e6d5
PH
3563PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3564 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3565 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3566
9c4e8f60
PH
3567PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3568 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3569 overlooked.
3570
3571PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3572
d7174846
PH
3573PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3574 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3575 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3576 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3577 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3578 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3579 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3580
3581 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3582 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3583 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3584 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3585 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3586
3587 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3588 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3589 routed further.
3590
cfe75fc3
PH
3591PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3592 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3593 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3594 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3595 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3596 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3597
be22d70e
PH
3598PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3599
0612b098
PH
3600PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3601 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3602 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3603 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3604 printable escape sequences.
3605
2e0c1448
PH
3606PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3607 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3608 body only.
3609
447d236c
PH
3610PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3611 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3612 are as follows:
3613
3614 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3615 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3616 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3617 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3618 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3619
3620 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3621 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3622 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3623
d20976dc
PH
3624PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3625
f656d135
PH
3626PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3627 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3628 play with."
3629
2e2a30b4
PH
3630PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3631 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3632 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3633 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3634 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3635 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3636 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3637 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3638 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3639 the log output.
3640
9176e9f0
PH
3641PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3642 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3643 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3644 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3645 "make".
3646
7982096b 3647
bbe902f0
PH
3648A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3649----------------------------------------
3650
3651Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3652changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3653needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3654in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3655that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3656release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3657from 4.43.
3658
3659I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36604.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3661those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3662historical information.
3663
3664
f7b63901 3665Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3666-----------------
3667
5fe762f6
PH
3668 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3669
139059f6 3670 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3671 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3672
7086e875
PH
3673 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3674 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3675 place.
3676
35af9f61
PH
3677 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3678 filter fails to execute.
3679
b668c215
PH
3680 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3681 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3682 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3683 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3684 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3685
a494b1e1
PH
3686 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3687
3688 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3689 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3690 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3691 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3692
c5fcb476
PH
3693 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3694 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3695 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3696 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3697 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3698
69358f02
PH
3699 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3700
5be20824
PH
370110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3702
eb2c0248
PH
370311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3704 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3705 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3706 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3707
2a3eea10
PH
370812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3709 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3710 sender verification.
3711
371213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3713 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3714
23c7ff99
PH
371514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3716
4deaf07d
PH
371715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3718 connection timeout.
3719
926e1192
PH
372016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3721 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3722
650edc6f
PH
372317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3724 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3725
2c7db3f5
PH
372618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3727 information about exactly what failed.
3728
3d235903
PH
372919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3730
7c7ad977
PH
373120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3732 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3733 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3734
981756db
PH
373521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3736 It is now set to "smtps".
3737
d4eb88df
PH
373822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3739 ignore_target_hosts.
3740
374123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3742 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3743 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3744 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3745 "[x.x.x.x]".
3746
7d468ab8
PH
374724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3748 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3749 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3750
375125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3752 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3753 wake it up if nothing else does.
3754
62c0818f
PH
375526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3756 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3757 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3758 end up negative.
3759
26034054
PH
376027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3761 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3762
af66f652
PH
376328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3764
90af77f4
PH
376529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3766 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3767 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3768 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3769 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3770 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3771 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3772 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3773
d8ef3577
PH
377430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3775 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3776 than one IP address.
3777
5cb8cbc6
PH
377831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3779 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3780 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3781 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3782
14702f5b
PH
378332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3784 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3785 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3786 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3787 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3788 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3789
063b1e99
PH
379033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3791 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3792 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3793 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3794
652e1b65
PH
379534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3796 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3797 respected.
3798
6f0c9a4f
PH
379935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3800 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3801 $sender_host_address.
3802
33397d19
PH
380336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3804 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3805 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3806 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3807 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3808 very small.
3809
7bb56e1f
PH
381037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3811
3812 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3813 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3814
ea3bc19b
PH
3815 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3816 just the host names, not the priorities.
3817
3818 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3819 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3820 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3821
ea3bc19b 3822 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3823 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3824
0bcb2a0e
PH
382538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3826 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3827 domain.
3828
2ac0e484
PH
382939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3830
4e1fde53
PH
383140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3832 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3833
de365ded
PH
383441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3835 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3836 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3837
f05da2e8
PH
383842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3839
d6453af2
PH
384043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3841
f7b63901
PH
384244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3843
384445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3845 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3846 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3847 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3848 because the tests only now provoked it.
3849
a444213a
PH
385046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3851 (this can affect the format of dates).
3852
0ec020ea
PH
385347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3854 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3855 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3856 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3857
b1206957
PH
385848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3859
386049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3861 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3862 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3863 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3864
26dd5a95
PH
386550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3866 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3867 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3868
343b2385
PH
386951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3870 autoreply.
3871
1c5466b9
PH
387252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3873 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3874 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3875 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3876 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3877 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3878 is going on).
3879
55ee9ee3
PH
388053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3881 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3882 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3883 the line.
3884
d38f8232
PH
388554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3886 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3887 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3888
3889 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3890 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3891 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3892 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3893 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3894 so I produce this patch..."
3895
3295e65b
PH
3896 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3897 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3898 is not defined.
3899
7102e136
PH
390055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3901 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3902 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3903 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3904 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3905
3ca0ba97
PH
390656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3907
c2bcbe20
PH
390857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3909 long debug lines gets shown.
3910
18ce445d
PH
391158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3912 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3913
1f5b4c3d
PH
391459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3915
3916 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3917 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3918 of $primary_hostname.
3919
b975ba52
PH
392060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3921 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3922 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3923 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3924 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3925 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3926 by change 4.50/55 above.
3927
3928 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3929 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3930 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3931 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3932 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3933 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3934 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3935
393661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3937 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3938 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3939 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3940
17ffcae7
PH
394162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3942 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3943
d95f9fdb
PH
394463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3945 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3946 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3947 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3948 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3949
86b8287f
PH
395064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3951 This has been fixed.
3952
60dc5e56
PH
395365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3954 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3955 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3956 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3957 the caching.)
3958
533244af
PH
395966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3960
a5a28604
PH
396167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3962 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3963 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3964 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3965
7e634d24
PH
396668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3967 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3968
3e11c26b
PH
396969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3970 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3971 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3972
6729cf78
PH
397370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3974 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3975 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3976 message there.
3977
00f00ca5
PH
397871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3979 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3980 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3981
c9bdd01c
PH
398272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3983 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3984 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3985 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3986
d43194df
PH
398773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3988 during host lookups.
3989
fe5b5d0b
PH
399074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3991 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3992
3993 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3994
76a2d7ba
PH
399575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3996 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3997 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3998 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3999 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4000 background.
4001
400276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4003 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4004
04f7d5b9
PH
400577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4006 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4007 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4008
bc60667e
PH
400978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4010
bb6e88ff
PH
401179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4012 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4013 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4014 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4015 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4016 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4017 process earlier.
4018
1e70f85b
PH
401980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4020 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4021 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4022 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4023 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4024
402581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4026 tables).
4027
4e01f9d6
PH
402882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4029
1ee1cef2
PH
403083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4031 "vacation" handling.
4032
6e2b4ccc
PH
403384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4034 OS variants using glibc.
4035
8e669ac1
PH
403685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4037
495ae4b0 4038
bbe902f0
PH
4039----------------------------------------------------
4040See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4041----------------------------------------------------
4042
4043
4044Exim version 4.44
4045-----------------
4046
4047 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4048 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4049 transport
4050
4051 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4052 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4053 place.
4054
4055 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4056 filter fails to execute.
4057
4058 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4059 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4060 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4061 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4062 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4063
4064 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4065 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4066 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4067 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4068
4069 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4070 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4071 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4072 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4073 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4074
4075 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4076
4077 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4078 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4079 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4080 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4081
4082 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4083 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4084 sender verification.
4085
408610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4087 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4088
408911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4090 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4091
409212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4093 ignore_target_hosts.
4094
409513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4096 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4097 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4098 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4099 "[x.x.x.x]".
4100
410114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4102 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4103 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4104
410515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4106 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4107 wake it up if nothing else does.
4108
410916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4110 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4111 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4112 end up negative.
4113
411417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4115 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4116
ea3a6f44 411718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4118
411919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4120 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4121 empty pattern.
4122
412320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4124 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4125 one IP address.
4126
ea3a6f44
NM
412721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4128 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4129 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4130 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4131 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4132 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4133
ea3a6f44
NM
413422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4135 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4136 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4137
413823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4139 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4140 $sender_host_address.
4141
414224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4143
ea3a6f44
NM
414425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4145 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4146 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4147
414826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4149 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4150
ea3a6f44
NM
415127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4152 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4153
ea3a6f44
NM
415428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4155 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4156 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4157 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4158
415929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4160 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4161 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4162
ea3a6f44
NM
416330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4164 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4165 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4166 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4167
ea3a6f44
NM
416831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4169 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4170 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4171
ea3a6f44
NM
417231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4173 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4174
ea3a6f44
NM
417532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4176 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4177 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4178 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4179 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4180 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4181 is going on).
bbe902f0 4182
ea3a6f44
NM
418333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4184 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4185 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4186 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4187 CAN-2005-0021
4188
ea3a6f44
NM
418934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4190 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4191 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4192 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4193 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4194 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4195 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4196
4197 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4198 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4199 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4200 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4201 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4202 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4203 CAN-2005-0021
4204
ea3a6f44
NM
420535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4206 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4207 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4208 CAN-2005-0022
4209
ea3a6f44
NM
421036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4211 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4212 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4213 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4214 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4215
ea3a6f44
NM
421637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4217 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4218 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4219 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4220 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4221
ea3a6f44
NM
422238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4223 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4224 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4225 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4226 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4227
4228
495ae4b0
PH
4229Exim version 4.43
4230-----------------
4231
4232 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4233 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4234 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4235 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4236 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4237 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4238 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4239
4240 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4241 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4242 the delivery.
4243
4244 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4245
4246 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4247
4248 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4249 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4250 to local_scan().
4251
4252 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4253 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4254 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4255 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4256 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4257
4258 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4259 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4260
4261 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4262
4263 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4264
426510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4266 header_sender only.
4267
426811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4269 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4270
427112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4272 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4273 affecting debugging statements).
4274
427513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4276
427714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4278 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4279 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4280 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4281 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4282 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4283 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4284 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4285 after the received time, and all would be well.
4286
428715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4288 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4289 condition in an expansion string.
4290
429116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4292
429317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4294 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4295 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4296 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4297 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4298 job under whatever limits there are.
4299
430018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4301
430219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4303 space).
4304
430520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4306 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4307 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4308 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4309 return path is set.
4310
431121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4312 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4313 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4314 binary data in such strings.
4315
431622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4317
431823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4319 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4320 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4321 failure, which is pointless.
4322
432324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4324
432525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4326
432726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4328 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4329 Sender: header lines.
4330
433127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4332 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4333 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4334
433528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4336 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4337 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4338 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4339 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4340 happens.
4341
434229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4343 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4344 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4345 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4346 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4347
434830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4349 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4350 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4351 1024.
4352
435331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4354 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4355
435632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4357 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4358
435933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4360
436132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4362
436333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4364
436534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4366 syntax error.
4367
436835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4369
437036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4371
437237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4373 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4374 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4375 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4376
437738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4378 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4379
4380
4381Exim version 4.42
4382-----------------
4383
4384 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4385 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4386 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4387 it was not quoted.
4388 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4389 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4390 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4391 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4392 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4393 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4394
4395 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4396 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4397 verification failure".
4398
4399 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4400 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4401 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4402 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4403
4404 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4405 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4406 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4407 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4408 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4409 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4410 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4411 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4412 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4413 treated as a timeout.
4414
4415 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4416 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4417 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4418 not set for Exim filters).
4419
4420 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4421 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4422 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4423
4424 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4425
4426 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4427 try to make them clearer.
4428
4429 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4430 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4431
4432 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4433
4434 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4435
443610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4437 only the Cygwin environment.
4438
443911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4440 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4441 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4442 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4443 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4444
444512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4446 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4447 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4448 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4449 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4450 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4451 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4452
445313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4454 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4455
445614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4457
4458 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4459 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4460 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4461
4462 To: susanne@some.where
4463
4464 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4465 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4466 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4467 of addresses in From: header lines).
4468
4469 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4470 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4471 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4472
4473 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4474 treated as non-personal.
4475
4476 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4477 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4478
447915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4480
448116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4482
448317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4484 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4485 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4486
448718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4488 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4489
449019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4491 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4492 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4493 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4494 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4495 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4496
449720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4498 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4499 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4500 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4501 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4502 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4503 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4504 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4505
4506 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4507
450821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4509 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4510
451122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4512 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4513 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4514
451523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4516 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4517
451824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4519 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4520 rather than long int.
4521
452225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4523
452426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4525
4526
4527Exim version 4.41
4528-----------------
4529
4530 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4531 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4532 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4533 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4534 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4535 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4536
4537
4538Exim version 4.40
4539-----------------
4540
4541 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4542 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4543
4544 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4545 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4546 socklen_t is defined.
4547
4548 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4549 always exist.
4550
4551 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4552 configured.
4553
4554 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4555 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4556 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4557 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4558 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4559
4560 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4561 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4562 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4563 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4564
4565 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4566 of flapping under certain conditions.
4567
4568 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4569 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4570 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4571
4572 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4573
457410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4575
457611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4577 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4578 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4579 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4580
458112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4582 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4583 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4584 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4585 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4586 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4587 preserved with the message after it was received.
4588
458913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4590 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4591 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4592 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4593 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4594 test suite worked just fine.
4595
459614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4597 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4598 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4599
460015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4601 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4602 string.
4603
460416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4605 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4606 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4607 does not fully solve it.
4608
460917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4610 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4611 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4612 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4613 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4614
461518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4616 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4617 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4618
461919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4620 string, for example:
4621
4622 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4623
4624 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4625 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4626 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4627 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4628 the routers could not see them.
4629
463020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4631 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4632
463321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4634 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4635 output).
4636
463722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4638 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4639 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4640 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4641 that needed quoting.
4642
464323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4644 was not being matched caselessly.
4645
464624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4647 backslashes.
4648
464925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4650 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4651 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4652 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4653 when use_sender is false.
4654
465526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4656
465727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4658
465928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4660
466129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4662 the configuration file.
4663
466430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4665 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4666
466731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4668
466932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4670 bytes in the message body.
4671
467233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4673 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4674 delivery.
4675
467634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4677
467835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4679
468036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4681 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4682 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4683 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4684 another IP address.
4685
4686
4687Exim version 4.34
4688-----------------
4689
4690 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4691 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4692
4693 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4694 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4695 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4696 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4697 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4698
4699 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4700 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4701
4702 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4703 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4704 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4705
4706 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4707 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4708 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4709
4710 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4711 for routers.
4712
4713 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4714 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4715 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4716 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4717 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4718 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4719 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4720
4721
4722Exim version 4.33
4723-----------------
4724
4725 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4726 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4727 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4728 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4729 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4730 default (and expected) setting.
4731
4732 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4733 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4734 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4735 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4736
4737 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4738 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4739
4740 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4741 in domain lists.
4742
4743 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4744 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4745 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4746 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4747 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4748 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4749
4750 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4751 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4752 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4753
4754 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4755 part (NOT match_host).
4756
4757 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4758
4759 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4760 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4761 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4762 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4763 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4764 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4765 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4766 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4767 the same named file.
4768
476910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4770 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4771 when Exim is built.
4772
477311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4774 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4775 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4776 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4777 a host name.
4778
477912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4780 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4781 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4782
478313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4784
478514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4786
478715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4788
478916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4790 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4791
479217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4793 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4794 before starting the TLS session.
4795
479618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4797
479819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4799 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4800
480120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4802 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4803 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4804 colon in the middle).
4805
4806
4807Exim version 4.32
4808-----------------
4809
4810 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4811 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4812 multiple configurations are in use.
4813
4814 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4815 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4816 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4817 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4818 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4819 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4820
4821 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4822 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4823
4824 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4825 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4826 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4827
4828 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4829 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4830 occurs.
4831
4832 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4833 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4834
4835 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4836
4837 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4838 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4839
4840 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4841
4842 -prval:sval
4843
4844 is equivalent to
4845
4846 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4847
4848 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4849 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4850 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4851 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4852 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4853
485410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4855 Exim's behaviour:
4856
4857 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4858 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4859 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4860 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4861 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4862 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4863
4864 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4865 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4866 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4867 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4868 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4869 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4870 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4871 string.
4872
4873 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4874 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4875 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4876 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4877 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4878
487911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4880
488112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4882 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4883 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4884
488513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4886
488714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4888 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4889 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4890 information.
4891
489215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4893 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4894
489516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4896 Three changes have been made:
4897
4898 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4899 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4900 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4901 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4902 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4903
4904 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4905 been restored.
4906
4907 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4908 the modified behaviour.
4909
4910
4911Exim version 4.31
4912-----------------
4913
4914 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4915 Larry Rosenman.
4916
4917 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4918 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4919
4920 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4921 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4922 try to track down a specific problem.
4923
4924 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4925 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4926 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4927
4928 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4929 warning.
4930
4931 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4932 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4933 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4934 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4935 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4936 some earlier ones do not.
4937
4938 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4939
4940 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4941 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4942 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4943 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4944 address literals are enabled, of course).
4945
4946 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4947
494810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4949 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4950 by a command such as
4951
4952 exim -f "" ...
4953
4954 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4955
495611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4957
495812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4959 remained set. It is now erased.
4960
496113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4962 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4963
496414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4965 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4966 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4967 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4968 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4969 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4970 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4971 appropriate error code.
4972
497315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4974 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4975 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4976 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4977 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4978 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4979
498016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4981 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4982 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4983
498417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4985 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4986 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4987 terminate the header.
4988
498918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4990 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4991 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4992
499319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4994 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4995 (4.30/29). In particular:
4996
4997 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4998 imposed.
4999
5000 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5001 to write a maildirsize file.
5002
5003 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5004 the transport, the new value overrides.
5005
5006 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5007 count.
5008
500920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5010 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5011 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5012 space or a tab.
5013
501421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5015 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5016 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5017 the fallback hosts.
5018
501922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5020 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5021 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5022
502323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5024 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5025 using a union.
5026
502724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5028 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5029 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5030
503125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5032
503326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5034
503527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5036
503728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5038 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5039 become corrupted.
5040
504129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5042 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5043 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5044 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5045 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5046 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5047 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5048 too great.
5049
505030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5051 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5052 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5053 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5054 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5055 incorrectly.
5056
505731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5058 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5059 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5060 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5061 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5062 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5063 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5064 cached value only when the same options are set.
5065
506632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5067
506833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5069 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5070 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5071 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5072 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5073
507434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5075 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5076 it is clearly obsolete.
5077
507835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5079 transport.
5080
508136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5082 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5083 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5084 times.
5085
508637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5087 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5088 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5089 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5090 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5091
509238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5093 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5094 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5095 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5096
509739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5098
5099 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5100
5101 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5102 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5103 2^31.
5104
510540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5106 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5107 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5108 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5109 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5110 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5111 $localpart_data.
5112
511341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5114 with the -f command-line option.
5115
511642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5117 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5118 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5119 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5120 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5121 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5122
512343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5124 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5125 line.
5126
512744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5128 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5129 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5130 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5131 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5132 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5133 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5134 buffer is too small.
5135
513645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5137 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5138
513946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5140 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5141 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5142 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5143 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5144 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5145 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5146 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5147 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5148
514947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5150 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5151 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5152
515348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5154 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5155 ACL").
5156
515749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5158 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5159 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5160 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5161 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5162
516350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5164 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5165 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5166 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5167 is set.
5168
516951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5170
517152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5172
517353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5174 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5175
517654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5177 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5178 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5179
518055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5181 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5182 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5183 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5184 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5185
518656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5187 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5188 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5189 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5190 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5191 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5192 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5193
519457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5195 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5196 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5197 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5198 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5199 the test of how many are available.
5200
520158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5202 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5203 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5204 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5205 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5206 new message is started.
5207
520859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5209 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5210
521160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5212 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5213
521461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5215 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5216 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5217 is no long logged.
5218
521962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5220 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5221 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5222 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5223 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5224 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5225 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5226
522763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5228 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5229 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5230 interpreted as octal.
5231
523264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5233 setting.
5234
523565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5236 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5237 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5238 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5239 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5240 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5241
524266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5243 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5244 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5245 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5246
5247 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5248 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5249 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5250 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5251
5252 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5253 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5254 is a bug fix.
5255
5256 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5257 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5258
525967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5260
526168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5262 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5263 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5264 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5265
526669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5267 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5268 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5269 supplied", which is not helpful.
5270
527170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5272 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5273 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5274
527571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5276 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5277 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5278 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5279 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5280 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5281 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5282 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5283
528472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5285 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5286 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5287 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5288 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5289
529073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5291 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5292 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5293 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5294 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5295 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5296
529774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5298 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5299 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5300
530175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5302
530376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5304 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5305 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5306 variables.
5307
530877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5309
531078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5311 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5312 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5313 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5314 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5315 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5316 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5317 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5318
531979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5320 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5321 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5322 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5323 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5324
532580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5326 Haardt.
5327
532881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5329 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5330 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5331 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5332 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5333 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5334 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5335 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5336 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5337
5338
5339Exim version 4.30
5340-----------------
5341
5342 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5343 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5344 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5345
5346 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5347 fixed.
5348
5349 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5350 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5351 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5352
5353 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5354 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5355 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5356 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5357 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5358 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5359
5360 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5361 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5362 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5363 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5364 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5365 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5366 the Exim test suite.
5367
5368 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5369 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5370 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5371 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5372
5373 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5374 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5375 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5376 specify it in this variable.
5377
5378 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5379 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5380 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5381 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5382
5383 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5384 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5385 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5386 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5387
5388 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5389 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5390 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5391 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5392 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5393
5394 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5395
539610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5397 they are logged.
5398
539911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5400 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5401 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5402 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5403 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5404
540512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5406 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5407
540813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5409 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5410 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5411 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5412 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5413
541414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5415 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5416
541715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5418 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5419 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5420
542116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5422 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5423
542417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5425 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5426
542718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5428 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5429 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5430
543119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5432 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5433
543420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5435 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5436 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5437 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5438
543921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5440
544122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5442 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5443 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5444 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5445
544623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5447
544824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5449 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5450
545125. Added .include_if_exists.
5452
545326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5454 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5455 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5456 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5457 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5458 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5459
546027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5461
546228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5463 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5464 this.
5465
546629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5467
546830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5469 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5470
5471 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5472 550 Sender verify failed
5473
5474 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5475 the final line of the response.
5476
547731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5478 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5479 all other user lookups.
5480
548132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5482 delivery time.
5483
548433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5485 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5486 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5487 result into an int without checking.
5488
548934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5490 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5491 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5492
549335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5494 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5495 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5496 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5497
549836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5499 correctly.
5500
550137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5502 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5503
550438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5505 to the empty sender.
5506
550739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5508 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5509 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5510 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5511 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5512 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5513 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5514 panic log.
5515
551640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5517 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5518 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5519 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5520 used.
5521
552241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5523 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5524
552542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5526 timestamps.
5527
552843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5529 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5530
553144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5532
553345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5534 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5535 logs.
5536
553746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5538 as soon as it is encountered.
5539
554047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5541
554248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5543 rewritten to "<>".
5544
554549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5546 recognizes a tab character.
5547
554850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5549 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5550 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5551 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5552
555351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5554
555552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5556 crash.
5557
555853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5559
556054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5561
556255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5563 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5564 2822.
5565
556656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5567 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5568 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5569 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5570 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5571
557257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5573 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5574
557558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5576 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5577 list (.included file names were always shown).
5578
557959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5580 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5581 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5582 root at that time.
5583
558460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5585 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5586
558761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5588
558962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5590
559163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5592
559364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5594 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5595 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5596 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5597 failures to open the logs.
5598
559965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5600 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5601 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5602 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5603 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5604 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5605 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5606
5607
5608Exim version 4.24
5609-----------------
5610
5611 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5612 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5613 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5614 change 4.23/1.
5615
5616 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5617 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5618 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5619
5620 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5621 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5622 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5623
5624 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5625 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5626 causing some misleading effects.
5627
5628 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5629 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5630 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5631
5632 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5633 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5634 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5635 queue-runner function directly.
5636
5637
5638Exim version 4.23
5639-----------------
5640
5641 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5642 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5643
5644 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5645 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5646 was always written to the default place.
5647
5648 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5649 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5650 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5651
5652 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5653
5654 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5655
5656 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5657 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5658 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5659
5660 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5661 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5662 must start.
5663
5664 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5665 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5666 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5667
5668 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5669 command line option is disabled.
5670
5671 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5672 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5673
5674 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5675
5676 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5677
5678 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5679 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5680
568110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5682
568311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5684 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5685 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5686 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5687 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5688 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5689
569012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5691 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5692 timeout.
5693
569413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5695 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5696
569714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5698 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5699
570015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5701 received was valid base64.
5702
570316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5704 name of the variable that was being set.
5705
570617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5707
570818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5709 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5710 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5711 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5712 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5713 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5714
571519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5716
571720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5718 nor realm was specified.
5719
572021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5721 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5722 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5723 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5724
572522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5726 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5727 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5728
572923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5730 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5731 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5732
573324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5734 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5735 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5736 some systems use these upper case variants.
5737
573825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5739 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5740 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5741 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5742
574326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5744
574527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5746 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5747
574828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5749 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5750 expansion variable.
5751
575229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5753
575430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5755 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5756 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5757 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5758
575931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5760 using it.
5761
576232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5763 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5764 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5765
576633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5767 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5768
576934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5770 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5771 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5772 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5773
577435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5775 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5776 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5777
577836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5779
578037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5781 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5782 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5783 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5784 aborted.
5785
578638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5787 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5788 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5789
579039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5791
579240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5793 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5794
579541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5796 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5797
579842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5799 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5800 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5801 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5802 when emails are that large.
5803
5804
5805
5806Exim version 4.22
5807-----------------
5808
5809 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5810 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5811
5812 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5813 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5814 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5815
5816 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5817 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5818 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5819
5820 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5821 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5822 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5823 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5824 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5825
5826 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5827 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5828 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5829 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5830 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5831 ever.
5832
5833 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5834 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5835 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5836 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5837 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5838 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5839 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5840 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5841 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5842 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5843 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5844 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5845 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5846 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5847
5848 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5849 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5850 parameterised it.
5851
5852 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5853 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5854 error should be diagnosed.
5855
5856 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5857 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5858 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5859 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5860 appeared instead of "NULL".
5861
586210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5863 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5864 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5865 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5866 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5867 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5868 proceeds).
5869
5870 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5871 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5872 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5873
5874
5875Exim version 4.21
5876-----------------
5877
5878 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5879 or receiver verification errors.
5880
5881 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5882 name.
5883
5884 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5885 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5886 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5887 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5888
5889 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5890 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5891 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5892 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5893 shouldn't happen again.
5894
5895 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5896 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5897 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5898
5899 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5900 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5901
5902 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5903
5904 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5905 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5906
5907 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5908 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5909 RFC.
5910
591110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5912 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5913 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5914
591511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5916 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5917 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5918 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5919
592012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5921 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5922 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5923 to define what should happen).
5924
592513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5926 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5927 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5928
592914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5930
593115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5932
593316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5934 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5935
593617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5937 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5938 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5939 structure in all cases.
5940
5941 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5942 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5943 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5944 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5945
594618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5947 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5948 domain name.
5949
595019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5951 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5952
595320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5954 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5955
595621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5957 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5958 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5959
596022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5961 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5962 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5963
596423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5965 the book and for uniformity.
5966
596724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5968
596925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5970 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5971 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5972 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5973 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5974 non-existent command as the problem.
5975
597626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5977 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5978 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5979
598027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5981
598228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5983 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5984 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5985
598629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5987 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5988 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5989 timestamps using strftime().
5990
599130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5992 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5993
599432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5995 transport-time rewrites.
5996
599733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5998 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5999 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6000 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6001
600234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6003 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6004
600535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6006 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6007 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6008 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6009 comma and a space.
6010
601136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6012 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6013 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6014 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6015 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6016 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6017 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6018
601937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6020 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6021 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6022 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6023 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6024
602538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6026 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6027 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6028 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6029 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6030 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6031 remaining text gets split now.
6032
603339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6034 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6035 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6036 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6037
603840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6039 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6040 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6041 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6042 $return_path.
6043
604441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6045 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6046 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6047 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6048 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6049 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6050 passed through if needed.
6051
605242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6053 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6054 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6055 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6056 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6057 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6058
605943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6060 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6061 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6062 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6063 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6064
606544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6066 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6067 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6068 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6069 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6070
607145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6072 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6073 noticed.
6074
607546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6076 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6077 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6078 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6079 mayhem of various kinds.
6080
608147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6082 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6083 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6084 the right test for positive values.
6085
608648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6087 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6088 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6089 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6090 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6091 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6092 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6093 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6094 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6095 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6096 envelope.
6097
609849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6099 module.
6100
610150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6102 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6103 forbidding it.
6104
610551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6106 the existing equality matching.
6107
610852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6109 dealing with inode numbers.
6110
611153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6112 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6113 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6114
611554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6116 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6117 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6118 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6119 local_scan().
6120
612155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6122 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6123 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6124 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6125 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6126 relay addresses has also been removed.
6127
612856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6129
613057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6131 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6132 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6133
613458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6135 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6136 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6137 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6138 processing applies to CR:
6139
6140 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6141 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6142
6143 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6144 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6145 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6146 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6147
614859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6149 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6150 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6151
615260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6153 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6154 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6155 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6156 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6157 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6158 arisen.
6159
616061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6161 program routers.
6162
616362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6164 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6165 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6166 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6167 adds:
6168
6169 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6170
6171 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6172
6173 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6174
617563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6176 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6177 not considered personal.
6178
617964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6180
618165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6182
618366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6184
618567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6186 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6187 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6188 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6189 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6190 header lines, and spool format errors.
6191
619268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6193 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6194 for more flexibility.
6195
619669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6197 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6198 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6199
620070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6201 Sabourenkov.
6202
620371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6204 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6205 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6206 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6207 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6208 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6209 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6210 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6211 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6212
621372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6214 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6215 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6216 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6217 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6218 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6219 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6220
622173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6222 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6223 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6224
622574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6226 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6227 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6228 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6229 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6230 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6231 instead of killing the process with assert().
6232
623375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6234 than Unicode encoding.
6235
623676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6237 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6238 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6239 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6240
624177. Added process_log_path.
6242
624378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6244 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6245
624679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6247 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6248
624980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6250 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6251 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6252
625381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6254 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6255 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6256 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6257 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6258 were applied:
6259
6260 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6261 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6262 as invalid.
6263
626482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6265 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6266 they will be used during message reception.
6267
6268
6269Exim version 4.20
6270-----------------
6271
6272The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6273
6274****