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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
01a4a5c5 15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
37
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38JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
39 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 40 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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42JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
43
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44JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
45 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
46
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47JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
48 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
49
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50JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
51 /defer_ok option.
52
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53JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
54 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
55
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.
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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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92HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
93 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
94
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95JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
96
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97JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
98
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99JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
100 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
101 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
102 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
103
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104JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
105
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106JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
107 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
108
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109JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
110 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
111
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112JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
113
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114JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
115
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116JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
117
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118JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
119 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
120
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124TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
125 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
126 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
127 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
128 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
129 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
130 the script parsing/test process like normal.
131
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132TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
133 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
134 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
135 function when detected.
136
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137JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
138 cause callback expansion.
139
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140TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
141 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
142 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
143 instead of bool when processing it.
144
0f06b4f2 145JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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146 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
147
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148JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
149
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150JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
151
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152TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
153
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154TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
155 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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157JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
158 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
159 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
160 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
161 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
162 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
163
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164JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
165 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
166 exceeded it.
167
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168JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
169 version 3.3.6 or later.
170
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171JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
172 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
173 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 174 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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175 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
176 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
177 option is defined.
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179TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
180 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
181
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182JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
183 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
184 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
185 matches.
186
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187JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
188 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
189 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
190
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191JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
192 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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193
194JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
195 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
196 syntax errors.
197
3394b36a 198JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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199
200JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
201 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
202
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203TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
204 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
205 tarball.
206
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207JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
208
209JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
210 Bug 1561.
211
212JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
213 output list separator was used.
214
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218TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
219 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
220 return.
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222JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
223 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
224
225JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
226
227TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 228 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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233
234TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
235
236 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
237 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
238 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
239 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
240 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
241 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
242
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243TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
244 utilities have not been installed.
245
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246JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
247 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
248
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249TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
250 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
251
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252TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
253 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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254 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
255 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 256
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257JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
258
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259TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
260 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
261
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262PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
263 not dns_use_dnssec.
264
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265JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
266
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267TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
268 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
269 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
270
8ddef691 271TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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272 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
273 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
274 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
275 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 276 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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278JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
279
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280JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
281 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
282
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283JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
284 failed delivery.
285
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286JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
287
511a6c14 288JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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290JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
291 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 292
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293JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
294 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
295
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296TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
297
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298JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
299
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300JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
301 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
302
303 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
304 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
305 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
306
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307TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
308 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
309 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
310 analysis.
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312JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
313
8c51eead 314JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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315 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
316 lookup).
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318TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
319 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
320 Schlichting.
35aba663 321
fd3b6a4a 322JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 323 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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325TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
326 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
327
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328JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
329
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330TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
331 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
332 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
333
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334JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
335 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
336
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337JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
338 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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339 hosts_request_ocsp.
340
ed3bba5f 341JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 342 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 343 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 344
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345JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
346
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347TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
348 Christian Aistleitner.
349
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350JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
351
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352TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
353 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
354
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355JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
356 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
357
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358JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
359 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
360
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361TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
362 support and error reporting did not work properly.
363
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364TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
365 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
366
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367TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
368 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
369 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
370
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371JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
372
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373PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
374 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
375 Jasper Wallace.
376
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377JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
378
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379TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
380 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
381 CVE-2014-2972
382
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387PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
388
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389PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
390 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
391
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392PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
393 by GnuTLS.
394
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395PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
396 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
397 routines.
398
13363eba 399PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 400
66645890 401PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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402 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
403 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
404 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
405 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 407PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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408 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
409 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
410 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 411 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 412 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 414TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 415
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416TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
417
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418TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
419 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
420
ae0e32ee 421TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 422 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 423 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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425TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 426
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427TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
428
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429TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
430 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
431
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432JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
433
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434JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
435
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436PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
437
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438NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
439 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 440
585121e2 441JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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443PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
444 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
445 function.
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447PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
448 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
449
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450JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
451 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
452 "acl = name arg..."
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454JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
455
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456JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
457
ea722490 458JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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459 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
460
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461JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
462 Bugzilla 884.
463
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464JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
465 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
466
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467JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
468 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
469
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470PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
471 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 472 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 473
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474JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
475 authenticators.
476
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477JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
478 for control.
479
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480PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
481
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482PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
483 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
484 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
485 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
486
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487TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
488
489 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
490 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
491 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
492 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
493 the retry rules.
494
495 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
496 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
497 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
498
499 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
500 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
501 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
502 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
503
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504 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
505 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
506 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
507 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
508 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
509 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
510 delivery, as in LMTP.
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511
512 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
513 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
514
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515TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
516
517 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
518
519 Resent-From: f
520
521 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
522 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
523 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
524 username as equal to the username.
525
526 This change corrects that bug.
527
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528GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
529 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
530 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
531
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532TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
533
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534PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
535 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
536 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
537 NULL dereference and crash.
538
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539JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
540
6f5a440a
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541PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
542 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
543 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
544
514ee161
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545SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
546
fd98a5c6
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547JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
548 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
549 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
550 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
551 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
552 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
553 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
554 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
555 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
556 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
557 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
558
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559PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
560 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
561
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562PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
563 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
564 Bugzilla 880.
565
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566PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
567 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
568 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
569 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
570 an empty string is now equivalent.
571
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572PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
573 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
574 not performing validation itself.
575
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576PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
577 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
578
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579JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
580 Bugzilla 321, 823.
581
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582TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
583
8c020188
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584PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
585 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
586 other false fix of the same issue.
587 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
588 Bugzilla 1363.
589
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590PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
591 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
592
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593PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
594 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
595 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
596
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597PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
598 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
599 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
600
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601TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
602
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603JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
604
2d07a215
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605TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
606 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
607
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608TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
609 Alexander Miroch.
610
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611TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
612 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
613 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
614 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
615 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 616
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617TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
618 the src/util/ subdirectory.
619
581d7bee 620TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 621 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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622 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
623
624TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
625 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
626 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
627 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
628
237b2cf2
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629TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
630
9fc5a352
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631TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
632 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
633 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 634
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635TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
636
e2cebd74
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637TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
638 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
639 interaction.
640
641TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
642 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
643
2519e60d
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644TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
645 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
646
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648Exim version 4.80.1
649-------------------
650
651PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
652 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 653 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 654
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657-----------------
658
659PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
660 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
661 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
662
23c7e742
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663NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
664
b322aac8
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665NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
666 improved.
667
4a891427
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668NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
669
c1e794ba 670PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 671
97753960
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672PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
673
674PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
675 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
676
df6303fa
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677PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
678 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
679
7e6a8985
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680PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
681 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
682
f1e05cc7 683PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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684 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
685 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 686
4c287009
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687PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
688
b98bb9ac
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689PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
690 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
691
4a6a987a
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692PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
693
c45dd180 694PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 695
7db8d074
PP
696PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
697 non-compliant senders.
698 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
699
eae0036b 700NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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701 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
702 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
703
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704PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
705 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
706 in spool file corruption.
707
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708PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
709 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
710 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
711 "Got SSL error 2".
712
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713TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
714 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
715 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
716
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717JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
718 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
719
9e45c72b
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720JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
721
e74376d8
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722PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
723 diagnostics.
724 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
725
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726PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
727 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
728 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
729
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730PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
731 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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732 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
733 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 734
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735PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
736 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
737
5bfb4cdf
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738PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
739 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
740 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
741 resolver implementation change.
742
c6e95d22
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743PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
744 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
745
9cbad13b
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746PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
747
9ee44efb
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748PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
749
6a6084f8
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750PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
751 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
752
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753PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
754 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
755
9e45c72b 756JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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757 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
758
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759PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
760 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
761 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
762 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 763 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 764
53947857 765PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 766
eae0036b 767PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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768 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
769 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 770
9e45c72b 771JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 772
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773PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
774 read-only, out of scope).
775 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
776
08488c86
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777PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
778 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
779 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
780 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
781
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782PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
783
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784PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
785 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
786 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
787 real issues in debug logging.
788
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789PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
790 assignment on my part. Fixed.
791
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792PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
793 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
794 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
795
796PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
797 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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798 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
799 problems.
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801PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
802 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
803
57eb9e91 804PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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805 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
806 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
807 needs to override this, it can.
808
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809PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
810 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
811 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
812
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813PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
814 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
815 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
816 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
817
3ecab157 818PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 819
0599f9cf 820
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821Exim version 4.77
822-----------------
823
824PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
825 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
826
f1a29782
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827TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
828
ab42bd23
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829TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
830 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 831
0ca0cf52
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832TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
833 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
834
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835TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
836 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
837 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
838
839 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
840 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
841 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
842 not safe for signals.
843
844 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
845 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
846 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
847 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
848 exiwhat.
849
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850TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
851
852 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
853 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
854 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
855 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
856 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
857
858 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
859 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
860 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
861 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
862 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
863 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
864
865 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
866 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
867 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
868 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
869
870 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
871 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
872 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
873 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
874
875 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
876 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
877 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
878 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
879 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
880 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
881 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
882 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
883 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
884
885 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
886 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
887 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
888 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
889
890 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
891 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
892 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
893 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
894 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
895 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
896 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
897 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
898 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
899 details in the main documentation.
900
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901TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
902
792e8a19
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903TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
904
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905TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
906 repository when doing development or release builds.
907
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908PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
909 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 910
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911PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
912 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
913 Bugzilla 97.
914
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915PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
916
9e949f00 917PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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918 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
919
920PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
921 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 922
555ae6af 923PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
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924 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
925
926PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
927 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 928
6f7fe114
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929PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
930 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
931
c566dd90
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932PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
933 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
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934 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
935 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 936
d6cc7c78 937PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
938 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
939 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
940
0d0e4455
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941PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
942
3399bb60 943PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
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944
945PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
946 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
947
0ca0cf52 948
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949Exim version 4.76
950-----------------
951
952PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
953
754a0503
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954PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
955 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
956
c0c7b2da
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957PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
958
e97d1f08
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959PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
960
084c1d8c
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961PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
962 Bugzilla 1098.
963
4e7ee012
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964PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
965 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 966
c8d52a00
PP
967TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
968 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
969
54e7ce4a
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970PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
971 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
972
5ee6f336
PP
973PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
974 Bugzilla 1104.
975
c8d52a00 976TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
977 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
978
979TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
980 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
981 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
982 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
983
984PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
985 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 986
10906672 987
aa097c4c
NM
988Exim version 4.75
989-----------------
990
4c9ef03a 991NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
992 Bugzilla 1073
993
7f3d9eff
TF
994TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
995 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
996 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
997
159f52d2
TF
998TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
999 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1000
0cc9542a
PP
1001PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1002 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1003 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1004
f7274286
PP
1005PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1006 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1007
7b797365
PP
1008PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1009 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1010
caacae52
NM
1011NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1012 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1013
09dcaba9
NM
1014NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1015 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1016
bc19a55b
PP
1017PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1018 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1019
bd4c9759
NM
1020NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1021 Fixes bug 943.
1022
b72aab72
PP
1023PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1024 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1025
2fe76745
PP
1026PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1027 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1028
76aa570c
PP
1029PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1030 SQL string expansion failure details.
1031 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1032
f1e5fef5
PP
1033PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1034 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1035
4d805ee9
PP
1036PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1037 extern declarations in function scope.
1038 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1039
cd59ab18
PP
1040PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1041 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1042 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1043 a kernel bug).
1044
332f5cf3
PP
1045PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1046 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1047
29cfeb94
PP
1048PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1049 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1050
660242ad
PP
1051PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1052 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1053
bc4bc4c5
PP
1054PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1055 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1056
2e64baa9
NM
1057NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1058 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1059 Dennis Davis.
1060
bddd7526
PP
1061PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1062
6bac1a9a
PP
1063PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1064
552193f0
NM
1065NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1066 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1067
1b587e48
TF
1068TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1069 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1070
aa097c4c 1071
8c07b69f
TF
1072Exim version 4.74
1073-----------------
1074
1075TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1076 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1077
c0ea85ab
TF
1078TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1079 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1080
0761d44e
TF
1081TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1082
0a349494
PP
1083DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1084 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1085 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1086
1087PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1088 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1089 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1090
fea24b2e
PP
1091PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1092 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1093 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1094 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1095
6545de78
PP
1096PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1097 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1098 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1099 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1100
1670ef10
PP
1101PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1102 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1103 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1104 arbitrary files.
1105
c0886197
PP
1106PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1107 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1108
b7487bce
PP
1109PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1110 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1111 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1112 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1113 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1114
8c07b69f 1115
97fd1e48 1116Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1117-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1118
1119PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1120 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1121 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1122
6901c596
PP
1123PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1124 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1125
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1126JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1127
77bb000f
PP
1128PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1129
a29e5231
PP
1130PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1131
ec5a0394 1132PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1133
55c75993
PP
1134PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1135
453a6645 1136PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1137 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1138 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1139 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1140
8544e77a
PP
1141PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1142 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1143 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1144 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1145 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1146
83e029d5
PP
1147PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1148
ed7f7860
PP
1149PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1150
7d9f747b
PP
1151PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1152
4b2241d2
PP
1153PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1154
10385c15
PP
1155PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1156
dbc4b90d
PP
1157PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1158
532be449
PP
1159PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1160
6a8de854 1161PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1162 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1163 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1164
5dc43717
JJ
1165JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1166
1167JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1168 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1169
3346ab01
PP
1170PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1171 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1172
491fab4c
PP
1173PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1174 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1175 Notification from John Horne.
1176
13eb9497
PP
1177PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1178 compatible.
1179
1180PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1181 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1182 it normally works.
1183
7f36d675
DW
1184DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1185 access.
1186
c1d94452
DW
1187DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1188 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1189 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1190
e2f5dc15
DW
1191DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1192 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1193 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1194 configuration file.
1195
cd25e41d
DW
1196DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1197 option (effectively making it always true).
1198
261dc43e
DW
1199DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1200 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1201
fa32850b
DW
1202DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1203 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1204
79d4bc3d
PP
1205PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1206 run-time user, instead of root.
1207
43236f35 1208PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1209 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1210
fb08281f
DW
1211DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1212 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1213 arguments.
3346ab01 1214
74935b98
DW
1215DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1216 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1217 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1218
90b6341f
DW
1219DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1220
57730b52
ML
1221NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1222
66581d1e 1223
465e92cf
JJ
1224Exim version 4.72
1225-----------------
1226
453a6645
PP
1227JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1228 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1229 typos
465e92cf 1230
453a6645
PP
1231JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1232 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1233 (Finput)
edae0343 1234
9bd3e22c
NM
1235NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1236 Patch from Alain Williams
1237
bb576ff7
NM
1238NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1239
5a1a5845
NM
1240NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1241 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1242
981a9fad
NM
1243NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1244 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1245
7fc497ee
NM
1246NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1247
1a41defa
JJ
1248JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1249
a466095c 1250NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1251 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1252
94a6bd0b
NM
1253TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1254
1255TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1256
1257MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1258 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1259 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1260
c1b141a8
NM
1261NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1262 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1263
b26eacf1 1264NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1265 Patch by Simon Arlott
1266
179c5980 1267PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1268 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1269
9bd3e22c 1270
7c6d71af
NM
1271Exim version 4.71
1272-----------------
1273
7d9f747b 1274TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1275
f013fb92
NM
1276NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1277
0eb8eedd
NM
1278NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1279
663ee6d9
NM
1280NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1281
177ebd9b
NM
1282NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1283
7c6d71af 1284
210f147e
NM
1285Exim version 4.70
1286-----------------
1287
cdd3bb85 1288TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1289 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1290
1291TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1292 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1293 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1294
1295TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1296 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1297 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1298
1299TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1300 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1301
210f147e
NM
1302NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1303 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1304 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1305 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1306
deafd5b3
NM
1307NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1308 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1309 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1310
089793a4
TF
1311TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1312
5f16ca82
TF
1313TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1314
dae9d94e 1315NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1316 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1317
7d9f747b 1318NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1319
06864c44
TF
1320TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1321 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1322 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1323 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1324
65a7d8c3 1325NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1326 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1327
23510047 1328TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1329
7d9f747b 1330NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1331
7d8eec3a 1332NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1333 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1334
89dec7b6
TF
1335TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1336 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1337
a99de90c
TF
1338TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1339 that they are available at delivery time.
1340
e2803e40
TF
1341TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1342
7199e1ee
TF
1343TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1344 incoming_port log selectors.
1345
e276e04b
TF
1346TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1347 setting expands to an empty string.
1348
ce552449 1349NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1350 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1351
e765a0f1 1352NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1353 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1354
4f054c63 1355NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1356 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1357
7d9f747b
PP
1358NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1359 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1360
7d9f747b
PP
1361NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1362 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1363
b52bc06e 1364NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1365 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1366
447de4b0
NM
1367NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1368
4c69d561 1369NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1370 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1371
d5c39246 1372NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1373 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1374
0b23848a
TK
1375TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1376
8f3414a1 1377NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1378 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1379
fb6f955d
NM
1380NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1381
1382NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1383
7d9f747b
PP
1384NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1385 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1386
7d9f747b
PP
1387NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1388 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1389
7d9f747b
PP
1390NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1391 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1392
7d9f747b
PP
1393NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1394 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1395
7d9f747b
PP
1396NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1397 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1398
7d9f747b
PP
1399NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1400 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1401
7d9f747b
PP
1402NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1403 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1404
7d9f747b 1405NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1406 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1407
7d9f747b 1408NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1409
7d9f747b
PP
1410NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1411 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1412
7d9f747b 1413NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1414
7d9f747b 1415NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1416
7d9f747b 1417NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1418
7d9f747b 1419NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1420
17792b53 1421NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1422 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1423
7d9f747b
PP
1424NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1425 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1426
91576cec 1427NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1428 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1429
7d9f747b
PP
1430NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1431 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1432
7d9f747b 1433NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1434
7d9f747b 1435NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1436
7d9f747b 1437NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1438
7d9f747b 1439NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1440
deafd5b3 1441
47db1125
NM
1442Exim version 4.69
1443-----------------
1444
4b3504d0
TK
1445TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1446 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1447 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1448
1449 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1450 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1451 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1452 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1453 build errors in sieve.c.
1454
81ea09ca
NM
1455NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1456 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1457 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1458
f13cddcb
SC
1459SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1460
7d9f747b 1461NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1462
7d9f747b 1463NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1464
7d9f747b 1465NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1466
1467
eb4c0de6
PH
1468Exim version 4.68
1469-----------------
1470
1471PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1472
6a3bceb1
PH
1473PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1474 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1475 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1476 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1477 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1478 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1479 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1480 for iplsearch lookups.
1481
1482 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1483 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1484 previously such lookups could never work.
1485
1486 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1487 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1488 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1489
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TK
1490TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1491 version.
1492
0806a9c5
MH
1493MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1494 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1495 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1496 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1497 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1498 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1499
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TK
1500TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1501 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1502
0f2cbd1b
MH
1503MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1504 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1505 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1506 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1507 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1508 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1509
2b85bce7
PH
1510PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1511 local_scan API.
1512
93655c46
PH
1513PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1514
6c512171
PH
1515PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1516 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1517 encrypted.
1518
1519PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1520 by clients under certain conditions.
1521
aa6dc513
PH
1522PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1523 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1524
a96603a0
PH
1525PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1526
8f240103
PH
1527PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1528 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1529
1530PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1531
d677b2f2
PH
1532PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1533
d52120f2
PH
1534PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1535
64f2600a
PH
1536PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1537 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1538
8669f003
PH
1539PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1540
a4dc33a8
PH
1541PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1542 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1543
d6a60c0f
PH
1544PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1545
8f128379
PH
1546PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1547
8932dffe
PH
1548PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1549 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1550 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1551 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1552
ddea74fa 1553PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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PH
1554 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1555 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1556
ddea74fa 1557PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1558 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1559
ddea74fa
PH
1560PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1561
ce9f225c
PH
1562PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1563
19897d52
PH
1564PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1565
bc64a74d
PH
1566PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1567 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1568 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1569
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PH
1571Exim version 4.67
1572-----------------
1573
22ad45c9
MH
1574MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1575 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1576 Jan Srzednicki.
1577
b4ed4da0
PH
1578PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1579 issue a MAIL command.
1580
431b7361
PH
1581PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1582
1583 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1584
1585 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1586 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1587 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1588 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1589 item. This has been fixed.
1590
1591PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1592 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1593
83da1223
PH
1594PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1595 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1596
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PH
1597PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1598 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1599 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1600
34c5e8dd
SC
1601SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1602
bbe15da8
PH
1603PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1604 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1605 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1606 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1607 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1608
0e8a9471
MH
1609MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1610 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1611 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1612
f0872424
PH
1613PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1614 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1615 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1616 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1617
b01dd148
PH
1618PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1619
6bf342e1
PH
1620PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1621
273f34d0
PH
1622PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1623 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1624 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1625 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1626 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1627
cf8b11a5
PH
1628PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1629
41c7c167
PH
1630PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1631 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1632 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1633 values).
1634
9c57cbc0
PH
1635PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1636
f3f065bb
PH
1637PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1638
047bdd8c
PH
1639PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1640
0ce9abe6
PH
1641PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1642
0e22dfd1
PH
1643PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1644
4c590bd1
PH
1645PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1646 no_callout_flush is set.
1647
09945f1e
PH
1648PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1649 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1650 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1651 fixed.
1652
c51b8e75
PH
1653PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1654
e28326d8
PH
1655PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1656 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1657 other ACL rejections are.
1658
75b1493f
PH
1659PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1660 with slight modification.
1661
7c5214ec
PH
1662PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1663 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1664
4311097e
PH
1665PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1666 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1667 connection.
1668
29f89cad
PH
1669PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1670 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1671
5e687460
SC
1672SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1673
c3611384
PH
1674PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1675 expansion side effects.
1676
5a11a7b4
PH
1677PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1678 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1679 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1680 be the same.
1681
0e20aff9
MH
1682MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1683 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1684 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1685
ca86f471
PH
1686PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1687 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1688 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1689 were accidentally chopped off.
1690
a14e5636
PH
1691PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1692 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1693 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1694 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1695 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1696 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1697 pipelining has not been advertised.
1698
ec95d1a6
PH
1699PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1700
42855d71
PH
1701PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1702 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1703 This has been fixed.
1704
57c2c631
PH
1705PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1706 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1707 reported on Solaris.
1708
58c01c94
PH
1709PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1710 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1711 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1712 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1713 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1714 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1715 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1716
dee5a20a
PH
1717PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1718 cpus.
1719
d2ee6114
PH
1720PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1721
b2d5182b
PH
1722PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1723
79749a79
PH
1724PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1725 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
1726 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1727 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1728 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1729 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1730
c456d9bb
PH
1731PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1732 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1733 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1734 host_all_ignored option.
1735
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PH
1736PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1737 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1738 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1739 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1740 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1741 is what is supposed to happen).
1742
ebeaf996
PH
1743PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1744 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1745 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1746 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1747 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1748 uses the Exim user.
1749
2679d413
PH
1750PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1751 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1752 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1753 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1754 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1755 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1756 users.
1757
84024b72
PH
1758PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1759
8005d38e
SC
1760SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1761 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1762 (Jez Hancock).
1763 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1764 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1765
3298c6c6
SC
1766SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1767
a43a27c5
PH
1768PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1769
58eb016e 1770PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1771 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1772 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1773 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1774 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1775 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1776 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1777 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1778 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1779 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1780 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1781
b43a74ea
PH
1782PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1783 advertised in response to EHLO.
1784
b4ed4da0 1785
5dd1517f
PH
1786Exim version 4.66
1787-----------------
1788
1789PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1790 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1791
1792 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1793 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1794
1795 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1796 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1797 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1798
1799 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1800 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1801 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1802 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1803 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1804
1805
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1806Exim version 4.65
1807-----------------
1808
1809TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1810 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1811 versions. (#438)
1812
d6066548
MH
1813MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1814 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1815 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1816
4362ff0d
PH
1817PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1818 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1819 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1820 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1821 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1822 rather than extend the field.
1823
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1825Exim version 4.64
1826-----------------
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1828TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1829 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1830 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1831 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1832 these files.
1833
1834TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1835 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1836 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1837
1838TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1839 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1840 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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1841
1842TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1843 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1844 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1845 in the field name.
1846
2b1c6e3a
PH
1847PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1848 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1849 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1850 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1851 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1852 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1853 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1854 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1855 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1856 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1857 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1858
1f872c80
PH
1859PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1860 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1861
1862PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1863 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1864 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1865 ignores EPIPE as well.
1866
d203e649
PH
1867PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1868 (quoted-printable decoding).
1869
cc2ed8f7 1870PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1871 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1872
ddfcd446
PH
1873PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1874
d45b1de8
PH
1875PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1876
1877PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1878
38a0a95f 1879PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1880 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1881
a2405d83
JJ
1882JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1883 in 4.64-PH/09.
1884
1885JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1886 miscellaneous code fixes
1887
6ea85e9a
PH
1888PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1889 rejections.
1890
26da7e20
PH
1891PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1892 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1893 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1894 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1895 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1896 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1897 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1898 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1899
14aa5a05 1900PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1901 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1902 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1903 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1904 function.
1905 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1906 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1907 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1908 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1909 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1910 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1911 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1912 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1913 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1914
ff75a1f7
PH
1915PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1916 decoding.
1917
e6f6568e
PH
1918PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1919 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1920 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1921 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1922 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1923 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1924 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1925 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1926
d6f6e0dc
PH
1927PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1928 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1929 list.
1930
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1931PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1932 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1933 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1934 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1935 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1936 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1937 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1938 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1939 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1940 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1941 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1942 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1943 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1944
08955dd3
PH
1945PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1946 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1947 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1948 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1949 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1950 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1951 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1952
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1953PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1954 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1955 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1956 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1957 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1958 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1959 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1960 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1961 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1962 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1963
602e59e5
PH
1964PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1965 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1966 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1967 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1968 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1969
411ef850
PH
1970PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1971 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1972 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1973 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1974 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1975 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1976 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1977
7befa435
PH
1978PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1979 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1980 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1981 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1982 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1983 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1984 been verified.
1985
48da4259 1986PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1987 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1988 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1989 and authorization.)
1990
48da4259
PH
1991PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1992 if any retry times were supplied.
1993
d1d5595c
PH
1994PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1995 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1996 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1997
0ef732d9
PH
1998PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1999
328895cc
PH
2000PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2001
fd700877
PH
2002PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2003 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2004 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2005 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2006 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2007 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2008
8dce1a6f
PH
2009PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2010 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2011
17af4a17
PH
2012PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2013 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2014 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2015
2016PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2017 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2018 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2019 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2020 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2021 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2022 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2023 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2024 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2025
2026 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2027 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2028 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2029 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2030 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2031 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2032 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2033 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2034 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2035
2036 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2037 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2038 hammering the server.
2039
c1114884
PH
2040PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2041 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2042
7a0743eb
PH
2043PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2044
0d85fa3f
PH
2045PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2046 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2047 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2048
1bf43b78
PH
2049PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2050 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2051 one case where this was not true.
2052
520de300
PH
2053PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2054 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2055 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2056 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2057 fails.
2058
48c7f9e2
PH
2059PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2060 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2061 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2062 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2063 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2064 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2065 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2066 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2067 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2068 smtp transport.
2069
99ea1c86
PH
2070PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2071 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2072 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2073 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2074
a2042e78
PH
2075PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2076 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2077
4fbcfc2e
PH
2078PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2079 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2080 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2081
aa41d2de
PH
2082PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2083
af561417
PH
2084PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2085
3cc66b45
PH
2086PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2087
194cc0e4
PH
2088PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2089 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2090 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2091 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2092
a401ddaa
PH
2093PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2094 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2095
4e88a19f
PH
2096PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2097 be meaningful with "accept".
2098
d7d7b289
SC
2099SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2100 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2101
2102SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2103 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2104 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2105
2106SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2107 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2108 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2109 there is data to show.
2110 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2111
2112SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2113 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2114 as well as the number of messages.
2115
2116SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2117 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2118 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2119
2120SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2121 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2122 have a flag are now skipped.
2123
2124SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2125 Added the -emptyok flag.
2126
2127SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2128 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2129
0ea2a468
JJ
2130JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2131 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2132 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2133
2134JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2135 match 4.64-PH/13
2136
2137JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2138 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2139
2140JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2141
2142JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2143 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2144
8a10f5a4
PH
2145PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2146
30e18802
PH
2147PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2148 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2149 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2150 contravention of the specifications.
2151
55728a4f
PH
2152PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2153 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2154 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2155
d7837193
PH
2156PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2157 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2158 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2159
87054a31
PH
2160PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2161
ea2c01d2
MH
2162MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2163 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2164 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2165 some point in the past.
2166
e4fa6968
PH
2167PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2168 transport during callout processing was broken.
2169
56f5d9bd
PH
2170PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2171 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2172
922e1c28
PH
2173PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2174 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2175
21eb6e72
PH
2176PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2177 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2178
a0540757
PH
2179PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2180
944e9e9c 2181
478be7b0
SC
2182Exim version 4.63
2183-----------------
2184
2185SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2186 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2187
2188SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2189 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2190 there is data to show.
2191 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2192
2193SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2194 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2195
2b965a65
TF
2196TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2197 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2198
45b91596
PH
2199TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2200 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2201
c59f5781
TF
2202TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2203 submissions from trusted users.
2204
90fc3069
TF
2205TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2206 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2207
6083aca0
TF
2208TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2209 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2210 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2211 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2212 there is now a framework to start from.
2213
765b530f
PH
2214PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2215 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2216 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2217
4e167a8c
PH
2218PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2219
4608d683
PH
2220PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2221
b8dc3e4a
PH
2222PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2223
5418e93b
PH
2224PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2225 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2226 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2227
b4a9bda2
PH
2228PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2229 libradius.
2230
45b91596
PH
2231PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2232 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2233 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2234
5547e2c5
PH
2235PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2236 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2237 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2238 its arguments.
2239
dbcef0ea
PH
2240PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2241 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2242 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2243 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2244 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2245
25257489
PH
2246PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2247 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2248
c816d124
PH
2249PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2250
a9ccd69a
PH
2251PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2252 operations in malware.c.
2253
75fa1910
PH
2254PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2255 signatures.
2256
a7d7aa58
PH
2257PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2258 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2259 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2260 all.
2261
42119b09
PH
2262PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2263 statements to "add_header".
2264
41609df5
PH
2265PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2266 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2267
a5bd321b
PH
2268PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2269 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2270 latter.
2271
e85a7ad5 2272PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2273 so that it is now:
2274
e85a7ad5
PH
2275 ${if or { \
2276 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2277 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2278 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2279 }{no}{yes}}
2280
e85a7ad5
PH
2281 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2282 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2283
d8fe1c03
PH
2284PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2285 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2286
16282d2b
PH
2287PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2288 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2289 any possible encoding problems.
2290
35d40a98
PH
2291PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2292 but not after initializing Perl.
2293
034d99ab
PH
2294PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2295 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2296 apparently, which is not desirable.
2297
6ec97b1b
PH
2298PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2299 queries.
2300
e22ca4ac
JJ
2301JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2302 --not options
2303
2304JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2305
33d73e3b
PH
2306PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2307 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2308 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2309 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2310
9ecb03f3
PH
2311PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2312 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2313 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2314
084efe8d
PH
2315PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2316 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2317 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2318 0.12.
2319
366fc9f0
PH
2320PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2321 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2322 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2323 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2324 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2325
c59f5781 2326
c887c79e
TF
2327Exim version 4.62
2328-----------------
2329
2330TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2331 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2332
1cce3af8
PH
2333PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2334 patch).
2335
afb3eaaf
PH
2336PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2337 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2338 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2339 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2340 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2341 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2342 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2343 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2344 451 error is used.
2345
e173618b
PH
2346PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2347
dd16e114
PH
2348PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2349 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2350 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2351
f7fd3850
PH
2352PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2353 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2354 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2355 odd errors.
2356
d87df92c
PH
2357PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2358 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2359
7e9f683d
PH
2360PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2361 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2362 option (which defaults to 0600).
2363
bfad5236
PH
2364PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2365
01c490df
PH
2366PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2367 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2368 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2369 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2370 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2371 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2372 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2373
d6629cdc
PH
2374PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2375
1cce3af8 2376
214e2000
PH
2377Exim version 4.61
2378-----------------
2379
2380PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2381 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2382 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2383 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2384 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2385 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2386 addresses as local.
2387
f9daeae0
PH
2388PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2389 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2390
7e66e54d
PH
2391PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2392
c8ea1597
PH
2393PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2394 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2395 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2396 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2397 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2398 grumble.
2399
911f6fde
PH
2400PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2401 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2402
47ca6d6c
PH
2403PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2404 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2405 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2406 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2407 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2408
ed0e9820
PH
2409PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2410 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2411 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2412 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2413
eff37e47
PH
2414PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2415 be the same on different OS.
2416
1921d2ea
PH
2417PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2418 testing.
2419
b3f69ca8
JJ
2420JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2421 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2422
2423JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2424 in 4.61-PH/06
2425
424a1c63
PH
2426PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2427 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2428 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2429 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2430 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2431 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2432 bounce message.
2433
7a100415
PH
2434PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2435 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2436 when Exim was called.
2437
19b9dc85
PH
2438PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2439 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2440
309bd837
PH
2441PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2442 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2443 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2444 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2445
59e82a2a
PH
2446PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2447 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2448 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2449 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2450 changes:
2451
2452 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2453 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2454 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2455
2456 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2457 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2458 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2459
9edc04ce
PH
2460PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2461 feature).
2462
1349e1e5
PH
2463PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2464 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2465 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2466 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2467 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2468 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2469 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2470 values from the SRV records were lost.
2471
ea49d0e1
PH
2472PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2473 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2474 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2475
064a94c9
PH
2476PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2477 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2478 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2479
727071f8
PH
2480PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2481 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2482 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2483 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2484 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2485 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2486 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2487 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2488 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2489 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2490
f78eb7c6
PH
2491PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2492 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2493 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2494
21c28500
PH
2495PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2496 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2497
2498PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2499 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2500 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2501 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2502 is given.
2503
1688f43b
PH
2504PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2505 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2506 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2507
2508PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2509 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2510 PH/23 above applies.
2511
9675b384
PH
2512PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2513 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2514 (for which there is an explicit test).
2515
6a3f1455
PH
2516PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2517
dac79d3e
PH
2518PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2519 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2520 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2521 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2522 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2523
5977a0b3
PH
2524PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2525 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2526 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2527 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2528
c91535f3
PH
2529PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2530 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2531 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2532
0d46a8c8
PH
2533PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2534
278c6e6c
PH
2535PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2536
2cbb4081
PH
2537PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2538 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2539 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2540
3eef829e
PH
2541PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2542 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2543 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2544 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2545 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2546
1ab95fa6
PH
2547PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2548 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2549 the message gets confusing).
2550
230205fc
PH
2551PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2552 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2553 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2554 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2555
75e0e026
PH
2556PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2557 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2558 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2559 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2560 same order.
2561
2562PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2563 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2564 the different processes.
2565
145396a6
PH
2566PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2567
3cd34f13
PH
2568PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2569
11121d3d
JJ
2570JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2571 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2572
2573JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2574 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2575
2576JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2577 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2578 messages matching specified criteria.
2579
8def5aaf
PH
2580PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2581
929ba01c
PH
2582PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2583 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2584
2632889e
PH
2585PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2586 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2587 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2588 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2589 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2590 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2591 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2592 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2593 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2594 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2595
944a9c55
PH
2596PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2597 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2598 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2599
4a23603b
PH
2600PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2601
4730f942
PH
2602PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2603 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2604 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2605 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2606 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2607 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2608 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2609 the variable.
2610
30dba1e6
PH
2611PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2612 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2613
382afc6b
PH
2614PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2615
a86229cf
PH
2616PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2617
50c99ba6
PH
2618PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2619
d35e429d
PH
2620PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2621 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2622 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2623 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2624 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2625 size of the count of files.
2626
f90d018c
PH
2627PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2628
75def545
PH
2629PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2630 used in LMTP mode:
2631
2632 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2633 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2634 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2635 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2636
2637 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2638 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2639 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2640
2641PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2642 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2643 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2644 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2645 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2646
c46782ef
PH
2647PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2648 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2649
71fafd95
PH
2650PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2651 will now be deprecated.
2652
2c5db4fd
PH
2653PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2654
9cf6b11a
JJ
2655JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2656 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2657 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2658
2659JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2660 with very large, slow to parse queues
2661
2662JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2663
2664JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2665
898d150f
PH
2666PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2667 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2668 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2669 SMTP output lines.
2670
46218253
PH
2671PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2672 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2673 Sieve code now uses this.
2674
e97957bc
PH
2675PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2676 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2677
81e509d7
PH
2678PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2679 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2680
3d240ff7
PH
2681PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2682
b37c4101
PH
2683PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2684 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2685 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2686 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2687 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2688
79378e0f
PH
2689PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2690 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2691 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2692 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2693
e49c7bb4
PH
2694PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2695
d114ec46
PH
2696PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2697
f3d7df6c
PH
2698PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2699 is preferred over IPv4.
2700
715ab376
PH
2701PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2702 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2703 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2704 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2705 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2706 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2707 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2708
6b31b150
PH
2709PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2710 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2711 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2712
2713PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2714
d515a917
PH
2715PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2716 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2717 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2718 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2719 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2720 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2721 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2722 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2723 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2724 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2725 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2726
9b8fadde
PH
2727PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2728 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2729 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2730
214e2000 2731
5de37277
PH
2732Exim version 4.60
2733-----------------
2734
cc38ddbf
PH
2735PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2736
2737 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2738 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2739
2740 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2741 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2742 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2743
72fdd6ae
PH
2744PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2745
2746 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2747 not a single digit.
2748
2749 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2750 string.
2751
2752 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2753 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2754 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2755 silly things.
2756
2757 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2758 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2759
2760 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2761 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2762
cb741023
PH
2763PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2764 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2765 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2766
f174f16e
PH
2767PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2768 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2769
c25242d7
PH
2770PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2771 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2772
2773 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2774
2775 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2776 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2777 this:
2778
2779 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2780
82c19f95
PH
2781PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2782 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2783 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2784 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2785 identical. For example:
2786
2787 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2788
2789 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2790 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2791 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2792
d7ffbc12
PH
2793PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2794 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2795 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2796 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2797
9f526266
PH
2798PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2799 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2800 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2801 message.
2802
87fcc8b9
PH
2803PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2804
2805 o fixes some comments
2806 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2807 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2808 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2809 and documents the missing references header update
2810
2811 and most important:
2812
2813 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2814 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2815 result)
2816
456682f5
PH
2817PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2818 Electronic Mail") by including:
2819
2820 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2821
2822 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2823 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2824 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2825 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2826 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2827
2828 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2829
2830 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2831
2832 The auto-replied keyword:
2833
2834 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2835 message by an automatic process,
2836
2837 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2838
2839 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2840 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2841
2842 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2843 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2844 other messages.
2845
3e46c1aa
PH
2846PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2847 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2848
49826d12
PH
2849PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2850
eba0c039
PH
2851PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2852 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2853 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2854
a0d6ba8a
PH
2855PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2856 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2857 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2858
f0917727
PH
2859PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2860 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2861 and treats the condition as false.
2862
096fee00
PH
2863PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2864
024bd3c2
PH
2865PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2866 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2867 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2868 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2869 not changing the active code.
2870
2871 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2872 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2873
2874 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2875 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2876
df199fec
PH
2877PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2878 (Bugzilla #53).
2879
d27f1df3
PH
2880PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2881 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2882 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2883 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2884 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2885 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2886 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2887 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2888 the text comparison.
2889
96776534
PH
2890PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2891 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2892 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2893 The same fix has been applied.
2894
5de37277 2895
9a799bc0
PH
2896Exim version 4.54
2897-----------------
2898
2899PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2900 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2901 It now does.
2902
99a4b039
PH
2903PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2904 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2905
2906PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2907
4b233853
PH
2908PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2909 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2910 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2911 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2912 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2913
8857ccfd
PH
2914TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2915 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2916 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2917 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2918 or /domain=).
2919
433a2980
PH
2920PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2921 testing suite.
2922
3e46c1aa 2923
9a799bc0 2924
e3a311ba
TK
2925Exim version 4.53
2926-----------------
2927
2928TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2929 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2930
13b685f9
PH
2931PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2932
395ff96d
PH
2933PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2934
5b68f6e4
PH
2935PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2936 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2937 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2938
1ab52c69
PH
2939PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2940 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2941 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2942
b07e6aa3
PH
2943PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2944 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2945 operating systems.
2946
254e032f
PH
2947PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2948 ${stat: expansion item.
2949
3af76a81
PH
2950PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2951 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2952
2548ba04
PH
2953PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2954 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2955 file for comments.
2956
b6c6011d
PH
2957PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2958
cf39cf57
PH
2959PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2960 setting.
2961
f1513293
PH
2962PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2963 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2964
727549a4
PH
2965TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2966
af46795e
PH
2967PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2968 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2969 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2970 the end of the subprocess.
2971
d7b47fd0
PH
2972PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2973 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2974 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2975 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2976 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2977
ee744174
JJ
2978JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2979
b582ab87
PH
2980TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2981
41a13e0a
PH
2982PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2983 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2984
f625cc5a
PH
2985PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2986
2987PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2988
21f7af35
PH
2989PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2990 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2991 HP-UX compiler.
2992
31480e42
PH
2993PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2994
2d280592
PH
2995PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2996 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2997 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2998
7cd1141b
PH
2999PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3000 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3001
3002PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3003 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3004
750af86e
PH
3005PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3006 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3007
3008 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3009 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3010
3011 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3012 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3013 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3014 contributed by a Radius user.
3015
3016PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3017 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3018
4304270b
TK
3019TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3020 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3021
750af86e
PH
3022PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3023 available.
3024
64ffc24f
PH
3025PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3026 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3027 received.
3028
5dd9625b
PH
3029PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3030 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3031 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3032 header lines when this was not necessary.
3033
5591031b
PH
3034PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3035
ba18e66a
PH
3036PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3037 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3038 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3039 exists".
3040
9cec981f
PH
3041PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3042 -bV or -d is used.
3043
aa2b5c79
PH
3044PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3045 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3046 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3047 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3048
48a53b7f
PH
3049PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3050
1c59d63b
PH
3051PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3052
671012da
TK
3053TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3054
1509d3a8
PH
3055PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3056
3057PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3058 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3059 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3060 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3061 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3062 settings.
3063
3064PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3065
2fe1a124
PH
3066PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3067 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3068 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3069 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3070 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3071 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3072 which is clearly wrong.
3073
8800895a
PH
3074PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3075
ccfdb010
PH
3076PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3077 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3078 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3079 subsequently added.
3080
1130bfb0
PH
3081PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3082 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3083
ebcb507f
PH
3084PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3085
c35e155c
PH
3086PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3087 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3088
95d1f782
PH
3089PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3090 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3091
fd6de02e
PH
3092PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3093 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3094
58de37c5
PH
3095PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3096 recipients, not senders.
3097
261cf466
TF
3098TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3099 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3100
3ee512ff
PH
3101PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3102
e08c430f
PH
3103PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3104
bef5a11f
PH
3105PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3106 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3107 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3108 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3109
7546de58
TF
3110TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3111
e5d5a95f
TF
3112TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3113 clock is set back in time.
3114
2e88a017
TF
3115TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3116 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3117
a5f65aa4
TF
3118TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3119 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3120
e7726cbf
PH
3121PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3122 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3123 (see PH/47 above).
3124
a7fdad5b
TF
3125TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3126 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3127 header rewrites.
3128
6af56900
PH
3129PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3130 type ("H").
3131
0925ede6
PH
3132PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3133
66afa403
TF
3134TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3135 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3136 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3137
0154e85a
TF
3138TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3139 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3140 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3141 helo verification defer as a failure.
3142
16f12c76
PH
3143PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3144 actual error message.
3145
bbe902f0 3146
e5a9dba6
PH
3147Exim version 4.52
3148-----------------
3149
3150TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3151
22c3b60b
PH
3152PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3153 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3154 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3155 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3156
06a9b4b5
PH
3157TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3158
c1ac6996
PH
3159PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3160 can still be requested.
3161
9c7a242c
PH
3162PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3163 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3164 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3165 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3166
87ba3f5f
PH
3167TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3168 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3169 circumstances, but probably never did.
3170
3171PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3172 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3173 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3174 in the header line.
3175
29aba418
TF
3176TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3177
fe0dab11
TF
3178TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3179 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3180
11d337a4
TK
3181TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3182
3183TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3184
415c8f3b
PH
3185PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3186 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3187 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3188 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3189 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3190 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3191
958541e9
PH
3192PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3193 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3194 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3195 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3196 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3197 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3198
c206415f
TK
3199TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3200 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3201
2a4be8f9
PH
3202PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3203 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3204
1cba11c5
SC
3205SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3206 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3207
3208SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3209
3210SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3211
3212SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3213
3214SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3215
3216SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3217
3218SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3219
1005d00e
TK
3220TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3221
3222TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3223 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3224 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3225
3226TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3227 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3228 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3229 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3230
9b4768fa
PH
3231PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3232 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3233 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3234
3235PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3236 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3237 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3238 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3239
0d7eb84a
PH
3240PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3241 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3242 to be made).
3243
3244PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3245 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3246 should work with maildirs and everything.
3247
40727bee
TK
3248TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3249 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3250
554d2369
TF
3251TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3252 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3253
1f922db1
PH
3254PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3255 function for BDB 4.3.
3256
ef213c3b
PH
3257PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3258
8ac170f3
PH
3259PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3260 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3261 involved.
3262
b1c749bb
PH
3263PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3264 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3265 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3266 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3267 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3268 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3269
4aac9b49
PH
3270PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3271 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3272 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3273 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3274 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3275 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3276 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3277 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3278
294520c8
TK
3279TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3280 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3281 details.
3282
5bd022fe
PH
3283PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3284 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3285
90e9ce59
PH
3286PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3287 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3288 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3289 test. It is now used for both.
3290
5ea81592
PH
3291PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3292 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3293 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3294 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3295 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3296 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3297
c6c2dc1d
PH
3298PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3299 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3300 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3301 string_vformat().
3302
fffffe4c
PH
3303PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3304 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3305 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3306
9a26b6b2
PH
3307PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3308 experimental DomainKeys support:
3309
3310 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3311 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3312 the control was given.
3313
3314 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3315
4aee0225
PH
3316PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3317
32d668a5
PH
3318PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3319
8187c3f3
PH
3320PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3321 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3322 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3323 db.h files).
3324
ff790e47 3325PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3326 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3327 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3328 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3329 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3330 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3331 course.
ff790e47 3332
5417f6d1
PH
3333PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3334 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3335 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3336 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3337 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3338 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3339
59cf8544
PH
3340PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3341 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3342 do -d+all out of habit.
3343
e7ad8a65
PH
3344PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3345 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3346 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3347
ade42478
PH
3348PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3349 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3350 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3351 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3352 record types that Exim uses.
3353
182ad5cf
PH
3354PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3355 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3356 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3357 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3358 non-existent file that was broken.
3359
b0d9fc80
TK
3360TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3361 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3362
3363TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3364 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3365 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3366
3367TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3368
47c7a64a
PH
3369PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3370 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3371 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3372 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3373 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3374 same time.
3375
a388bce4
SC
3376SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3377 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3378 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3379 at a slight CPU cost.
3380
3381SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3382 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3383
3384SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3385 by Marc Sherman.
3386
0793e4ed
SC
3387SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3388
c58b88df
PH
3389PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3390 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3391
e7ad8a65 3392
7982096b
PH
3393Exim version 4.51
3394-----------------
3395
1a46a8c5
PH
3396TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3397 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3398
2f079f46 3399TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3400
3401TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3402
3403PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3404 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3405
3406PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3407 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3408 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3409 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3410 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3411 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3412 file.
3413
3414PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3415 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3416 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3417 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3418 these two options.
3419
3420PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3421 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3422 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3423 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3424 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3425 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3426 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3427 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3428
3429PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3430 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3431
3432PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3433 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3434 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3435 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3436 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3437 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3438
3439PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3440 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3441 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3442 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3443
3444PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3445 Finch).
3446
3447PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3448 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3449
49c2d5ea
PH
3450PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3451 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3452 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3453 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3454 message.
49c2d5ea 3455
bf759a8b
PH
3456PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3457
83364d30
PH
3458PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3459 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3460
7999bbd7
PH
3461PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3462 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3463 to what was transported.)
3464
7dbf77c9
PH
3465TF/01 Added $received_time.
3466
74e0617f
PH
3467PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3468 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3469 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3470 spamd_address settings.
3471
2f079f46
PH
3472PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3473 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3474 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3475 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3476 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3477
8c841523
PH
3478PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3479
7766a4f0
PH
3480PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3481 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3482 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3483 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3484 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3485
8b417f2c
PH
3486PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3487 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3488
901f42cb
PH
3489PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3490 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3491 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3492 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3493 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3494 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3495 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3496 for failure.
3497
f9b9210e
PH
3498PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3499 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3500 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3501 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3502 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3503 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3504 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3505 "input=".
3506
54cdb463
PH
3507PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3508
cf00dad6
PH
3509PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3510 driver and ACL definitions.
3511
acb1b346
PH
3512PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3513 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3514
c5ddb310
PH
3515PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3516 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3517 understands it better than I do:
3518
3519 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3520 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3521
3522 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3523 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3524 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3525 => three warnings about OTP not working
3526 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3527
3528 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3529 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3530 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3531 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3532 for each call.)
3533 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3534 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3535
3536 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3537 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3538 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3539
31619da6
PH
3540PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3541 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3542 specified.
3543
bebaf0fc
PH
3544PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3545 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3546 "Linux".
3547
475fe28a
PH
3548PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3549 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3550 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3551
3552 warn !verify = sender
3553 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3554
3555 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3556 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3557
7e8bec7a
PH
3558PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3559
3560 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3561 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3562
3563 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3564 nomenclature these days.)
3565
e4a89c47
PH
3566PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3567 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3568
5ca2a9a1
PH
3569PH/30 In these circumstances:
3570 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3571 . First host does not offer TLS;
3572 . First host accepts first address;
3573 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3574 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3575 . Second host accepts second address.
3576 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3577 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3578 address.
7e8bec7a 3579
c688b954
PH
3580PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3581 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3582 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3583 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3584 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3585
fed77020
PH
3586PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3587 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3588
7fe1560f
PH
3589PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3590 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3591
ebb6e6d5
PH
3592PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3593 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3594 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3595
9c4e8f60
PH
3596PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3597 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3598 overlooked.
3599
3600PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3601
d7174846
PH
3602PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3603 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3604 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3605 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3606 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3607 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3608 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3609
3610 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3611 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3612 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3613 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3614 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3615
3616 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3617 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3618 routed further.
3619
cfe75fc3
PH
3620PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3621 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3622 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3623 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3624 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3625 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3626
be22d70e
PH
3627PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3628
0612b098
PH
3629PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3630 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3631 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3632 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3633 printable escape sequences.
3634
2e0c1448
PH
3635PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3636 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3637 body only.
3638
447d236c
PH
3639PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3640 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3641 are as follows:
3642
3643 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3644 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3645 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3646 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3647 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3648
3649 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3650 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3651 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3652
d20976dc
PH
3653PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3654
f656d135
PH
3655PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3656 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3657 play with."
3658
2e2a30b4
PH
3659PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3660 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3661 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3662 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3663 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3664 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3665 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3666 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3667 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3668 the log output.
3669
9176e9f0
PH
3670PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3671 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3672 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3673 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3674 "make".
3675
7982096b 3676
bbe902f0
PH
3677A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3678----------------------------------------
3679
3680Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3681changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3682needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3683in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3684that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3685release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3686from 4.43.
3687
3688I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36894.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3690those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3691historical information.
3692
3693
f7b63901 3694Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3695-----------------
3696
5fe762f6
PH
3697 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3698
139059f6 3699 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3700 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3701
7086e875
PH
3702 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3703 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3704 place.
3705
35af9f61
PH
3706 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3707 filter fails to execute.
3708
b668c215
PH
3709 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3710 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3711 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3712 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3713 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3714
a494b1e1
PH
3715 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3716
3717 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3718 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3719 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3720 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3721
c5fcb476
PH
3722 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3723 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3724 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3725 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3726 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3727
69358f02
PH
3728 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3729
5be20824
PH
373010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3731
eb2c0248
PH
373211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3733 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3734 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3735 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3736
2a3eea10
PH
373712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3738 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3739 sender verification.
3740
374113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3742 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3743
23c7ff99
PH
374414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3745
4deaf07d
PH
374615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3747 connection timeout.
3748
926e1192
PH
374916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3750 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3751
650edc6f
PH
375217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3753 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3754
2c7db3f5
PH
375518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3756 information about exactly what failed.
3757
3d235903
PH
375819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3759
7c7ad977
PH
376020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3761 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3762 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3763
981756db
PH
376421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3765 It is now set to "smtps".
3766
d4eb88df
PH
376722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3768 ignore_target_hosts.
3769
377023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3771 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3772 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3773 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3774 "[x.x.x.x]".
3775
7d468ab8
PH
377624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3777 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3778 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3779
378025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3781 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3782 wake it up if nothing else does.
3783
62c0818f
PH
378426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3785 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3786 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3787 end up negative.
3788
26034054
PH
378927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3790 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3791
af66f652
PH
379228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3793
90af77f4
PH
379429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3795 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3796 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3797 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3798 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3799 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3800 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3801 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3802
d8ef3577
PH
380330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3804 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3805 than one IP address.
3806
5cb8cbc6
PH
380731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3808 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3809 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3810 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3811
14702f5b
PH
381232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3813 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3814 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3815 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3816 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3817 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3818
063b1e99
PH
381933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3820 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3821 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3822 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3823
652e1b65
PH
382434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3825 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3826 respected.
3827
6f0c9a4f
PH
382835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3829 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3830 $sender_host_address.
3831
33397d19
PH
383236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3833 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3834 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3835 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3836 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3837 very small.
3838
7bb56e1f
PH
383937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3840
3841 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3842 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3843
ea3bc19b
PH
3844 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3845 just the host names, not the priorities.
3846
3847 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3848 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3849 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3850
ea3bc19b 3851 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3852 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3853
0bcb2a0e
PH
385438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3855 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3856 domain.
3857
2ac0e484
PH
385839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3859
4e1fde53
PH
386040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3861 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3862
de365ded
PH
386341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3864 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3865 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3866
f05da2e8
PH
386742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3868
d6453af2
PH
386943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3870
f7b63901
PH
387144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3872
387345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3874 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3875 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3876 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3877 because the tests only now provoked it.
3878
a444213a
PH
387946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3880 (this can affect the format of dates).
3881
0ec020ea
PH
388247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3883 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3884 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3885 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3886
b1206957
PH
388748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3888
388949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3890 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3891 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3892 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3893
26dd5a95
PH
389450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3895 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3896 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3897
343b2385
PH
389851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3899 autoreply.
3900
1c5466b9
PH
390152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3902 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3903 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3904 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3905 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3906 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3907 is going on).
3908
55ee9ee3
PH
390953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3910 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3911 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3912 the line.
3913
d38f8232
PH
391454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3915 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3916 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3917
3918 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3919 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3920 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3921 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3922 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3923 so I produce this patch..."
3924
3295e65b
PH
3925 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3926 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3927 is not defined.
3928
7102e136
PH
392955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3930 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3931 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3932 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3933 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3934
3ca0ba97
PH
393556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3936
c2bcbe20
PH
393757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3938 long debug lines gets shown.
3939
18ce445d
PH
394058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3941 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3942
1f5b4c3d
PH
394359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3944
3945 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3946 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3947 of $primary_hostname.
3948
b975ba52
PH
394960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3950 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3951 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3952 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3953 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3954 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3955 by change 4.50/55 above.
3956
3957 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3958 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3959 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3960 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3961 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3962 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3963 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3964
396561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3966 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3967 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3968 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3969
17ffcae7
PH
397062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3971 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3972
d95f9fdb
PH
397363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3974 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3975 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3976 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3977 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3978
86b8287f
PH
397964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3980 This has been fixed.
3981
60dc5e56
PH
398265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3983 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3984 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3985 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3986 the caching.)
3987
533244af
PH
398866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3989
a5a28604
PH
399067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3991 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3992 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3993 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3994
7e634d24
PH
399568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3996 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3997
3e11c26b
PH
399869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3999 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4000 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4001
6729cf78
PH
400270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4003 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4004 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4005 message there.
4006
00f00ca5
PH
400771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4008 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4009 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4010
c9bdd01c
PH
401172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4012 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4013 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4014 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4015
d43194df
PH
401673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4017 during host lookups.
4018
fe5b5d0b
PH
401974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4020 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4021
4022 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4023
76a2d7ba
PH
402475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4025 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4026 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4027 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4028 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4029 background.
4030
403176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4032 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4033
04f7d5b9
PH
403477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4035 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4036 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4037
bc60667e
PH
403878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4039
bb6e88ff
PH
404079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4041 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4042 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4043 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4044 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4045 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4046 process earlier.
4047
1e70f85b
PH
404880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4049 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4050 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4051 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4052 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4053
405481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4055 tables).
4056
4e01f9d6
PH
405782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4058
1ee1cef2
PH
405983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4060 "vacation" handling.
4061
6e2b4ccc
PH
406284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4063 OS variants using glibc.
4064
8e669ac1
PH
406585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4066
495ae4b0 4067
bbe902f0
PH
4068----------------------------------------------------
4069See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4070----------------------------------------------------
4071
4072
4073Exim version 4.44
4074-----------------
4075
4076 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4077 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4078 transport
4079
4080 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4081 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4082 place.
4083
4084 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4085 filter fails to execute.
4086
4087 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4088 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4089 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4090 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4091 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4092
4093 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4094 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4095 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4096 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4097
4098 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4099 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4100 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4101 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4102 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4103
4104 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4105
4106 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4107 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4108 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4109 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4110
4111 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4112 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4113 sender verification.
4114
411510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4116 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4117
411811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4119 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4120
412112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4122 ignore_target_hosts.
4123
412413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4125 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4126 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4127 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4128 "[x.x.x.x]".
4129
413014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4131 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4132 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4133
413415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4135 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4136 wake it up if nothing else does.
4137
413816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4139 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4140 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4141 end up negative.
4142
414317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4144 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4145
ea3a6f44 414618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4147
414819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4149 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4150 empty pattern.
4151
415220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4153 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4154 one IP address.
4155
ea3a6f44
NM
415621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4157 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4158 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4159 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4160 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4161 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4162
ea3a6f44
NM
416322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4164 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4165 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4166
416723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4168 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4169 $sender_host_address.
4170
417124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4172
ea3a6f44
NM
417325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4174 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4175 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4176
417726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4178 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4179
ea3a6f44
NM
418027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4181 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4182
ea3a6f44
NM
418328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4184 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4185 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4186 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4187
418829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4189 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4190 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4191
ea3a6f44
NM
419230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4193 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4194 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4195 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4196
ea3a6f44
NM
419731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4198 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4199 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4200
ea3a6f44
NM
420131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4202 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4203
ea3a6f44
NM
420432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4205 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4206 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4207 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4208 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4209 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4210 is going on).
bbe902f0 4211
ea3a6f44
NM
421233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4213 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4214 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4215 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4216 CAN-2005-0021
4217
ea3a6f44
NM
421834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4219 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4220 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4221 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4222 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4223 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4224 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4225
4226 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4227 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4228 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4229 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4230 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4231 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4232 CAN-2005-0021
4233
ea3a6f44
NM
423435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4235 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4236 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4237 CAN-2005-0022
4238
ea3a6f44
NM
423936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4240 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4241 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4242 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4243 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4244
ea3a6f44
NM
424537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4246 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4247 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4248 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4249 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4250
ea3a6f44
NM
425138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4252 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4253 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4254 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4255 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4256
4257
495ae4b0
PH
4258Exim version 4.43
4259-----------------
4260
4261 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4262 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4263 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4264 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4265 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4266 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4267 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4268
4269 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4270 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4271 the delivery.
4272
4273 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4274
4275 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4276
4277 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4278 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4279 to local_scan().
4280
4281 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4282 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4283 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4284 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4285 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4286
4287 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4288 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4289
4290 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4291
4292 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4293
429410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4295 header_sender only.
4296
429711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4298 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4299
430012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4301 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4302 affecting debugging statements).
4303
430413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4305
430614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4307 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4308 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4309 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4310 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4311 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4312 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4313 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4314 after the received time, and all would be well.
4315
431615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4317 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4318 condition in an expansion string.
4319
432016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4321
432217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4323 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4324 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4325 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4326 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4327 job under whatever limits there are.
4328
432918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4330
433119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4332 space).
4333
433420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4335 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4336 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4337 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4338 return path is set.
4339
434021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4341 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4342 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4343 binary data in such strings.
4344
434522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4346
434723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4348 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4349 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4350 failure, which is pointless.
4351
435224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4353
435425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4355
435626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4357 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4358 Sender: header lines.
4359
436027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4361 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4362 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4363
436428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4365 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4366 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4367 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4368 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4369 happens.
4370
437129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4372 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4373 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4374 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4375 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4376
437730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4378 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4379 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4380 1024.
4381
438231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4383 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4384
438532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4386 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4387
438833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4389
439032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4391
439233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4393
439434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4395 syntax error.
4396
439735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4398
439936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4400
440137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4402 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4403 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4404 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4405
440638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4407 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4408
4409
4410Exim version 4.42
4411-----------------
4412
4413 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4414 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4415 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4416 it was not quoted.
4417 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4418 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4419 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4420 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4421 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4422 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4423
4424 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4425 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4426 verification failure".
4427
4428 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4429 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4430 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4431 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4432
4433 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4434 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4435 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4436 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4437 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4438 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4439 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4440 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4441 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4442 treated as a timeout.
4443
4444 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4445 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4446 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4447 not set for Exim filters).
4448
4449 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4450 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4451 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4452
4453 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4454
4455 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4456 try to make them clearer.
4457
4458 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4459 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4460
4461 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4462
4463 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4464
446510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4466 only the Cygwin environment.
4467
446811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4469 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4470 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4471 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4472 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4473
447412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4475 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4476 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4477 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4478 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4479 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4480 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4481
448213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4483 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4484
448514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4486
4487 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4488 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4489 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4490
4491 To: susanne@some.where
4492
4493 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4494 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4495 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4496 of addresses in From: header lines).
4497
4498 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4499 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4500 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4501
4502 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4503 treated as non-personal.
4504
4505 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4506 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4507
450815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4509
451016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4511
451217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4513 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4514 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4515
451618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4517 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4518
451919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4520 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4521 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4522 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4523 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4524 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4525
452620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4527 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4528 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4529 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4530 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4531 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4532 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4533 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4534
4535 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4536
453721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4538 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4539
454022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4541 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4542 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4543
454423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4545 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4546
454724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4548 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4549 rather than long int.
4550
455125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4552
455326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4554
4555
4556Exim version 4.41
4557-----------------
4558
4559 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4560 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4561 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4562 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4563 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4564 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4565
4566
4567Exim version 4.40
4568-----------------
4569
4570 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4571 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4572
4573 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4574 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4575 socklen_t is defined.
4576
4577 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4578 always exist.
4579
4580 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4581 configured.
4582
4583 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4584 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4585 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4586 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4587 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4588
4589 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4590 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4591 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4592 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4593
4594 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4595 of flapping under certain conditions.
4596
4597 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4598 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4599 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4600
4601 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4602
460310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4604
460511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4606 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4607 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4608 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4609
461012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4611 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4612 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4613 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4614 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4615 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4616 preserved with the message after it was received.
4617
461813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4619 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4620 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4621 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4622 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4623 test suite worked just fine.
4624
462514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4626 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4627 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4628
462915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4630 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4631 string.
4632
463316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4634 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4635 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4636 does not fully solve it.
4637
463817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4639 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4640 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4641 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4642 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4643
464418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4645 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4646 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4647
464819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4649 string, for example:
4650
4651 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4652
4653 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4654 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4655 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4656 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4657 the routers could not see them.
4658
465920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4660 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4661
466221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4663 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4664 output).
4665
466622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4667 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4668 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4669 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4670 that needed quoting.
4671
467223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4673 was not being matched caselessly.
4674
467524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4676 backslashes.
4677
467825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4679 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4680 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4681 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4682 when use_sender is false.
4683
468426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4685
468627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4687
468828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4689
469029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4691 the configuration file.
4692
469330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4694 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4695
469631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4697
469832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4699 bytes in the message body.
4700
470133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4702 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4703 delivery.
4704
470534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4706
470735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4708
470936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4710 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4711 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4712 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4713 another IP address.
4714
4715
4716Exim version 4.34
4717-----------------
4718
4719 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4720 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4721
4722 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4723 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4724 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4725 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4726 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4727
4728 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4729 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4730
4731 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4732 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4733 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4734
4735 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4736 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4737 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4738
4739 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4740 for routers.
4741
4742 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4743 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4744 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4745 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4746 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4747 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4748 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4749
4750
4751Exim version 4.33
4752-----------------
4753
4754 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4755 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4756 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4757 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4758 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4759 default (and expected) setting.
4760
4761 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4762 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4763 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4764 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4765
4766 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4767 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4768
4769 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4770 in domain lists.
4771
4772 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4773 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4774 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4775 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4776 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4777 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4778
4779 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4780 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4781 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4782
4783 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4784 part (NOT match_host).
4785
4786 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4787
4788 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4789 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4790 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4791 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4792 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4793 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4794 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4795 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4796 the same named file.
4797
479810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4799 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4800 when Exim is built.
4801
480211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4803 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4804 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4805 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4806 a host name.
4807
480812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4809 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4810 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4811
481213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4813
481414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4815
481615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4817
481816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4819 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4820
482117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4822 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4823 before starting the TLS session.
4824
482518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4826
482719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4828 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4829
483020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4831 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4832 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4833 colon in the middle).
4834
4835
4836Exim version 4.32
4837-----------------
4838
4839 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4840 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4841 multiple configurations are in use.
4842
4843 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4844 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4845 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4846 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4847 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4848 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4849
4850 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4851 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4852
4853 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4854 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4855 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4856
4857 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4858 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4859 occurs.
4860
4861 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4862 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4863
4864 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4865
4866 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4867 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4868
4869 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4870
4871 -prval:sval
4872
4873 is equivalent to
4874
4875 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4876
4877 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4878 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4879 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4880 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4881 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4882
488310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4884 Exim's behaviour:
4885
4886 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4887 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4888 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4889 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4890 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4891 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4892
4893 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4894 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4895 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4896 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4897 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4898 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4899 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4900 string.
4901
4902 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4903 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4904 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4905 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4906 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4907
490811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4909
491012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4911 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4912 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4913
491413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4915
491614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4917 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4918 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4919 information.
4920
492115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4922 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4923
492416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4925 Three changes have been made:
4926
4927 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4928 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4929 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4930 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4931 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4932
4933 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4934 been restored.
4935
4936 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4937 the modified behaviour.
4938
4939
4940Exim version 4.31
4941-----------------
4942
4943 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4944 Larry Rosenman.
4945
4946 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4947 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4948
4949 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4950 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4951 try to track down a specific problem.
4952
4953 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4954 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4955 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4956
4957 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4958 warning.
4959
4960 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4961 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4962 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4963 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4964 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4965 some earlier ones do not.
4966
4967 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4968
4969 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4970 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4971 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4972 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4973 address literals are enabled, of course).
4974
4975 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4976
497710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4978 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4979 by a command such as
4980
4981 exim -f "" ...
4982
4983 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4984
498511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4986
498712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4988 remained set. It is now erased.
4989
499013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4991 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4992
499314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4994 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4995 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4996 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4997 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4998 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4999 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5000 appropriate error code.
5001
500215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5003 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5004 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5005 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5006 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5007 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5008
500916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5010 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5011 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5012
501317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5014 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5015 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5016 terminate the header.
5017
501818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5019 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5020 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5021
502219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5023 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5024 (4.30/29). In particular:
5025
5026 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5027 imposed.
5028
5029 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5030 to write a maildirsize file.
5031
5032 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5033 the transport, the new value overrides.
5034
5035 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5036 count.
5037
503820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5039 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5040 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5041 space or a tab.
5042
504321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5044 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5045 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5046 the fallback hosts.
5047
504822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5049 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5050 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5051
505223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5053 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5054 using a union.
5055
505624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5057 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5058 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5059
506025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5061
506226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5063
506427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5065
506628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5067 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5068 become corrupted.
5069
507029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5071 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5072 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5073 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5074 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5075 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5076 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5077 too great.
5078
507930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5080 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5081 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5082 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5083 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5084 incorrectly.
5085
508631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5087 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5088 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5089 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5090 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5091 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5092 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5093 cached value only when the same options are set.
5094
509532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5096
509733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5098 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5099 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5100 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5101 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5102
510334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5104 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5105 it is clearly obsolete.
5106
510735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5108 transport.
5109
511036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5111 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5112 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5113 times.
5114
511537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5116 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5117 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5118 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5119 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5120
512138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5122 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5123 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5124 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5125
512639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5127
5128 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5129
5130 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5131 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5132 2^31.
5133
513440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5135 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5136 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5137 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5138 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5139 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5140 $localpart_data.
5141
514241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5143 with the -f command-line option.
5144
514542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5146 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5147 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5148 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5149 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5150 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5151
515243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5153 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5154 line.
5155
515644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5157 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5158 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5159 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5160 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5161 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5162 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5163 buffer is too small.
5164
516545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5166 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5167
516846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5169 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5170 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5171 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5172 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5173 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5174 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5175 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5176 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5177
517847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5179 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5180 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5181
518248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5183 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5184 ACL").
5185
518649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5187 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5188 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5189 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5190 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5191
519250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5193 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5194 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5195 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5196 is set.
5197
519851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5199
520052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5201
520253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5203 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5204
520554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5206 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5207 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5208
520955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5210 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5211 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5212 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5213 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5214
521556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5216 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5217 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5218 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5219 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5220 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5221 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5222
522357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5224 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5225 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5226 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5227 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5228 the test of how many are available.
5229
523058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5231 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5232 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5233 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5234 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5235 new message is started.
5236
523759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5238 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5239
524060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5241 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5242
524361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5244 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5245 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5246 is no long logged.
5247
524862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5249 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5250 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5251 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5252 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5253 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5254 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5255
525663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5257 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5258 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5259 interpreted as octal.
5260
526164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5262 setting.
5263
526465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5265 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5266 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5267 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5268 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5269 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5270
527166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5272 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5273 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5274 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5275
5276 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5277 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5278 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5279 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5280
5281 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5282 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5283 is a bug fix.
5284
5285 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5286 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5287
528867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5289
529068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5291 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5292 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5293 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5294
529569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5296 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5297 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5298 supplied", which is not helpful.
5299
530070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5301 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5302 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5303
530471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5305 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5306 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5307 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5308 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5309 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5310 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5311 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5312
531372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5314 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5315 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5316 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5317 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5318
531973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5320 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5321 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5322 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5323 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5324 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5325
532674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5327 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5328 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5329
533075. Added write_rejectlog option.
5331
533276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5333 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5334 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5335 variables.
5336
533777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5338
533978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5340 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5341 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5342 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5343 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5344 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5345 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5346 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5347
534879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5349 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5350 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5351 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5352 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5353
535480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5355 Haardt.
5356
535781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5358 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5359 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5360 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5361 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5362 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5363 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5364 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5365 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5366
5367
5368Exim version 4.30
5369-----------------
5370
5371 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5372 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5373 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5374
5375 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5376 fixed.
5377
5378 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5379 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5380 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5381
5382 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5383 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5384 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5385 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5386 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5387 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5388
5389 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5390 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5391 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5392 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5393 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5394 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5395 the Exim test suite.
5396
5397 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5398 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5399 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5400 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5401
5402 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5403 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5404 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5405 specify it in this variable.
5406
5407 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5408 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5409 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5410 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5411
5412 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5413 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5414 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5415 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5416
5417 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5418 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5419 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5420 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5421 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5422
5423 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5424
542510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5426 they are logged.
5427
542811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5429 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5430 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5431 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5432 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5433
543412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5435 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5436
543713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5438 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5439 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5440 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5441 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5442
544314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5444 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5445
544615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5447 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5448 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5449
545016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5451 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5452
545317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5454 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5455
545618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5457 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5458 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5459
546019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5461 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5462
546320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5464 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5465 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5466 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5467
546821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5469
547022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5471 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5472 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5473 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5474
547523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5476
547724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5478 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5479
548025. Added .include_if_exists.
5481
548226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5483 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5484 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5485 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5486 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5487 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5488
548927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5490
549128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5492 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5493 this.
5494
549529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5496
549730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5498 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5499
5500 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5501 550 Sender verify failed
5502
5503 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5504 the final line of the response.
5505
550631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5507 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5508 all other user lookups.
5509
551032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5511 delivery time.
5512
551333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5514 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5515 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5516 result into an int without checking.
5517
551834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5519 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5520 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5521
552235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5523 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5524 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5525 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5526
552736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5528 correctly.
5529
553037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5531 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5532
553338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5534 to the empty sender.
5535
553639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5537 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5538 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5539 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5540 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5541 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5542 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5543 panic log.
5544
554540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5546 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5547 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5548 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5549 used.
5550
555141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5552 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5553
555442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5555 timestamps.
5556
555743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5558 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5559
556044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5561
556245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5563 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5564 logs.
5565
556646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5567 as soon as it is encountered.
5568
556947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5570
557148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5572 rewritten to "<>".
5573
557449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5575 recognizes a tab character.
5576
557750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5578 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5579 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5580 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5581
558251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5583
558452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5585 crash.
5586
558753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5588
558954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5590
559155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5592 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5593 2822.
5594
559556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5596 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5597 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5598 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5599 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5600
560157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5602 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5603
560458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5605 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5606 list (.included file names were always shown).
5607
560859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5609 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5610 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5611 root at that time.
5612
561360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5614 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5615
561661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5617
561862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5619
562063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5621
562264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5623 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5624 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5625 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5626 failures to open the logs.
5627
562865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5629 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5630 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5631 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5632 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5633 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5634 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5635
5636
5637Exim version 4.24
5638-----------------
5639
5640 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5641 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5642 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5643 change 4.23/1.
5644
5645 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5646 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5647 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5648
5649 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5650 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5651 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5652
5653 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5654 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5655 causing some misleading effects.
5656
5657 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5658 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5659 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5660
5661 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5662 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5663 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5664 queue-runner function directly.
5665
5666
5667Exim version 4.23
5668-----------------
5669
5670 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5671 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5672
5673 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5674 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5675 was always written to the default place.
5676
5677 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5678 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5679 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5680
5681 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5682
5683 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5684
5685 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5686 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5687 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5688
5689 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5690 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5691 must start.
5692
5693 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5694 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5695 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5696
5697 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5698 command line option is disabled.
5699
5700 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5701 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5702
5703 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5704
5705 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5706
5707 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5708 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5709
571010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5711
571211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5713 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5714 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5715 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5716 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5717 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5718
571912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5720 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5721 timeout.
5722
572313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5724 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5725
572614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5727 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5728
572915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5730 received was valid base64.
5731
573216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5733 name of the variable that was being set.
5734
573517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5736
573718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5738 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5739 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5740 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5741 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5742 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5743
574419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5745
574620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5747 nor realm was specified.
5748
574921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5750 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5751 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5752 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5753
575422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5755 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5756 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5757
575823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5759 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5760 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5761
576224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5763 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5764 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5765 some systems use these upper case variants.
5766
576725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5768 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5769 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5770 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5771
577226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5773
577427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5775 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5776
577728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5778 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5779 expansion variable.
5780
578129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5782
578330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5784 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5785 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5786 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5787
578831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5789 using it.
5790
579132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5792 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5793 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5794
579533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5796 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5797
579834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5799 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5800 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5801 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5802
580335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5804 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5805 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5806
580736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5808
580937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5810 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5811 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5812 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5813 aborted.
5814
581538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5816 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5817 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5818
581939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5820
582140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5822 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5823
582441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5825 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5826
582742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5828 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5829 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5830 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5831 when emails are that large.
5832
5833
5834
5835Exim version 4.22
5836-----------------
5837
5838 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5839 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5840
5841 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5842 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5843 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5844
5845 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5846 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5847 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5848
5849 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5850 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5851 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5852 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5853 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5854
5855 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5856 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5857 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5858 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5859 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5860 ever.
5861
5862 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5863 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5864 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5865 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5866 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5867 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5868 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5869 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5870 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5871 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5872 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5873 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5874 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5875 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5876
5877 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5878 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5879 parameterised it.
5880
5881 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5882 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5883 error should be diagnosed.
5884
5885 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5886 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5887 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5888 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5889 appeared instead of "NULL".
5890
589110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5892 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5893 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5894 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5895 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5896 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5897 proceeds).
5898
5899 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5900 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5901 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5902
5903
5904Exim version 4.21
5905-----------------
5906
5907 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5908 or receiver verification errors.
5909
5910 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5911 name.
5912
5913 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5914 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5915 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5916 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5917
5918 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5919 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5920 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5921 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5922 shouldn't happen again.
5923
5924 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5925 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5926 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5927
5928 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5929 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5930
5931 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5932
5933 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5934 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5935
5936 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5937 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5938 RFC.
5939
594010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5941 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5942 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5943
594411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5945 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5946 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5947 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5948
594912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5950 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5951 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5952 to define what should happen).
5953
595413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5955 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5956 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5957
595814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5959
596015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5961
596216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5963 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5964
596517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5966 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5967 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5968 structure in all cases.
5969
5970 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5971 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5972 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5973 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5974
597518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5976 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5977 domain name.
5978
597919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5980 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5981
598220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5983 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5984
598521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5986 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5987 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5988
598922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5990 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5991 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5992
599323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5994 the book and for uniformity.
5995
599624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5997
599825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5999 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6000 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6001 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6002 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6003 non-existent command as the problem.
6004
600526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6006 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6007 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6008
600927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6010
601128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6012 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6013 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6014
601529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6016 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6017 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6018 timestamps using strftime().
6019
602030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6021 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6022
602332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6024 transport-time rewrites.
6025
602633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6027 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6028 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6029 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6030
603134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6032 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6033
603435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6035 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6036 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6037 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6038 comma and a space.
6039
604036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6041 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6042 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6043 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6044 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6045 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6046 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6047
604837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6049 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6050 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6051 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6052 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6053
605438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6055 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6056 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6057 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6058 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6059 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6060 remaining text gets split now.
6061
606239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6063 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6064 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6065 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6066
606740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6068 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6069 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6070 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6071 $return_path.
6072
607341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6074 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6075 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6076 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6077 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6078 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6079 passed through if needed.
6080
608142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6082 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6083 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6084 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6085 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6086 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6087
608843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6089 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6090 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6091 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6092 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6093
609444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6095 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6096 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6097 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6098 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6099
610045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6101 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6102 noticed.
6103
610446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6105 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6106 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6107 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6108 mayhem of various kinds.
6109
611047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6111 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6112 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6113 the right test for positive values.
6114
611548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6116 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6117 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6118 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6119 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6120 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6121 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6122 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6123 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6124 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6125 envelope.
6126
612749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6128 module.
6129
613050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6131 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6132 forbidding it.
6133
613451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6135 the existing equality matching.
6136
613752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6138 dealing with inode numbers.
6139
614053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6141 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6142 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6143
614454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6145 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6146 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6147 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6148 local_scan().
6149
615055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6151 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6152 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6153 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6154 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6155 relay addresses has also been removed.
6156
615756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6158
615957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6160 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6161 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6162
616358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6164 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6165 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6166 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6167 processing applies to CR:
6168
6169 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6170 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6171
6172 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6173 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6174 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6175 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6176
617759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6178 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6179 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6180
618160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6182 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6183 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6184 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6185 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6186 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6187 arisen.
6188
618961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6190 program routers.
6191
619262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6193 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6194 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6195 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6196 adds:
6197
6198 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6199
6200 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6201
6202 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6203
620463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6205 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6206 not considered personal.
6207
620864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6209
621065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6211
621266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6213
621467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6215 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6216 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6217 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6218 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6219 header lines, and spool format errors.
6220
622168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6222 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6223 for more flexibility.
6224
622569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6226 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6227 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6228
622970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6230 Sabourenkov.
6231
623271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6233 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6234 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6235 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6236 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6237 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6238 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6239 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6240 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6241
624272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6243 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6244 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6245 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6246 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6247 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6248 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6249
625073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6251 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6252 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6253
625474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6255 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6256 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6257 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6258 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6259 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6260 instead of killing the process with assert().
6261
626275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6263 than Unicode encoding.
6264
626576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6266 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6267 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6268 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6269
627077. Added process_log_path.
6271
627278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6273 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6274
627579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6276 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6277
627880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6279 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6280 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6281
628281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6283 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6284 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6285 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6286 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6287 were applied:
6288
6289 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6290 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6291 as invalid.
6292
629382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6294 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6295 they will be used during message reception.
6296
6297
6298Exim version 4.20
6299-----------------
6300
6301The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6302
6303****