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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9427e879 11JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 12 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 13
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14JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
15
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16PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
17 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
18
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19JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
20 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
23 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
24 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
25 before acknowledging the chunk.
26
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27PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
28 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
29 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
30
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31JH/05 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
32 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
33 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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35JH/06 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
36 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
37
38
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42JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
43 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 44
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45JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
46 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
47 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
48
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49JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
50 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
51 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
52 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
53 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
54 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
55 if one fails this test.
56 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
57 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
58
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59JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
60 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
61
23bb6982 62JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 63 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 64
0bd1b1ed 65JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 66 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 67
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68JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
69 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
70
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71JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
72 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
73
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74JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
75
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76JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
77 certificate).
78
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79JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
80 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
81 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
82 connection after a verify cache hit.
83 Do not update it with the verify result either.
84
85JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
86 when routing results in more than one destination address.
87
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88JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
89 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
90 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
91 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
92 when the cutthrough connection is made).
93
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94JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
95 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
96
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97JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
98 Previously they were not counted.
99
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100JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
101 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
102 that needed the lookup.
103
4c04137d 104JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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105 distinguished as "(=".
106
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107JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
108 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
109
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110JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
111
112JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
113 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 114
4c04137d 115JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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116 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
117
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118JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
119 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
120 compatible.
121
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122JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
123 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
124 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
125 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
126
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127JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
128
f59aaaaa 129JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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130 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
131 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 132
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133JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
134 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
135 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
136 be lost.
137
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138JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
139 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
140 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
141 itself :(
142
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143JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
144 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
145 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
146
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147JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
148 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
149 options.
150
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151JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
152
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153PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
154 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
155
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156PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
157 are not in the system include path.
158
ad7fc6eb 159JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 160 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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161 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
162 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 163
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164JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
165 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
166 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
167
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168JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
169
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170HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
171 an incoming connection.
172
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173HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
174 to rspamd.
175
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176HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
177 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 178
87cb4a16 179JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 180 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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182
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186JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
187 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
188 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
189 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 190
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191TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
192 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
193
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194TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
195 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
196 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
197 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
198 outgoing I= field.
199
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200JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
201 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
202 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
203 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
204 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
205 check on the next write.
206
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207HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
208 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
209 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
210 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
211 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
212
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213JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
214 mime_regex ACL conditions.
215
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216JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
217 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
218 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
219
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220JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
221 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
222 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
223 an authenticate fail is not an error.
224
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225HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
226 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
227
4c04137d 228JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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229 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
230
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231JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
232 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
233 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
234 distinct.
235
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236JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
237
238JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
239
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240JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
241
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242JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
243 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
244
98b98887 245JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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246 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
247
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248JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
249
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250JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
251 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
252
253JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
254
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255JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
256 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
257
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258JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
259
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260JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
261 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 262 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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263 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
264 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
265 they will retry in-clear.
266 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
267 at installation time.
268
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269HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
270 with the $config_file variable.
271
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272JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
273 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
274 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
275 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 276 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 277
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278GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
279 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
280 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
281 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
282 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
283
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284JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
285
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286JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
287 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
288 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
289 list order is no longer honoured.
290
4c04137d 291JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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292 for DKIM processing.
293
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294JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
295 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 296
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297JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
298 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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299 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
300 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 301
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302JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
303 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
304
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305JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
306 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
307
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308JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
309 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
310
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311JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
312
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313JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
314 cached by the daemon.
315
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316JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
317 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
318
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319JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
320 keys are given for lookup.
321
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322JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
323 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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324 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
325 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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327JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
328 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
329 server-side so match that on older versions.
330
07c73177 331JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 332 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 333 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 334
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335JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
336 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
337
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338JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
339 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
340 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 341 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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342 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
343 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
344 initial truncated version.
345
ab9152ff 346JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 347
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348JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
349
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350JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
351 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
352
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353JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
354
bc3c7bb7 355HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 356
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357JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
358 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
359 induced overflows.
360
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361JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
362 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
363 stage.
364
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365JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
366 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
367
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368JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
369 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
370 former class.
371
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372JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
373 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
374 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
375
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376JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
377 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
378 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
379 extraction. Accept either.
380
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385JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
386 expanded.
387
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388JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
389
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390JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
391 it.
392
01a4a5c5 393JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 394 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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395 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
396 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
397
cb1d7830 398JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 399 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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400 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
401
610ff438 402JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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403 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
404 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
405 TLS connections
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407JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
408 sites use this now.
409
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410JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
411 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
412 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
413 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
414 have a dsn_lasthop option.
415
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416JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
417 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 418 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 419
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420JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
421
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422JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
423 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
424
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425JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
426 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
427
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428JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
429 /defer_ok option.
430
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431JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
432 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
433
fd4d8871 434JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 435 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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436 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
437
438JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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439 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
440 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 441
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442JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
443 timeout value per server.
444
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445JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
446 now have the list separator specified.
447
8a512ed5 448JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 449 option values.
8a512ed5 450
82c0c8ea 451JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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452 under OpenSSL.
453
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454JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
455
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456JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
457 rather than the verbs used.
458
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459JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
460 from 255 to 1024 chars.
461
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462JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
463
cfab9d68 464HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 465 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 466
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467JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
468 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
469
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470HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
471 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
472
4c04137d 473JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 474
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475JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
476
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477JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
478 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 479 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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480 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
481
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482JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
483
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484JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
485 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
486
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487JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
488 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
489
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490JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
491
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492JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
493
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494JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
495
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496JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
497 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
498
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499JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
500 added for tls authenticator.
501
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502HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
503
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508TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
509 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
510 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
511 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
512 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
513 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
514 the script parsing/test process like normal.
515
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516TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
517 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
518 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
519 function when detected.
520
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521JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
522 cause callback expansion.
523
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524TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
525 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
526 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
527 instead of bool when processing it.
528
0f06b4f2 529JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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530 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
531
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532JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
533
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534JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
535
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536TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
537
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538TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
539 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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541JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
542 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
543 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
544 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 545 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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546 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
547
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548JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
549 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
550 exceeded it.
551
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552JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
553 version 3.3.6 or later.
554
4c04137d 555JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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556 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
557 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 558 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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559 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
560 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
561 option is defined.
774ef2d7 562
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563TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
564 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
565
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566JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
567 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
568 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
569 matches.
570
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571JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
572 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
573 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
574
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575JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
576 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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577
578JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
579 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
580 syntax errors.
581
3394b36a 582JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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583
584JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
585 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
586
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587TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
588 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
589 tarball.
590
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591JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
592
4c04137d 593JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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594 Bug 1561.
595
596JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
597 output list separator was used.
598
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602TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
603 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
604 return.
1f0ebb98 605
a612424f 606JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 607 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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608
609JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
610
611TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 612 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 613
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617
618TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
619
620 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
621 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
622 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
623 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
624 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
625 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
626
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627TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
628 utilities have not been installed.
629
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630JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
631 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
632
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633TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
634 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
635
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636TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
637 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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638 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
639 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 640
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641JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
642
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643TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
644 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
645
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646PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
647 not dns_use_dnssec.
648
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649JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
650
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651TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
652 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
653 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
654
8ddef691 655TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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656 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
657 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
658 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
659 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 660 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 661
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662JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
663
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664JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
665 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
666
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667JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
668 failed delivery.
669
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670JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
671
511a6c14 672JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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673
674JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
675 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 676
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677JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
678 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
679
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680TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
681
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682JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
683
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684JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
685 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
686
687 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
688 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
689 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
690
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691TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
692 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
693 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
694 analysis.
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696JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
697
8c51eead 698JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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699 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
700 lookup).
8c51eead 701
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702TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
703 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
704 Schlichting.
35aba663 705
fd3b6a4a 706JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 707 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 708
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709TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
710 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
711
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712JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
713
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714TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
715 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
716 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
717
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718JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
719 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
720
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721JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
722 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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723 hosts_request_ocsp.
724
ed3bba5f 725JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 726 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 727 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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729JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
730
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731TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
732 Christian Aistleitner.
733
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734JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
735
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736TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
737 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
738
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739JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
740 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
741
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742JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
743 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
744
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745TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
746 support and error reporting did not work properly.
747
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748TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
749 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
750
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751TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
752 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
753 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
754
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755JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
756
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757PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
758 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
759 Jasper Wallace.
760
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761JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
762
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763TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
764 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
765 CVE-2014-2972
766
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771PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
772
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773PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
774 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
775
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776PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
777 by GnuTLS.
778
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779PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
780 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
781 routines.
782
13363eba 783PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 784
66645890 785PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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786 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
787 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
788 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
789 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 790
a3fb9793 791PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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792 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
793 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
794 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 795 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 796 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 797
d27f98fe 798TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 799
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800TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
801
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802TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
803 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
804
ae0e32ee 805TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 806 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 807 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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809TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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811TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
812
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813TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
814 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
815
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816JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
817
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818JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
819
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820PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
821
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822NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
823 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 824
585121e2 825JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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827PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
828 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
829 function.
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831PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
832 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
833
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834JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
835 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
836 "acl = name arg..."
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838JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
839
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840JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
841
ea722490 842JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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843 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
844
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845JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
846 Bugzilla 884.
847
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848JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
849 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
850
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851JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
852 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
853
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854PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
855 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 856 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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858JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
859 authenticators.
860
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861JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
862 for control.
863
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864PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
865
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866PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
867 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
868 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
869 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
870
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871TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
872
873 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
874 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
875 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
876 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
877 the retry rules.
878
879 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
880 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
881 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
882
883 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
884 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
885 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
886 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
887
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888 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
889 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
890 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
891 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
892 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
893 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
894 delivery, as in LMTP.
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896 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
897 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
898
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899TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
900
901 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
902
903 Resent-From: f
904
905 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
906 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
907 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
908 username as equal to the username.
909
910 This change corrects that bug.
911
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912GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
913 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
914 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
915
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916TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
917
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918PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
919 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
920 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
921 NULL dereference and crash.
922
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923JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
924
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925PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
926 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
927 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
928
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929SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
930
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931JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
932 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
933 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
934 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
935 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
936 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
937 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 938 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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940 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
941 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
942
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943PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
944 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
945
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946PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
947 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
948 Bugzilla 880.
949
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950PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
951 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
952 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
953 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
954 an empty string is now equivalent.
955
0fbd9bff
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956PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
957 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
958 not performing validation itself.
959
700d22f3
PP
960PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
961 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
962
fcc8e047
JH
963JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
964 Bugzilla 321, 823.
965
4c04137d 966TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 967
8c020188
PP
968PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
969 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
970 other false fix of the same issue.
971 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
972 Bugzilla 1363.
973
d13cdd30
PP
974PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
975 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
976
e2fbf4a2
PP
977PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
978 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
979 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
980
f4c1088b
PP
981PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
982 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
983 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
984
c5c2182f
PP
985TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
986
73431ca9
JH
987JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
988
2d07a215
TL
989TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
990 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
991
a30a8861
TL
992TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
993 Alexander Miroch.
994
33382dd9
TL
995TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
996 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
997 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
998 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
999 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1000
046172e6
TL
1001TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1002 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1003
581d7bee 1004TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1005 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1006 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1007
1008TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1009 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1010 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1011 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1012
237b2cf2
TL
1013TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1014
9fc5a352
TL
1015TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1016 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1017 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1018
b10e4ec2
TL
1019TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1020
e2cebd74
TL
1021TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1022 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1023 interaction.
1024
1025TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1026 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1027
2519e60d
TL
1028TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1029 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1030
e78e6ecf 1031
4263f395
PP
1032Exim version 4.80.1
1033-------------------
1034
1035PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1036 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1037 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1038
ea722490 1039
b1770b6e 1040Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1041-----------------
1042
1043PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1044 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1045 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1046
23c7e742
NM
1047NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1048
b322aac8
NM
1049NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1050 improved.
1051
4a891427
NM
1052NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1053
c1e794ba 1054PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1055
97753960
PP
1056PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1057
1058PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1059 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1060
df6303fa
PP
1061PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1062 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1063
7e6a8985
PP
1064PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1065 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1066
f1e05cc7 1067PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1068 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1069 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1070
4c287009
PP
1071PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1072
b98bb9ac
PP
1073PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1074 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1075
4a6a987a
PP
1076PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1077
c45dd180 1078PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1079
7db8d074
PP
1080PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1081 non-compliant senders.
1082 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1083
eae0036b 1084NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1085 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1086 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1087
dec5017e
PP
1088PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1089 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1090 in spool file corruption.
1091
c80c5570
PP
1092PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1093 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1094 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1095 "Got SSL error 2".
1096
076b11e2
PP
1097TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1098 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1099 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1100
5407bfff
JH
1101JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1102 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1103
9e45c72b
PP
1104JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1105
e74376d8
PP
1106PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1107 diagnostics.
1108 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1109
4c04137d 1110PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1111 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1112 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1113
7be682ca
PP
1114PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1115 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1116 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1117 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1118
ef840681
PP
1119PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1120 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1121
5bfb4cdf
PP
1122PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1123 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1124 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1125 resolver implementation change.
1126
c6e95d22
PP
1127PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1128 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1129
9cbad13b
PP
1130PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1131
9ee44efb
PP
1132PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1133
6a6084f8
PP
1134PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1135 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1136
12dd53c7
PP
1137PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1138 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1139
9e45c72b 1140JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1141 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1142
17c76198
PP
1143PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1144 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1145 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1146 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1147 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1148
53947857 1149PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1150
eae0036b 1151PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1152 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1153 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1154
9e45c72b 1155JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1156
7390e768
PP
1157PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1158 read-only, out of scope).
1159 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1160
08488c86
PP
1161PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1162 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1163 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1164 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1165
6475bd82
PP
1166PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1167
81f91683
PP
1168PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1169 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1170 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1171 real issues in debug logging.
1172
5779e6aa
PP
1173PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1174 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1175
3375e053
PP
1176PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1177 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1178 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1179
1180PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1181 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1182 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1183 problems.
3375e053 1184
9d26b8c0
PP
1185PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1186 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1187
57eb9e91 1188PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1189 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1190 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1191 needs to override this, it can.
1192
16880d1a
PP
1193PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1194 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1195 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1196
a799883d
PP
1197PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1198 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1199 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1200 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1201
3ecab157 1202PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1203
0599f9cf 1204
867fcbf5
PP
1205Exim version 4.77
1206-----------------
1207
1208PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1209 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1210
f1a29782
TF
1211TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1212
ab42bd23
TK
1213TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1214 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1215
0ca0cf52
TF
1216TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1217 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1218
921b12ca
TF
1219TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1220 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1221 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1222
1223 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1224 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1225 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1226 not safe for signals.
1227
1228 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1229 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1230 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1231 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1232 exiwhat.
1233
c99ce5c9
TF
1234TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1235
1236 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1237 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1238 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1239 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1240 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1241
1242 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1243 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1244 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1245 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1246 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1247 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1248
1249 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1250 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1251 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1252 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1253
1254 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1255 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1256 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1257 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1258
1259 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1260 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1261 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1262 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1263 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1264 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1265 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1266 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1267 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1268
1269 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1270 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1271 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1272 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1273
1274 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1275 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1276 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1277 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1278 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1279 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1280 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1281 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1282 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1283 details in the main documentation.
1284
3634fc25
TF
1285TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1286
792e8a19
TF
1287TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1288
5901f0ab
TF
1289TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1290 repository when doing development or release builds.
1291
7f2a2a43
PP
1292PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1293 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1294
061b7ebd
PP
1295PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1296 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1297 Bugzilla 97.
1298
e12f8c32
PP
1299PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1300
9e949f00 1301PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1302 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1303
1304PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1305 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1306
555ae6af 1307PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1308 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1309
1310PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1311 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1312
6f7fe114
PP
1313PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1314 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1315
c566dd90
PP
1316PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1317 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1318 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1319 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1320
d6cc7c78 1321PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1322 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1323 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1324
0d0e4455
PP
1325PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1326
3399bb60 1327PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1328
1329PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1330 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1331
0ca0cf52 1332
10906672
PP
1333Exim version 4.76
1334-----------------
1335
1336PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1337
754a0503
PP
1338PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1339 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1340
c0c7b2da
PP
1341PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1342
e97d1f08
PP
1343PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1344
084c1d8c
PP
1345PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1346 Bugzilla 1098.
1347
4e7ee012
PP
1348PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1349 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1350
c8d52a00
PP
1351TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1352 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1353
54e7ce4a
PP
1354PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1355 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1356
5ee6f336
PP
1357PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1358 Bugzilla 1104.
1359
c8d52a00 1360TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1361 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1362
1363TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1364 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1365 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1366 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1367
1368PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1369 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1370
10906672 1371
aa097c4c
NM
1372Exim version 4.75
1373-----------------
1374
4c04137d 1375NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1376 Bugzilla 1073
1377
7f3d9eff
TF
1378TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1379 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1380 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1381
159f52d2
TF
1382TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1383 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1384
0cc9542a
PP
1385PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1386 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1387 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1388
f7274286
PP
1389PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1390 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1391
7b797365
PP
1392PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1393 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1394
caacae52
NM
1395NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1396 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1397
09dcaba9
NM
1398NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1399 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1400
bc19a55b
PP
1401PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1402 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1403
bd4c9759
NM
1404NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1405 Fixes bug 943.
1406
b72aab72
PP
1407PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1408 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1409
2fe76745
PP
1410PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1411 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1412
76aa570c
PP
1413PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1414 SQL string expansion failure details.
1415 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1416
f1e5fef5
PP
1417PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1418 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1419
4d805ee9
PP
1420PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1421 extern declarations in function scope.
1422 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1423
cd59ab18
PP
1424PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1425 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1426 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1427 a kernel bug).
1428
332f5cf3
PP
1429PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1430 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1431
29cfeb94
PP
1432PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1433 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1434
660242ad
PP
1435PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1436 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1437
bc4bc4c5
PP
1438PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1439 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1440
2e64baa9
NM
1441NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1442 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1443 Dennis Davis.
1444
4c04137d 1445PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1446
6bac1a9a
PP
1447PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1448
552193f0
NM
1449NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1450 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1451
1b587e48
TF
1452TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1453 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1454
aa097c4c 1455
8c07b69f
TF
1456Exim version 4.74
1457-----------------
1458
1459TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1460 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1461
c0ea85ab
TF
1462TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1463 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1464
0761d44e
TF
1465TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1466
0a349494
PP
1467DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1468 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1469 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1470
1471PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1472 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1473 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1474
fea24b2e
PP
1475PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1476 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1477 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1478 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1479
6545de78
PP
1480PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1481 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1482 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1483 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1484
1670ef10
PP
1485PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1486 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1487 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1488 arbitrary files.
1489
c0886197
PP
1490PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1491 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1492
b7487bce
PP
1493PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1494 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1495 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1496 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1497 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1498
8c07b69f 1499
97fd1e48 1500Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1501-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1502
1503PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1504 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1505 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1506
6901c596
PP
1507PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1508 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1509
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1510JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1511
77bb000f
PP
1512PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1513
a29e5231
PP
1514PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1515
ec5a0394 1516PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1517
55c75993
PP
1518PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1519
453a6645 1520PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1521 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1522 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1523 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1524
8544e77a
PP
1525PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1526 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1527 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1528 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1529 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1530
83e029d5
PP
1531PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1532
ed7f7860
PP
1533PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1534
7d9f747b
PP
1535PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1536
4b2241d2
PP
1537PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1538
10385c15
PP
1539PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1540
dbc4b90d
PP
1541PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1542
532be449
PP
1543PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1544
6a8de854 1545PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1546 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1547 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1548
5dc43717
JJ
1549JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1550
1551JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1552 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1553
3346ab01
PP
1554PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1555 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1556
491fab4c
PP
1557PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1558 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1559 Notification from John Horne.
1560
13eb9497
PP
1561PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1562 compatible.
1563
1564PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1565 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1566 it normally works.
1567
7f36d675
DW
1568DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1569 access.
1570
c1d94452
DW
1571DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1572 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1573 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1574
e2f5dc15
DW
1575DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1576 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1577 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1578 configuration file.
1579
cd25e41d
DW
1580DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1581 option (effectively making it always true).
1582
261dc43e
DW
1583DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1584 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1585
fa32850b
DW
1586DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1587 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1588
79d4bc3d
PP
1589PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1590 run-time user, instead of root.
1591
43236f35 1592PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1593 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1594
fb08281f
DW
1595DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1596 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1597 arguments.
3346ab01 1598
74935b98
DW
1599DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1600 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1601 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1602
90b6341f
DW
1603DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1604
57730b52
ML
1605NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1606
66581d1e 1607
465e92cf
JJ
1608Exim version 4.72
1609-----------------
1610
453a6645
PP
1611JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1612 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1613 typos
465e92cf 1614
453a6645
PP
1615JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1616 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1617 (Finput)
edae0343 1618
9bd3e22c
NM
1619NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1620 Patch from Alain Williams
1621
bb576ff7
NM
1622NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1623
5a1a5845
NM
1624NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1625 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1626
981a9fad
NM
1627NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1628 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1629
7fc497ee
NM
1630NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1631
1a41defa
JJ
1632JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1633
a466095c 1634NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1635 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1636
94a6bd0b
NM
1637TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1638
1639TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1640
1641MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1642 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1643 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1644
c1b141a8
NM
1645NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1646 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1647
b26eacf1 1648NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1649 Patch by Simon Arlott
1650
179c5980 1651PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1652 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1653
9bd3e22c 1654
7c6d71af
NM
1655Exim version 4.71
1656-----------------
1657
7d9f747b 1658TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1659
f013fb92
NM
1660NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1661
0eb8eedd
NM
1662NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1663
663ee6d9
NM
1664NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1665
177ebd9b
NM
1666NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1667
7c6d71af 1668
210f147e
NM
1669Exim version 4.70
1670-----------------
1671
cdd3bb85 1672TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1673 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1674
1675TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1676 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1677 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1678
1679TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1680 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1681 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1682
1683TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1684 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1685
210f147e
NM
1686NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1687 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1688 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1689 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1690
deafd5b3
NM
1691NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1692 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1693 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1694
089793a4
TF
1695TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1696
5f16ca82
TF
1697TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1698
dae9d94e 1699NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1700 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1701
7d9f747b 1702NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1703
06864c44
TF
1704TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1705 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1706 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1707 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1708
65a7d8c3 1709NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1710 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1711
23510047 1712TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1713
7d9f747b 1714NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1715
7d8eec3a 1716NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1717 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1718
89dec7b6
TF
1719TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1720 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1721
a99de90c
TF
1722TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1723 that they are available at delivery time.
1724
e2803e40
TF
1725TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1726
7199e1ee
TF
1727TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1728 incoming_port log selectors.
1729
e276e04b
TF
1730TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1731 setting expands to an empty string.
1732
ce552449 1733NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1734 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1735
e765a0f1 1736NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1737 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1738
4f054c63 1739NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1740 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1741
7d9f747b
PP
1742NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1743 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1744
7d9f747b
PP
1745NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1746 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1747
b52bc06e 1748NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1749 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1750
447de4b0
NM
1751NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1752
4c69d561 1753NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1754 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1755
d5c39246 1756NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1757 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1758
0b23848a
TK
1759TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1760
8f3414a1 1761NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1762 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1763
fb6f955d
NM
1764NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1765
1766NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1767
7d9f747b
PP
1768NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1769 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1770
7d9f747b
PP
1771NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1772 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1773
7d9f747b
PP
1774NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1775 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1776
7d9f747b
PP
1777NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1778 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1779
7d9f747b
PP
1780NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1781 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1782
7d9f747b
PP
1783NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1784 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1785
7d9f747b
PP
1786NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1787 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1788
7d9f747b 1789NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1790 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1791
7d9f747b 1792NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1793
7d9f747b
PP
1794NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1795 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1796
7d9f747b 1797NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1798
7d9f747b 1799NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1800
7d9f747b 1801NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1802
7d9f747b 1803NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1804
17792b53 1805NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1806 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1807
7d9f747b
PP
1808NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1809 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1810
91576cec 1811NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1812 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1813
7d9f747b
PP
1814NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1815 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1816
7d9f747b 1817NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1818
7d9f747b 1819NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1820
7d9f747b 1821NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1822
7d9f747b 1823NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1824
deafd5b3 1825
47db1125
NM
1826Exim version 4.69
1827-----------------
1828
4b3504d0
TK
1829TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1830 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1831 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1832
1833 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1834 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1835 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1836 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1837 build errors in sieve.c.
1838
81ea09ca
NM
1839NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1840 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1841 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1842
f13cddcb
SC
1843SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1844
7d9f747b 1845NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1846
7d9f747b 1847NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1848
7d9f747b 1849NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1850
1851
eb4c0de6
PH
1852Exim version 4.68
1853-----------------
1854
1855PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1856
6a3bceb1
PH
1857PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1858 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1859 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1860 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1861 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1862 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1863 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1864 for iplsearch lookups.
1865
1866 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1867 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1868 previously such lookups could never work.
1869
4c04137d 1870 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
1871 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1872 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1873
2e30fa9d
TK
1874TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1875 version.
1876
0806a9c5
MH
1877MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1878 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1879 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1880 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1881 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1882 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1883
ae276964
TK
1884TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1885 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1886
0f2cbd1b
MH
1887MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1888 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1889 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1890 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1891 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1892 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1893
2b85bce7
PH
1894PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1895 local_scan API.
1896
93655c46
PH
1897PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1898
6c512171
PH
1899PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1900 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1901 encrypted.
1902
1903PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1904 by clients under certain conditions.
1905
aa6dc513
PH
1906PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1907 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1908
a96603a0
PH
1909PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1910
8f240103
PH
1911PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1912 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1913
1914PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1915
d677b2f2
PH
1916PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1917
d52120f2
PH
1918PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1919
64f2600a
PH
1920PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1921 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1922
8669f003
PH
1923PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1924
a4dc33a8
PH
1925PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1926 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1927
d6a60c0f
PH
1928PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1929
8f128379
PH
1930PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1931
8932dffe
PH
1932PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1933 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1934 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1935 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1936
ddea74fa 1937PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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PH
1938 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1939 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1940
ddea74fa 1941PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1942 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1943
ddea74fa
PH
1944PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1945
ce9f225c
PH
1946PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1947
19897d52
PH
1948PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1949
bc64a74d
PH
1950PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1951 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1952 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1953
eb4c0de6 1954
b4ed4da0
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1955Exim version 4.67
1956-----------------
1957
22ad45c9
MH
1958MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1959 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1960 Jan Srzednicki.
1961
b4ed4da0
PH
1962PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1963 issue a MAIL command.
1964
431b7361
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1965PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1966
1967 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1968
1969 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1970 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1971 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1972 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1973 item. This has been fixed.
1974
1975PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1976 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1977
83da1223
PH
1978PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1979 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1980
54fc8428
PH
1981PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1982 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1983 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1984
34c5e8dd
SC
1985SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1986
bbe15da8
PH
1987PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1988 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1989 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1990 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1991 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1992
0e8a9471
MH
1993MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1994 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1995 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1996
f0872424
PH
1997PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1998 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1999 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2000 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2001
b01dd148
PH
2002PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2003
6bf342e1
PH
2004PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2005
273f34d0
PH
2006PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2007 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2008 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2009 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2010 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2011
cf8b11a5
PH
2012PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2013
41c7c167
PH
2014PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2015 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2016 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2017 values).
2018
9c57cbc0
PH
2019PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2020
f3f065bb
PH
2021PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2022
047bdd8c
PH
2023PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2024
0ce9abe6
PH
2025PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2026
0e22dfd1
PH
2027PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2028
4c590bd1
PH
2029PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2030 no_callout_flush is set.
2031
09945f1e
PH
2032PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2033 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2034 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2035 fixed.
2036
c51b8e75
PH
2037PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2038
e28326d8 2039PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2040 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2041 other ACL rejections are.
2042
75b1493f
PH
2043PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2044 with slight modification.
2045
7c5214ec
PH
2046PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2047 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2048
4311097e
PH
2049PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2050 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2051 connection.
2052
29f89cad
PH
2053PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2054 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2055
5e687460
SC
2056SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2057
c3611384
PH
2058PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2059 expansion side effects.
2060
5a11a7b4
PH
2061PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2062 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2063 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2064 be the same.
2065
0e20aff9
MH
2066MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2067 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2068 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2069
ca86f471
PH
2070PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2071 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2072 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2073 were accidentally chopped off.
2074
a14e5636
PH
2075PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2076 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2077 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2078 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2079 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2080 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2081 pipelining has not been advertised.
2082
ec95d1a6
PH
2083PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2084
42855d71
PH
2085PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2086 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2087 This has been fixed.
2088
57c2c631
PH
2089PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2090 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2091 reported on Solaris.
2092
58c01c94
PH
2093PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2094 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2095 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2096 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2097 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2098 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2099 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2100
dee5a20a
PH
2101PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2102 cpus.
2103
d2ee6114
PH
2104PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2105
b2d5182b
PH
2106PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2107
79749a79
PH
2108PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2109 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2110 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2111 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2112 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2113 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2114
c456d9bb
PH
2115PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2116 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2117 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2118 host_all_ignored option.
2119
cd9868ec
PH
2120PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2121 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2122 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2123 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2124 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2125 is what is supposed to happen).
2126
ebeaf996
PH
2127PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2128 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2129 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2130 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2131 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2132 uses the Exim user.
2133
2679d413
PH
2134PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2135 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2136 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2137 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2138 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2139 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2140 users.
2141
84024b72
PH
2142PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2143
8005d38e
SC
2144SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2145 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2146 (Jez Hancock).
2147 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2148 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2149
3298c6c6
SC
2150SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2151
a43a27c5
PH
2152PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2153
58eb016e 2154PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2155 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2156 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2157 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2158 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2159 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2160 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2161 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2162 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2163 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2164 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2165
b43a74ea
PH
2166PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2167 advertised in response to EHLO.
2168
b4ed4da0 2169
5dd1517f
PH
2170Exim version 4.66
2171-----------------
2172
2173PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2174 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2175
2176 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2177 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2178
2179 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2180 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2181 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2182
2183 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2184 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2185 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2186 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2187 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2188
2189
93cfa765
TK
2190Exim version 4.65
2191-----------------
2192
2193TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2194 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2195 versions. (#438)
2196
d6066548
MH
2197MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2198 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2199 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2200
4362ff0d
PH
2201PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2202 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2203 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2204 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2205 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2206 rather than extend the field.
2207
93cfa765 2208
944e9e9c
TF
2209Exim version 4.64
2210-----------------
aa41d2de 2211
21d74bd9
TK
2212TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2213 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2214 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2215 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2216 these files.
2217
2218TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2219 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2220 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2221
2222TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2223 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2224 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2225
2226TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2227 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2228 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2229 in the field name.
2230
2b1c6e3a
PH
2231PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2232 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2233 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2234 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2235 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2236 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2237 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2238 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2239 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2240 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2241 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2242
1f872c80
PH
2243PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2244 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2245
2246PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2247 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2248 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2249 ignores EPIPE as well.
2250
d203e649
PH
2251PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2252 (quoted-printable decoding).
2253
cc2ed8f7 2254PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2255 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2256
ddfcd446
PH
2257PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2258
d45b1de8
PH
2259PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2260
2261PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2262
38a0a95f 2263PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2264 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2265
a2405d83
JJ
2266JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2267 in 4.64-PH/09.
2268
2269JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2270 miscellaneous code fixes
2271
6ea85e9a
PH
2272PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2273 rejections.
2274
26da7e20
PH
2275PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2276 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2277 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2278 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2279 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2280 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2281 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2282 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2283
14aa5a05 2284PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2285 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2286 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2287 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2288 function.
2289 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2290 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2291 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2292 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2293 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2294 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2295 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2296 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2297 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2298
ff75a1f7
PH
2299PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2300 decoding.
2301
e6f6568e
PH
2302PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2303 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2304 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2305 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2306 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2307 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2308 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2309 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2310
d6f6e0dc
PH
2311PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2312 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2313 list.
2314
322050c2
PH
2315PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2316 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2317 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2318 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2319 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2320 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2321 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2322 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2323 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2324 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2325 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2326 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2327 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2328
08955dd3
PH
2329PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2330 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2331 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2332 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2333 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2334 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2335 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2336
1eccaa59
PH
2337PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2338 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2339 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2340 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2341 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2342 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2343 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2344 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2345 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2346 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2347
602e59e5
PH
2348PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2349 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2350 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2351 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2352 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2353
411ef850
PH
2354PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2355 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2356 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2357 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2358 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2359 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2360 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2361
7befa435
PH
2362PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2363 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2364 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2365 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2366 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2367 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2368 been verified.
2369
48da4259 2370PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2371 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2372 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2373 and authorization.)
2374
48da4259
PH
2375PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2376 if any retry times were supplied.
2377
d1d5595c
PH
2378PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2379 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2380 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2381
0ef732d9
PH
2382PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2383
328895cc
PH
2384PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2385
fd700877
PH
2386PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2387 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2388 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2389 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2390 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2391 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2392
8dce1a6f
PH
2393PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2394 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2395
17af4a17
PH
2396PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2397 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2398 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2399
2400PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2401 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2402 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2403 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2404 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2405 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2406 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2407 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2408 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2409
2410 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2411 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2412 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2413 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2414 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2415 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2416 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2417 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2418 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2419
2420 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2421 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2422 hammering the server.
2423
c1114884
PH
2424PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2425 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2426
7a0743eb
PH
2427PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2428
0d85fa3f
PH
2429PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2430 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2431 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2432
1bf43b78
PH
2433PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2434 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2435 one case where this was not true.
2436
520de300
PH
2437PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2438 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2439 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2440 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2441 fails.
2442
48c7f9e2
PH
2443PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2444 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2445 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2446 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2447 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2448 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2449 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2450 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2451 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2452 smtp transport.
2453
99ea1c86
PH
2454PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2455 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2456 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2457 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2458
a2042e78
PH
2459PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2460 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2461
4fbcfc2e
PH
2462PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2463 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2464 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2465
aa41d2de
PH
2466PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2467
af561417
PH
2468PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2469
3cc66b45
PH
2470PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2471
194cc0e4
PH
2472PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2473 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2474 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2475 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2476
a401ddaa
PH
2477PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2478 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2479
4e88a19f
PH
2480PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2481 be meaningful with "accept".
2482
d7d7b289
SC
2483SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2484 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2485
2486SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2487 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2488 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2489
2490SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2491 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2492 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2493 there is data to show.
2494 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2495
2496SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2497 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2498 as well as the number of messages.
2499
2500SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2501 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2502 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2503
2504SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2505 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2506 have a flag are now skipped.
2507
2508SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2509 Added the -emptyok flag.
2510
2511SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2512 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2513
0ea2a468
JJ
2514JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2515 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2516 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2517
2518JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2519 match 4.64-PH/13
2520
2521JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2522 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2523
2524JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2525
2526JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2527 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2528
8a10f5a4
PH
2529PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2530
30e18802
PH
2531PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2532 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2533 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2534 contravention of the specifications.
2535
55728a4f
PH
2536PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2537 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2538 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2539
d7837193
PH
2540PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2541 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2542 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2543
87054a31
PH
2544PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2545
ea2c01d2
MH
2546MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2547 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2548 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2549 some point in the past.
2550
e4fa6968
PH
2551PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2552 transport during callout processing was broken.
2553
56f5d9bd
PH
2554PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2555 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2556
922e1c28
PH
2557PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2558 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2559
21eb6e72
PH
2560PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2561 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2562
a0540757
PH
2563PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2564
944e9e9c 2565
478be7b0
SC
2566Exim version 4.63
2567-----------------
2568
2569SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2570 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2571
2572SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2573 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2574 there is data to show.
2575 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2576
2577SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2578 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2579
2b965a65
TF
2580TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2581 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2582
45b91596
PH
2583TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2584 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2585
c59f5781
TF
2586TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2587 submissions from trusted users.
2588
90fc3069
TF
2589TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2590 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2591
6083aca0
TF
2592TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2593 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2594 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2595 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2596 there is now a framework to start from.
2597
765b530f
PH
2598PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2599 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2600 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2601
4e167a8c
PH
2602PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2603
4608d683
PH
2604PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2605
b8dc3e4a
PH
2606PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2607
5418e93b
PH
2608PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2609 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2610 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2611
b4a9bda2
PH
2612PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2613 libradius.
2614
45b91596
PH
2615PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2616 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2617 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2618
5547e2c5
PH
2619PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2620 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2621 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2622 its arguments.
2623
dbcef0ea
PH
2624PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2625 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2626 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2627 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2628 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2629
25257489
PH
2630PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2631 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2632
c816d124
PH
2633PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2634
a9ccd69a
PH
2635PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2636 operations in malware.c.
2637
75fa1910
PH
2638PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2639 signatures.
2640
a7d7aa58
PH
2641PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2642 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2643 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2644 all.
2645
42119b09
PH
2646PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2647 statements to "add_header".
2648
41609df5
PH
2649PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2650 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2651
a5bd321b
PH
2652PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2653 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2654 latter.
2655
e85a7ad5 2656PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2657 so that it is now:
2658
e85a7ad5
PH
2659 ${if or { \
2660 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2661 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2662 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2663 }{no}{yes}}
2664
e85a7ad5
PH
2665 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2666 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2667
d8fe1c03
PH
2668PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2669 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2670
16282d2b
PH
2671PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2672 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2673 any possible encoding problems.
2674
35d40a98
PH
2675PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2676 but not after initializing Perl.
2677
034d99ab
PH
2678PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2679 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2680 apparently, which is not desirable.
2681
6ec97b1b
PH
2682PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2683 queries.
2684
e22ca4ac
JJ
2685JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2686 --not options
2687
2688JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2689
33d73e3b
PH
2690PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2691 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2692 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2693 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2694
9ecb03f3
PH
2695PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2696 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2697 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2698
084efe8d
PH
2699PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2700 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2701 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2702 0.12.
2703
366fc9f0
PH
2704PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2705 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2706 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2707 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2708 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2709
c59f5781 2710
c887c79e
TF
2711Exim version 4.62
2712-----------------
2713
2714TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2715 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2716
1cce3af8
PH
2717PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2718 patch).
2719
afb3eaaf
PH
2720PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2721 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2722 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2723 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2724 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2725 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2726 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2727 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2728 451 error is used.
2729
e173618b
PH
2730PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2731
dd16e114
PH
2732PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2733 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2734 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2735
f7fd3850
PH
2736PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2737 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2738 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2739 odd errors.
2740
d87df92c
PH
2741PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2742 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2743
7e9f683d
PH
2744PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2745 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2746 option (which defaults to 0600).
2747
bfad5236
PH
2748PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2749
01c490df
PH
2750PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2751 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2752 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2753 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2754 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2755 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2756 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2757
d6629cdc
PH
2758PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2759
1cce3af8 2760
214e2000
PH
2761Exim version 4.61
2762-----------------
2763
2764PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2765 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2766 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2767 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2768 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2769 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2770 addresses as local.
2771
f9daeae0
PH
2772PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2773 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2774
7e66e54d
PH
2775PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2776
c8ea1597
PH
2777PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2778 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2779 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2780 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2781 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2782 grumble.
2783
911f6fde
PH
2784PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2785 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2786
47ca6d6c
PH
2787PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2788 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2789 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2790 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2791 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2792
ed0e9820
PH
2793PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2794 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2795 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2796 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2797
eff37e47
PH
2798PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2799 be the same on different OS.
2800
1921d2ea
PH
2801PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2802 testing.
2803
b3f69ca8
JJ
2804JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2805 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2806
2807JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2808 in 4.61-PH/06
2809
424a1c63
PH
2810PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2811 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2812 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2813 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2814 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2815 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2816 bounce message.
2817
7a100415
PH
2818PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2819 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2820 when Exim was called.
2821
19b9dc85
PH
2822PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2823 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2824
309bd837
PH
2825PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2826 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2827 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2828 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2829
59e82a2a
PH
2830PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2831 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2832 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2833 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2834 changes:
2835
2836 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2837 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2838 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2839
2840 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2841 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2842 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2843
9edc04ce
PH
2844PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2845 feature).
2846
1349e1e5
PH
2847PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2848 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2849 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2850 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2851 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2852 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2853 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2854 values from the SRV records were lost.
2855
ea49d0e1
PH
2856PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2857 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2858 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2859
064a94c9
PH
2860PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2861 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2862 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2863
727071f8
PH
2864PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2865 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2866 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2867 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2868 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2869 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2870 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2871 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2872 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2873 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2874
f78eb7c6
PH
2875PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2876 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2877 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2878
21c28500
PH
2879PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2880 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2881
2882PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2883 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2884 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2885 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2886 is given.
2887
1688f43b
PH
2888PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2889 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2890 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2891
2892PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2893 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2894 PH/23 above applies.
2895
9675b384
PH
2896PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2897 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2898 (for which there is an explicit test).
2899
6a3f1455
PH
2900PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2901
dac79d3e
PH
2902PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2903 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2904 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2905 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2906 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2907
5977a0b3
PH
2908PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2909 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2910 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2911 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2912
c91535f3
PH
2913PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2914 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2915 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2916
0d46a8c8
PH
2917PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2918
278c6e6c
PH
2919PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2920
2cbb4081
PH
2921PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2922 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2923 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2924
3eef829e
PH
2925PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2926 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2927 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2928 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2929 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2930
1ab95fa6
PH
2931PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2932 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2933 the message gets confusing).
2934
230205fc
PH
2935PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2936 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2937 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2938 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2939
75e0e026
PH
2940PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2941 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2942 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2943 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2944 same order.
2945
2946PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2947 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2948 the different processes.
2949
145396a6
PH
2950PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2951
3cd34f13
PH
2952PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2953
11121d3d
JJ
2954JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2955 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2956
2957JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2958 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2959
2960JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2961 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2962 messages matching specified criteria.
2963
8def5aaf
PH
2964PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2965
929ba01c
PH
2966PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2967 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2968
2632889e
PH
2969PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2970 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2971 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2972 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2973 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2974 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2975 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2976 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2977 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2978 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2979
944a9c55
PH
2980PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2981 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2982 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2983
4a23603b
PH
2984PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2985
4730f942
PH
2986PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2987 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2988 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2989 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2990 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2991 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2992 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2993 the variable.
2994
30dba1e6
PH
2995PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2996 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2997
382afc6b
PH
2998PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2999
a86229cf
PH
3000PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3001
50c99ba6
PH
3002PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3003
d35e429d
PH
3004PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3005 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3006 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3007 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3008 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3009 size of the count of files.
3010
f90d018c
PH
3011PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3012
75def545
PH
3013PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3014 used in LMTP mode:
3015
3016 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3017 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3018 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3019 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3020
3021 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3022 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3023 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3024
3025PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3026 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3027 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3028 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3029 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3030
c46782ef
PH
3031PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3032 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3033
71fafd95
PH
3034PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3035 will now be deprecated.
3036
2c5db4fd
PH
3037PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3038
9cf6b11a
JJ
3039JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3040 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3041 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3042
3043JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3044 with very large, slow to parse queues
3045
3046JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3047
3048JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3049
898d150f
PH
3050PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3051 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3052 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3053 SMTP output lines.
3054
46218253
PH
3055PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3056 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3057 Sieve code now uses this.
3058
e97957bc
PH
3059PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3060 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3061
81e509d7
PH
3062PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3063 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3064
3d240ff7
PH
3065PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3066
b37c4101
PH
3067PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3068 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3069 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3070 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3071 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3072
79378e0f
PH
3073PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3074 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3075 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3076 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3077
e49c7bb4
PH
3078PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3079
d114ec46
PH
3080PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3081
f3d7df6c
PH
3082PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3083 is preferred over IPv4.
3084
715ab376
PH
3085PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3086 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3087 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3088 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3089 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3090 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3091 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3092
6b31b150
PH
3093PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3094 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3095 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3096
3097PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3098
d515a917
PH
3099PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3100 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3101 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3102 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3103 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3104 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3105 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3106 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3107 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3108 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3109 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3110
9b8fadde
PH
3111PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3112 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3113 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3114
214e2000 3115
5de37277
PH
3116Exim version 4.60
3117-----------------
3118
cc38ddbf
PH
3119PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3120
3121 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3122 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3123
3124 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3125 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3126 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3127
72fdd6ae
PH
3128PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3129
3130 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3131 not a single digit.
3132
3133 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3134 string.
3135
3136 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3137 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3138 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3139 silly things.
3140
3141 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3142 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3143
3144 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3145 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3146
cb741023
PH
3147PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3148 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3149 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3150
f174f16e
PH
3151PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3152 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3153
c25242d7
PH
3154PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3155 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3156
3157 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3158
3159 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3160 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3161 this:
3162
3163 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3164
82c19f95
PH
3165PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3166 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3167 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3168 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3169 identical. For example:
3170
3171 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3172
3173 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3174 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3175 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3176
d7ffbc12
PH
3177PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3178 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3179 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3180 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3181
9f526266
PH
3182PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3183 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3184 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3185 message.
3186
87fcc8b9
PH
3187PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3188
3189 o fixes some comments
3190 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3191 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3192 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3193 and documents the missing references header update
3194
3195 and most important:
3196
3197 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3198 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3199 result)
3200
456682f5
PH
3201PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3202 Electronic Mail") by including:
3203
3204 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3205
3206 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3207 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3208 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3209 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3210 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3211
3212 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3213
3214 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3215
3216 The auto-replied keyword:
3217
3218 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3219 message by an automatic process,
3220
3221 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3222
3223 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3224 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3225
3226 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3227 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3228 other messages.
3229
3e46c1aa
PH
3230PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3231 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3232
49826d12
PH
3233PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3234
eba0c039
PH
3235PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3236 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3237 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3238
a0d6ba8a
PH
3239PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3240 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3241 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3242
f0917727
PH
3243PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3244 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3245 and treats the condition as false.
3246
096fee00
PH
3247PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3248
024bd3c2
PH
3249PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3250 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3251 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3252 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3253 not changing the active code.
3254
3255 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3256 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3257
3258 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3259 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3260
df199fec
PH
3261PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3262 (Bugzilla #53).
3263
d27f1df3
PH
3264PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3265 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3266 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3267 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3268 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3269 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3270 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3271 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3272 the text comparison.
3273
96776534
PH
3274PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3275 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3276 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3277 The same fix has been applied.
3278
5de37277 3279
9a799bc0
PH
3280Exim version 4.54
3281-----------------
3282
3283PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3284 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3285 It now does.
3286
99a4b039
PH
3287PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3288 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3289
3290PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3291
4b233853
PH
3292PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3293 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3294 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3295 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3296 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3297
8857ccfd
PH
3298TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3299 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3300 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3301 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3302 or /domain=).
3303
433a2980
PH
3304PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3305 testing suite.
3306
3e46c1aa 3307
9a799bc0 3308
e3a311ba
TK
3309Exim version 4.53
3310-----------------
3311
3312TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3313 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3314
13b685f9
PH
3315PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3316
395ff96d
PH
3317PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3318
5b68f6e4
PH
3319PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3320 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3321 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3322
1ab52c69
PH
3323PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3324 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3325 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3326
b07e6aa3
PH
3327PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3328 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3329 operating systems.
3330
254e032f
PH
3331PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3332 ${stat: expansion item.
3333
3af76a81
PH
3334PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3335 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3336
2548ba04
PH
3337PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3338 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3339 file for comments.
3340
b6c6011d
PH
3341PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3342
cf39cf57
PH
3343PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3344 setting.
3345
f1513293
PH
3346PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3347 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3348
727549a4
PH
3349TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3350
af46795e
PH
3351PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3352 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3353 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3354 the end of the subprocess.
3355
d7b47fd0
PH
3356PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3357 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3358 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3359 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3360 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3361
ee744174
JJ
3362JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3363
b582ab87
PH
3364TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3365
41a13e0a
PH
3366PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3367 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3368
f625cc5a
PH
3369PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3370
3371PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3372
21f7af35
PH
3373PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3374 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3375 HP-UX compiler.
3376
31480e42
PH
3377PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3378
2d280592
PH
3379PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3380 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3381 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3382
7cd1141b
PH
3383PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3384 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3385
3386PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3387 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3388
750af86e
PH
3389PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3390 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3391
3392 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3393 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3394
3395 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3396 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3397 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3398 contributed by a Radius user.
3399
3400PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3401 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3402
4304270b
TK
3403TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3404 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3405
750af86e
PH
3406PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3407 available.
3408
64ffc24f
PH
3409PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3410 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3411 received.
3412
5dd9625b
PH
3413PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3414 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3415 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3416 header lines when this was not necessary.
3417
5591031b
PH
3418PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3419
ba18e66a
PH
3420PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3421 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3422 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3423 exists".
3424
9cec981f
PH
3425PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3426 -bV or -d is used.
3427
aa2b5c79
PH
3428PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3429 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3430 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3431 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3432
48a53b7f
PH
3433PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3434
1c59d63b
PH
3435PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3436
671012da
TK
3437TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3438
1509d3a8
PH
3439PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3440
3441PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3442 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3443 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3444 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3445 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3446 settings.
3447
3448PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3449
2fe1a124
PH
3450PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3451 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3452 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3453 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3454 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3455 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3456 which is clearly wrong.
3457
8800895a
PH
3458PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3459
ccfdb010
PH
3460PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3461 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3462 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3463 subsequently added.
3464
1130bfb0
PH
3465PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3466 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3467
ebcb507f
PH
3468PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3469
c35e155c
PH
3470PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3471 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3472
95d1f782
PH
3473PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3474 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3475
fd6de02e
PH
3476PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3477 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3478
58de37c5
PH
3479PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3480 recipients, not senders.
3481
261cf466
TF
3482TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3483 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3484
3ee512ff
PH
3485PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3486
e08c430f
PH
3487PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3488
bef5a11f
PH
3489PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3490 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3491 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3492 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3493
7546de58
TF
3494TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3495
e5d5a95f
TF
3496TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3497 clock is set back in time.
3498
2e88a017
TF
3499TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3500 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3501
a5f65aa4
TF
3502TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3503 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3504
e7726cbf
PH
3505PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3506 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3507 (see PH/47 above).
3508
a7fdad5b
TF
3509TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3510 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3511 header rewrites.
3512
6af56900
PH
3513PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3514 type ("H").
3515
0925ede6
PH
3516PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3517
66afa403
TF
3518TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3519 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3520 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3521
0154e85a
TF
3522TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3523 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3524 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3525 helo verification defer as a failure.
3526
16f12c76
PH
3527PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3528 actual error message.
3529
bbe902f0 3530
e5a9dba6
PH
3531Exim version 4.52
3532-----------------
3533
3534TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3535
22c3b60b
PH
3536PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3537 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3538 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3539 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3540
06a9b4b5
PH
3541TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3542
c1ac6996
PH
3543PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3544 can still be requested.
3545
9c7a242c
PH
3546PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3547 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3548 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3549 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3550
87ba3f5f
PH
3551TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3552 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3553 circumstances, but probably never did.
3554
3555PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3556 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3557 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3558 in the header line.
3559
29aba418
TF
3560TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3561
fe0dab11
TF
3562TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3563 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3564
11d337a4
TK
3565TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3566
3567TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3568
415c8f3b
PH
3569PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3570 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3571 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3572 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3573 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3574 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3575
958541e9
PH
3576PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3577 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3578 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3579 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3580 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3581 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3582
c206415f
TK
3583TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3584 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3585
2a4be8f9
PH
3586PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3587 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3588
1cba11c5
SC
3589SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3590 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3591
4c04137d 3592SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3593
3594SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3595
3596SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3597
3598SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3599
3600SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3601
3602SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3603
1005d00e
TK
3604TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3605
3606TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3607 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3608 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3609
3610TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3611 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3612 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3613 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3614
9b4768fa
PH
3615PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3616 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3617 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3618
3619PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3620 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3621 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3622 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3623
0d7eb84a
PH
3624PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3625 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3626 to be made).
3627
3628PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3629 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3630 should work with maildirs and everything.
3631
40727bee
TK
3632TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3633 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3634
554d2369
TF
3635TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3636 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3637
1f922db1
PH
3638PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3639 function for BDB 4.3.
3640
ef213c3b
PH
3641PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3642
8ac170f3
PH
3643PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3644 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3645 involved.
3646
b1c749bb
PH
3647PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3648 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3649 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3650 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3651 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3652 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3653
4aac9b49
PH
3654PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3655 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3656 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3657 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3658 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3659 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3660 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3661 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3662
294520c8
TK
3663TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3664 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3665 details.
3666
5bd022fe
PH
3667PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3668 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3669
90e9ce59
PH
3670PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3671 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3672 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3673 test. It is now used for both.
3674
5ea81592
PH
3675PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3676 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3677 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3678 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3679 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3680 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3681
c6c2dc1d
PH
3682PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3683 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3684 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3685 string_vformat().
3686
fffffe4c
PH
3687PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3688 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3689 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3690
9a26b6b2
PH
3691PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3692 experimental DomainKeys support:
3693
3694 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3695 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3696 the control was given.
3697
3698 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3699
4aee0225
PH
3700PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3701
32d668a5
PH
3702PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3703
8187c3f3
PH
3704PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3705 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3706 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3707 db.h files).
3708
ff790e47 3709PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3710 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3711 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3712 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3713 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3714 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3715 course.
ff790e47 3716
5417f6d1
PH
3717PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3718 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3719 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3720 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3721 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3722 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3723
59cf8544
PH
3724PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3725 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3726 do -d+all out of habit.
3727
e7ad8a65
PH
3728PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3729 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3730 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3731
ade42478
PH
3732PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3733 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3734 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3735 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3736 record types that Exim uses.
3737
182ad5cf
PH
3738PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3739 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3740 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3741 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3742 non-existent file that was broken.
3743
b0d9fc80
TK
3744TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3745 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3746
3747TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3748 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3749 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3750
3751TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3752
47c7a64a
PH
3753PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3754 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3755 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3756 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3757 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3758 same time.
3759
a388bce4
SC
3760SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3761 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3762 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3763 at a slight CPU cost.
3764
3765SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3766 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3767
3768SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3769 by Marc Sherman.
3770
0793e4ed
SC
3771SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3772
c58b88df
PH
3773PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3774 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3775
e7ad8a65 3776
7982096b
PH
3777Exim version 4.51
3778-----------------
3779
1a46a8c5
PH
3780TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3781 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3782
2f079f46 3783TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3784
3785TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3786
3787PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3788 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3789
3790PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3791 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3792 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3793 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3794 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3795 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3796 file.
3797
3798PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3799 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3800 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3801 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3802 these two options.
3803
3804PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3805 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3806 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3807 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3808 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3809 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3810 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3811 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3812
3813PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3814 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3815
3816PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3817 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3818 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3819 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3820 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3821 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3822
3823PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3824 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3825 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3826 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3827
3828PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3829 Finch).
3830
3831PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3832 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3833
49c2d5ea
PH
3834PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3835 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3836 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3837 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3838 message.
49c2d5ea 3839
bf759a8b
PH
3840PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3841
83364d30
PH
3842PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3843 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3844
7999bbd7
PH
3845PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3846 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3847 to what was transported.)
3848
7dbf77c9
PH
3849TF/01 Added $received_time.
3850
74e0617f
PH
3851PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3852 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3853 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3854 spamd_address settings.
3855
2f079f46
PH
3856PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3857 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3858 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3859 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3860 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3861
8c841523
PH
3862PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3863
7766a4f0
PH
3864PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3865 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3866 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3867 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3868 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3869
8b417f2c
PH
3870PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3871 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3872
901f42cb
PH
3873PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3874 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3875 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3876 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3877 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3878 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3879 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3880 for failure.
3881
f9b9210e
PH
3882PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3883 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3884 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3885 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3886 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3887 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3888 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3889 "input=".
3890
54cdb463
PH
3891PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3892
cf00dad6
PH
3893PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3894 driver and ACL definitions.
3895
acb1b346
PH
3896PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3897 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3898
c5ddb310
PH
3899PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3900 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3901 understands it better than I do:
3902
3903 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3904 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3905
3906 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3907 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3908 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3909 => three warnings about OTP not working
3910 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3911
3912 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3913 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3914 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3915 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3916 for each call.)
3917 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3918 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3919
3920 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3921 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3922 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3923
31619da6
PH
3924PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3925 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3926 specified.
3927
bebaf0fc
PH
3928PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3929 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3930 "Linux".
3931
475fe28a
PH
3932PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3933 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3934 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3935
3936 warn !verify = sender
3937 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3938
3939 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3940 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3941
7e8bec7a
PH
3942PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3943
3944 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3945 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3946
3947 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3948 nomenclature these days.)
3949
e4a89c47
PH
3950PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3951 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3952
5ca2a9a1
PH
3953PH/30 In these circumstances:
3954 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3955 . First host does not offer TLS;
3956 . First host accepts first address;
3957 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3958 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3959 . Second host accepts second address.
3960 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3961 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3962 address.
7e8bec7a 3963
c688b954
PH
3964PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3965 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3966 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3967 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3968 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3969
fed77020
PH
3970PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3971 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3972
7fe1560f
PH
3973PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3974 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3975
ebb6e6d5
PH
3976PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3977 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3978 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3979
9c4e8f60
PH
3980PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3981 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3982 overlooked.
3983
3984PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3985
d7174846
PH
3986PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3987 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3988 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3989 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3990 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3991 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3992 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3993
3994 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3995 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3996 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3997 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3998 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3999
4000 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4001 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4002 routed further.
4003
cfe75fc3
PH
4004PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4005 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4006 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4007 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4008 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4009 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4010
be22d70e
PH
4011PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4012
0612b098
PH
4013PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4014 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4015 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4016 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4017 printable escape sequences.
4018
2e0c1448
PH
4019PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4020 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4021 body only.
4022
447d236c
PH
4023PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4024 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4025 are as follows:
4026
4027 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4028 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4029 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4030 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4031 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4032
4033 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4034 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4035 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4036
d20976dc
PH
4037PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4038
f656d135
PH
4039PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4040 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4041 play with."
4042
2e2a30b4
PH
4043PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4044 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4045 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4046 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4047 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4048 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4049 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4050 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4051 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4052 the log output.
4053
9176e9f0
PH
4054PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4055 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4056 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4057 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4058 "make".
4059
7982096b 4060
bbe902f0
PH
4061A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4062----------------------------------------
4063
4064Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4065changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4066needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4067in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4068that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4069release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4070from 4.43.
4071
4072I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
40734.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4074those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4075historical information.
4076
4077
f7b63901 4078Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4079-----------------
4080
5fe762f6
PH
4081 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4082
139059f6 4083 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4084 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4085
7086e875
PH
4086 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4087 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4088 place.
4089
35af9f61
PH
4090 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4091 filter fails to execute.
4092
b668c215
PH
4093 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4094 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4095 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4096 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4097 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4098
a494b1e1
PH
4099 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4100
4101 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4102 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4103 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4104 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4105
c5fcb476
PH
4106 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4107 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4108 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4109 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4110 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4111
69358f02
PH
4112 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4113
5be20824
PH
411410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4115
eb2c0248
PH
411611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4117 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4118 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4119 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4120
2a3eea10
PH
412112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4122 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4123 sender verification.
4124
412513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4126 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4127
23c7ff99
PH
412814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4129
4deaf07d
PH
413015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4131 connection timeout.
4132
926e1192
PH
413316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4134 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4135
650edc6f
PH
413617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4137 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4138
2c7db3f5
PH
413918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4140 information about exactly what failed.
4141
3d235903
PH
414219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4143
7c7ad977
PH
414420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4145 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4146 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4147
981756db
PH
414821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4149 It is now set to "smtps".
4150
d4eb88df
PH
415122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4152 ignore_target_hosts.
4153
415423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4155 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4156 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4157 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4158 "[x.x.x.x]".
4159
7d468ab8
PH
416024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4161 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4162 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4163
416425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4165 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4166 wake it up if nothing else does.
4167
62c0818f
PH
416826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4169 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4170 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4171 end up negative.
4172
26034054
PH
417327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4174 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4175
af66f652
PH
417628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4177
90af77f4
PH
417829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4179 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4180 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4181 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4182 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4183 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4184 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4185 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4186
d8ef3577
PH
418730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4188 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4189 than one IP address.
4190
5cb8cbc6
PH
419131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4192 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4193 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4194 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4195
14702f5b
PH
419632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4197 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4198 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4199 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4200 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4201 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4202
063b1e99
PH
420333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4204 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4205 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4206 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4207
652e1b65
PH
420834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4209 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4210 respected.
4211
6f0c9a4f
PH
421235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4213 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4214 $sender_host_address.
4215
33397d19
PH
421636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4217 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4218 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4219 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4220 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4221 very small.
4222
7bb56e1f
PH
422337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4224
4225 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4226 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4227
ea3bc19b
PH
4228 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4229 just the host names, not the priorities.
4230
4231 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4232 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4233 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4234
ea3bc19b 4235 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4236 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4237
0bcb2a0e
PH
423838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4239 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4240 domain.
4241
2ac0e484
PH
424239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4243
4e1fde53
PH
424440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4245 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4246
de365ded
PH
424741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4248 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4249 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4250
f05da2e8
PH
425142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4252
d6453af2
PH
425343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4254
f7b63901
PH
425544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4256
425745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4258 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4259 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4260 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4261 because the tests only now provoked it.
4262
a444213a
PH
426346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4264 (this can affect the format of dates).
4265
0ec020ea
PH
426647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4267 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4268 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4269 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4270
b1206957
PH
427148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4272
427349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4274 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4275 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4276 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4277
26dd5a95
PH
427850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4279 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4280 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4281
343b2385
PH
428251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4283 autoreply.
4284
1c5466b9
PH
428552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4286 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4287 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4288 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4289 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4290 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4291 is going on).
4292
55ee9ee3
PH
429353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4294 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4295 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4296 the line.
4297
d38f8232
PH
429854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4299 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4300 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4301
4302 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4303 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4304 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4305 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4306 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4307 so I produce this patch..."
4308
3295e65b
PH
4309 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4310 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4311 is not defined.
4312
7102e136
PH
431355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4314 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4315 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4316 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4317 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4318
3ca0ba97
PH
431956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4320
c2bcbe20
PH
432157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4322 long debug lines gets shown.
4323
18ce445d
PH
432458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4325 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4326
1f5b4c3d
PH
432759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4328
4329 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4330 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4331 of $primary_hostname.
4332
b975ba52
PH
433360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4334 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4335 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4336 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4337 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4338 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4339 by change 4.50/55 above.
4340
4341 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4342 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4343 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4344 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4345 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4346 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4347 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4348
434961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4350 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4351 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4352 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4353
17ffcae7
PH
435462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4355 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4356
d95f9fdb
PH
435763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4358 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4359 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4360 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4361 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4362
86b8287f
PH
436364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4364 This has been fixed.
4365
60dc5e56
PH
436665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4367 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4368 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4369 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4370 the caching.)
4371
533244af
PH
437266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4373
a5a28604
PH
437467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4375 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4376 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4377 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4378
7e634d24
PH
437968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4380 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4381
3e11c26b
PH
438269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4383 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4384 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4385
6729cf78
PH
438670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4387 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4388 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4389 message there.
4390
00f00ca5
PH
439171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4392 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4393 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4394
c9bdd01c
PH
439572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4396 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4397 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4398 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4399
d43194df
PH
440073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4401 during host lookups.
4402
fe5b5d0b
PH
440374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4404 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4405
4406 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4407
76a2d7ba
PH
440875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4409 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4410 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4411 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4412 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4413 background.
4414
441576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4416 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4417
04f7d5b9
PH
441877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4419 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4420 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4421
bc60667e
PH
442278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4423
bb6e88ff
PH
442479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4425 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4426 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4427 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4428 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4429 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4430 process earlier.
4431
1e70f85b
PH
443280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4433 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4434 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4435 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4436 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4437
443881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4439 tables).
4440
4e01f9d6
PH
444182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4442
1ee1cef2
PH
444383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4444 "vacation" handling.
4445
6e2b4ccc
PH
444684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4447 OS variants using glibc.
4448
8e669ac1
PH
444985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4450
495ae4b0 4451
bbe902f0
PH
4452----------------------------------------------------
4453See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4454----------------------------------------------------
4455
4456
4457Exim version 4.44
4458-----------------
4459
4460 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4461 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4462 transport
4463
4464 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4465 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4466 place.
4467
4468 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4469 filter fails to execute.
4470
4471 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4472 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4473 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4474 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4475 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4476
4477 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4478 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4479 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4480 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4481
4482 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4483 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4484 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4485 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4486 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4487
4488 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4489
4490 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4491 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4492 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4493 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4494
4495 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4496 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4497 sender verification.
4498
449910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4500 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4501
450211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4503 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4504
450512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4506 ignore_target_hosts.
4507
450813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4509 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4510 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4511 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4512 "[x.x.x.x]".
4513
451414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4515 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4516 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4517
451815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4519 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4520 wake it up if nothing else does.
4521
452216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4523 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4524 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4525 end up negative.
4526
452717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4528 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4529
ea3a6f44 453018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4531
453219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4533 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4534 empty pattern.
4535
453620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4537 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4538 one IP address.
4539
ea3a6f44
NM
454021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4541 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4542 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4543 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4544 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4545 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4546
ea3a6f44
NM
454722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4548 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4549 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4550
455123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4552 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4553 $sender_host_address.
4554
455524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4556
ea3a6f44
NM
455725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4558 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4559 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4560
456126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4562 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4563
ea3a6f44
NM
456427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4565 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4566
ea3a6f44
NM
456728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4568 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4569 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4570 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4571
457229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4573 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4574 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4575
ea3a6f44
NM
457630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4577 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4578 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4579 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4580
ea3a6f44
NM
458131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4582 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4583 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4584
ea3a6f44
NM
458531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4586 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4587
ea3a6f44
NM
458832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4589 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4590 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4591 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4592 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4593 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4594 is going on).
bbe902f0 4595
ea3a6f44
NM
459633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4597 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4598 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4599 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4600 CAN-2005-0021
4601
ea3a6f44
NM
460234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4603 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4604 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4605 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4606 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4607 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4608 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4609
4610 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4611 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4612 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4613 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4614 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4615 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4616 CAN-2005-0021
4617
ea3a6f44
NM
461835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4619 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4620 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4621 CAN-2005-0022
4622
ea3a6f44
NM
462336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4624 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4625 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4626 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4627 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4628
ea3a6f44
NM
462937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4630 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4631 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4632 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4633 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4634
ea3a6f44
NM
463538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4636 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4637 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4638 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4639 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4640
4641
495ae4b0
PH
4642Exim version 4.43
4643-----------------
4644
4645 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4646 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4647 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4648 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4649 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4650 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4651 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4652
4653 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4654 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4655 the delivery.
4656
4657 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4658
4659 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4660
4661 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4662 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4663 to local_scan().
4664
4665 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4666 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4667 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4668 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4669 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4670
4671 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4672 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4673
4674 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4675
4676 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4677
467810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4679 header_sender only.
4680
468111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4682 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4683
468412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4685 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4686 affecting debugging statements).
4687
468813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4689
469014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4691 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4692 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4693 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4694 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4695 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4696 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4697 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4698 after the received time, and all would be well.
4699
470015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4701 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4702 condition in an expansion string.
4703
470416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4705
470617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4707 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4708 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4709 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4710 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4711 job under whatever limits there are.
4712
471318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4714
471519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4716 space).
4717
471820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4719 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4720 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4721 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4722 return path is set.
4723
472421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4725 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4726 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4727 binary data in such strings.
4728
472922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4730
473123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4732 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4733 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4734 failure, which is pointless.
4735
473624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4737
473825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4739
474026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4741 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4742 Sender: header lines.
4743
474427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4745 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4746 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4747
474828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4749 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4750 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4751 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4752 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4753 happens.
4754
475529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4756 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4757 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4758 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4759 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4760
476130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4762 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4763 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4764 1024.
4765
476631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4767 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4768
476932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4770 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4771
477233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4773
477432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4775
477633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4777
477834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4779 syntax error.
4780
478135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4782
478336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4784
478537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4786 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4787 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4788 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4789
479038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4791 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4792
4793
4794Exim version 4.42
4795-----------------
4796
4797 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4798 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4799 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4800 it was not quoted.
4801 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4802 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4803 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4804 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4805 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4806 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4807
4808 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4809 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4810 verification failure".
4811
4812 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4813 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4814 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4815 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4816
4817 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4818 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4819 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4820 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4821 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4822 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4823 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4824 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4825 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4826 treated as a timeout.
4827
4828 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4829 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4830 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4831 not set for Exim filters).
4832
4833 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4834 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4835 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4836
4837 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4838
4839 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4840 try to make them clearer.
4841
4842 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4843 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4844
4845 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4846
4847 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4848
484910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4850 only the Cygwin environment.
4851
485211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4853 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4854 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4855 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4856 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4857
485812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4859 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4860 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4861 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4862 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4863 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4864 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4865
486613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4867 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4868
486914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4870
4871 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4872 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4873 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4874
4875 To: susanne@some.where
4876
4877 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4878 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4879 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4880 of addresses in From: header lines).
4881
4882 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4883 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4884 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4885
4886 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4887 treated as non-personal.
4888
4889 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4890 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4891
489215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4893
489416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4895
489617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4897 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4898 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4899
490018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4901 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4902
490319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4904 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4905 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4906 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4907 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4908 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4909
491020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4911 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4912 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4913 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4914 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4915 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4916 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4917 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4918
4919 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4920
492121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4922 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4923
492422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4925 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4926 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4927
492823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4929 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4930
493124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4932 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4933 rather than long int.
4934
493525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4936
493726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4938
4939
4940Exim version 4.41
4941-----------------
4942
4943 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4944 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4945 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4946 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4947 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4948 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4949
4950
4951Exim version 4.40
4952-----------------
4953
4954 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4955 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4956
4957 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4958 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4959 socklen_t is defined.
4960
4961 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4962 always exist.
4963
4964 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4965 configured.
4966
4967 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4968 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4969 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4970 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4971 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4972
4973 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4974 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4975 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4976 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4977
4978 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4979 of flapping under certain conditions.
4980
4981 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4982 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4983 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4984
4985 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4986
498710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4988
498911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4990 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4991 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4992 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4993
499412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4995 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4996 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4997 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4998 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4999 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5000 preserved with the message after it was received.
5001
500213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5003 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5004 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5005 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5006 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5007 test suite worked just fine.
5008
500914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5010 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5011 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5012
501315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5014 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5015 string.
5016
501716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5018 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5019 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5020 does not fully solve it.
5021
502217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5023 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5024 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5025 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5026 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5027
502818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5029 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5030 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5031
503219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5033 string, for example:
5034
5035 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5036
5037 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5038 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5039 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5040 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5041 the routers could not see them.
5042
504320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5044 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5045
504621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5047 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5048 output).
5049
505022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5051 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5052 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5053 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5054 that needed quoting.
5055
505623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5057 was not being matched caselessly.
5058
505924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5060 backslashes.
5061
506225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5063 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5064 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5065 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5066 when use_sender is false.
5067
506826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5069
507027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5071
507228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5073
507429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5075 the configuration file.
5076
507730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5078 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5079
508031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5081
508232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5083 bytes in the message body.
5084
508533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5086 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5087 delivery.
5088
508934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5090
509135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5092
509336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5094 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5095 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5096 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5097 another IP address.
5098
5099
5100Exim version 4.34
5101-----------------
5102
5103 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5104 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5105
5106 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5107 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5108 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5109 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5110 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5111
5112 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5113 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5114
5115 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5116 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5117 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5118
5119 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5120 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5121 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5122
5123 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5124 for routers.
5125
5126 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5127 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5128 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5129 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5130 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5131 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5132 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5133
5134
5135Exim version 4.33
5136-----------------
5137
5138 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5139 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5140 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5141 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5142 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5143 default (and expected) setting.
5144
5145 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5146 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5147 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5148 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5149
5150 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5151 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5152
5153 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5154 in domain lists.
5155
5156 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5157 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5158 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5159 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5160 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5161 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5162
5163 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5164 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5165 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5166
5167 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5168 part (NOT match_host).
5169
5170 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5171
5172 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5173 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5174 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5175 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5176 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5177 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5178 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5179 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5180 the same named file.
5181
518210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5183 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5184 when Exim is built.
5185
518611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5187 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5188 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5189 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5190 a host name.
5191
519212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5193 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5194 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5195
519613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5197
519814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5199
520015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5201
520216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5203 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5204
520517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5206 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5207 before starting the TLS session.
5208
520918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5210
521119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5212 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5213
521420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5215 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5216 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5217 colon in the middle).
5218
5219
5220Exim version 4.32
5221-----------------
5222
5223 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5224 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5225 multiple configurations are in use.
5226
5227 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5228 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5229 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5230 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5231 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5232 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5233
5234 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5235 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5236
5237 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5238 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5239 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5240
5241 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5242 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5243 occurs.
5244
5245 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5246 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5247
5248 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5249
5250 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5251 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5252
5253 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5254
5255 -prval:sval
5256
5257 is equivalent to
5258
5259 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5260
5261 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5262 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5263 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5264 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5265 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5266
526710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5268 Exim's behaviour:
5269
5270 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5271 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5272 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5273 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5274 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5275 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5276
5277 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5278 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5279 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5280 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5281 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5282 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5283 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5284 string.
5285
5286 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5287 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5288 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5289 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5290 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5291
529211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5293
529412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5295 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5296 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5297
529813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5299
530014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5301 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5302 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5303 information.
5304
530515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5306 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5307
530816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5309 Three changes have been made:
5310
5311 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5312 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5313 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5314 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5315 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5316
5317 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5318 been restored.
5319
5320 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5321 the modified behaviour.
5322
5323
5324Exim version 4.31
5325-----------------
5326
5327 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5328 Larry Rosenman.
5329
5330 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5331 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5332
5333 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5334 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5335 try to track down a specific problem.
5336
5337 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5338 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5339 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5340
5341 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5342 warning.
5343
5344 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5345 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5346 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5347 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5348 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5349 some earlier ones do not.
5350
5351 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5352
5353 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5354 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5355 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5356 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5357 address literals are enabled, of course).
5358
5359 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5360
536110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5362 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5363 by a command such as
5364
5365 exim -f "" ...
5366
5367 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5368
536911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5370
537112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5372 remained set. It is now erased.
5373
537413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5375 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5376
537714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5378 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5379 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5380 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5381 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5382 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5383 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5384 appropriate error code.
5385
538615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5387 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5388 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5389 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5390 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5391 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5392
539316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5394 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5395 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5396
539717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5398 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5399 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5400 terminate the header.
5401
540218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5403 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5404 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5405
540619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5407 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5408 (4.30/29). In particular:
5409
5410 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5411 imposed.
5412
5413 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5414 to write a maildirsize file.
5415
5416 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5417 the transport, the new value overrides.
5418
5419 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5420 count.
5421
542220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5423 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5424 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5425 space or a tab.
5426
542721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5428 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5429 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5430 the fallback hosts.
5431
543222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5433 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5434 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5435
543623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5437 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5438 using a union.
5439
544024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5441 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5442 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5443
544425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5445
544626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5447
544827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5449
545028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5451 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5452 become corrupted.
5453
545429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5455 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5456 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5457 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5458 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5459 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5460 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5461 too great.
5462
546330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5464 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5465 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5466 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5467 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5468 incorrectly.
5469
547031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5471 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5472 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5473 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5474 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5475 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5476 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5477 cached value only when the same options are set.
5478
547932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5480
548133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5482 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5483 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5484 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5485 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5486
548734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5488 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5489 it is clearly obsolete.
5490
549135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5492 transport.
5493
549436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5495 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5496 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5497 times.
5498
549937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5500 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5501 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5502 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5503 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5504
550538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5506 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5507 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5508 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5509
551039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5511
5512 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5513
5514 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5515 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5516 2^31.
5517
551840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5519 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5520 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5521 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5522 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5523 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5524 $localpart_data.
5525
552641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5527 with the -f command-line option.
5528
552942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5530 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5531 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5532 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5533 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5534 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5535
553643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5537 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5538 line.
5539
554044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5541 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5542 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5543 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5544 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5545 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5546 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5547 buffer is too small.
5548
554945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5550 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5551
555246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5553 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5554 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5555 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5556 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5557 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5558 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5559 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5560 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5561
556247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5563 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5564 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5565
556648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5567 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5568 ACL").
5569
557049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5571 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5572 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5573 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5574 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5575
557650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5577 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5578 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5579 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5580 is set.
5581
558251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5583
558452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5585
558653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5587 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5588
558954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5590 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5591 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5592
559355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5594 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5595 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5596 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5597 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5598
559956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5600 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5601 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5602 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5603 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5604 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5605 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5606
560757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5608 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5609 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5610 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5611 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5612 the test of how many are available.
5613
561458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5615 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5616 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5617 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5618 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5619 new message is started.
5620
562159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5622 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5623
562460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5625 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5626
562761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5628 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5629 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5630 is no long logged.
5631
563262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5633 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5634 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5635 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5636 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5637 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5638 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5639
564063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5641 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5642 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5643 interpreted as octal.
5644
564564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5646 setting.
5647
564865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5649 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5650 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5651 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5652 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5653 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5654
565566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5656 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5657 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5658 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5659
5660 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5661 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5662 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5663 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5664
5665 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5666 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5667 is a bug fix.
5668
5669 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5670 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5671
567267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5673
567468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5675 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5676 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5677 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5678
567969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5680 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5681 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5682 supplied", which is not helpful.
5683
568470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5685 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5686 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5687
568871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5689 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5690 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5691 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5692 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5693 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5694 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5695 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5696
569772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5698 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5699 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5700 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5701 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5702
570373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5704 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5705 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5706 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5707 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5708 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5709
571074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5711 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5712 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5713
571475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5715
571676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5717 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5718 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5719 variables.
5720
572177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5722
572378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5724 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5725 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5726 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5727 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5728 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5729 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5730 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5731
573279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5733 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5734 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5735 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5736 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5737
573880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5739 Haardt.
5740
574181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5742 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5743 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5744 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5745 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5746 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5747 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5748 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5749 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5750
5751
5752Exim version 4.30
5753-----------------
5754
5755 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5756 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5757 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5758
5759 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5760 fixed.
5761
5762 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5763 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5764 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5765
5766 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5767 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5768 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5769 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5770 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5771 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5772
5773 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5774 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5775 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5776 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5777 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5778 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5779 the Exim test suite.
5780
5781 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5782 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5783 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5784 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5785
5786 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5787 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5788 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5789 specify it in this variable.
5790
5791 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5792 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5793 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5794 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5795
5796 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5797 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5798 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5799 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5800
5801 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5802 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5803 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5804 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5805 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5806
5807 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5808
580910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5810 they are logged.
5811
581211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5813 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5814 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5815 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5816 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5817
581812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5819 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5820
582113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5822 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5823 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5824 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5825 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5826
582714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5828 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5829
583015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5831 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5832 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5833
583416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5835 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5836
583717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5838 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5839
584018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5841 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5842 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5843
584419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5845 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5846
584720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5848 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5849 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5850 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5851
585221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5853
585422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5855 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5856 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5857 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5858
585923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5860
586124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5862 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5863
586425. Added .include_if_exists.
5865
586626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5867 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5868 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5869 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5870 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5871 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5872
587327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5874
587528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5876 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5877 this.
5878
587929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5880
588130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5882 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5883
5884 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5885 550 Sender verify failed
5886
5887 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5888 the final line of the response.
5889
589031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5891 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5892 all other user lookups.
5893
589432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5895 delivery time.
5896
589733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5898 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5899 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5900 result into an int without checking.
5901
590234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5903 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 5904 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
5905
590635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5907 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5908 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5909 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5910
591136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5912 correctly.
5913
591437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5915 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5916
591738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5918 to the empty sender.
5919
592039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5921 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5922 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5923 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5924 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5925 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5926 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5927 panic log.
5928
592940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5930 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5931 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5932 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5933 used.
5934
593541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5936 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5937
593842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5939 timestamps.
5940
594143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5942 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5943
594444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5945
594645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5947 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5948 logs.
5949
595046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5951 as soon as it is encountered.
5952
595347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5954
595548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5956 rewritten to "<>".
5957
595849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5959 recognizes a tab character.
5960
596150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5962 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5963 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5964 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5965
596651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5967
596852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5969 crash.
5970
597153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5972
597354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5974
597555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5976 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5977 2822.
5978
597956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5980 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5981 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5982 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5983 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5984
598557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5986 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5987
598858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5989 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5990 list (.included file names were always shown).
5991
599259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5993 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5994 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5995 root at that time.
5996
599760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5998 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5999
600061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6001
600262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6003
600463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6005
600664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6007 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6008 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6009 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6010 failures to open the logs.
6011
601265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6013 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6014 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6015 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6016 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6017 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6018 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6019
6020
6021Exim version 4.24
6022-----------------
6023
6024 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6025 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6026 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6027 change 4.23/1.
6028
6029 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6030 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6031 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6032
6033 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6034 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6035 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6036
6037 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6038 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6039 causing some misleading effects.
6040
6041 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6042 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6043 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6044
6045 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6046 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6047 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6048 queue-runner function directly.
6049
6050
6051Exim version 4.23
6052-----------------
6053
6054 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6055 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6056
6057 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6058 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6059 was always written to the default place.
6060
6061 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6062 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6063 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6064
6065 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6066
6067 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6068
6069 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6070 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6071 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6072
6073 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6074 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6075 must start.
6076
6077 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6078 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6079 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6080
6081 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6082 command line option is disabled.
6083
6084 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6085 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6086
6087 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6088
6089 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6090
6091 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6092 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6093
609410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6095
609611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6097 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6098 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6099 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6100 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6101 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6102
610312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6104 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6105 timeout.
6106
610713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6108 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6109
611014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6111 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6112
611315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6114 received was valid base64.
6115
611616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6117 name of the variable that was being set.
6118
611917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6120
612118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6122 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6123 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6124 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6125 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6126 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6127
612819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6129
613020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6131 nor realm was specified.
6132
613321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6134 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6135 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6136 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6137
613822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6139 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6140 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6141
614223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6143 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6144 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6145
614624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6147 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6148 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6149 some systems use these upper case variants.
6150
615125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6152 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6153 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6154 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6155
615626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6157
615827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6159 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6160
616128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6162 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6163 expansion variable.
6164
616529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6166
616730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6168 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6169 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6170 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6171
617231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6173 using it.
6174
617532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6176 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6177 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6178
617933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6180 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6181
618234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6183 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6184 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6185 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6186
618735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6188 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6189 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6190
619136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6192
619337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6194 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6195 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6196 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6197 aborted.
6198
619938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6200 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6201 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6202
620339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6204
620540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6206 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6207
620841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6209 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6210
621142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6212 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6213 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6214 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6215 when emails are that large.
6216
6217
6218
6219Exim version 4.22
6220-----------------
6221
6222 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6223 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6224
6225 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6226 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6227 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6228
6229 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6230 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6231 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6232
6233 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6234 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6235 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6236 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6237 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6238
6239 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6240 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6241 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6242 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6243 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6244 ever.
6245
6246 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6247 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6248 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6249 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6250 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6251 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6252 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6253 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6254 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6255 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6256 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6257 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6258 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6259 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6260
6261 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6262 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6263 parameterised it.
6264
6265 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6266 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6267 error should be diagnosed.
6268
6269 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6270 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6271 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6272 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6273 appeared instead of "NULL".
6274
627510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6276 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6277 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6278 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6279 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6280 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6281 proceeds).
6282
6283 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6284 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6285 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6286
6287
6288Exim version 4.21
6289-----------------
6290
6291 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6292 or receiver verification errors.
6293
6294 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6295 name.
6296
6297 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6298 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6299 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6300 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6301
6302 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6303 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6304 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6305 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6306 shouldn't happen again.
6307
6308 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6309 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6310 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6311
6312 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6313 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6314
6315 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6316
6317 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6318 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6319
6320 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6321 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6322 RFC.
6323
632410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6325 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6326 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6327
632811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6329 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6330 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6331 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6332
633312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6334 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6335 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6336 to define what should happen).
6337
633813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6339 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6340 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6341
634214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6343
634415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6345
634616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6347 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6348
4c04137d 634917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6350 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6351 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6352 structure in all cases.
6353
6354 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6355 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6356 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6357 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6358
635918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6360 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6361 domain name.
6362
636319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6364 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6365
636620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6367 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6368
636921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6370 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6371 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6372
637322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6374 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6375 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6376
637723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6378 the book and for uniformity.
6379
638024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6381
638225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6383 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6384 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6385 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6386 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6387 non-existent command as the problem.
6388
638926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6390 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6391 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6392
639327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6394
639528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6396 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6397 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6398
639929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6400 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6401 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6402 timestamps using strftime().
6403
640430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6405 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6406
640732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6408 transport-time rewrites.
6409
641033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6411 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6412 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6413 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6414
641534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6416 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6417
641835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6419 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6420 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6421 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6422 comma and a space.
6423
642436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6425 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6426 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6427 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6428 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6429 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6430 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6431
643237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6433 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6434 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6435 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6436 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6437
643838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6439 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6440 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6441 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6442 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6443 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6444 remaining text gets split now.
6445
644639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6447 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6448 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6449 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6450
645140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6452 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6453 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6454 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6455 $return_path.
6456
645741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6458 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6459 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6460 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6461 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6462 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6463 passed through if needed.
6464
646542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6466 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6467 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6468 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6469 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6470 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6471
647243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6473 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6474 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6475 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6476 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6477
647844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6479 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6480 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6481 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6482 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6483
648445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6485 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6486 noticed.
6487
648846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6489 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6490 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6491 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6492 mayhem of various kinds.
6493
649447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6495 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6496 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6497 the right test for positive values.
6498
649948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6500 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6501 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6502 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6503 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6504 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6505 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6506 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6507 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6508 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6509 envelope.
6510
651149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6512 module.
6513
651450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6515 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6516 forbidding it.
6517
651851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6519 the existing equality matching.
6520
652152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6522 dealing with inode numbers.
6523
652453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6525 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6526 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6527
652854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6529 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6530 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6531 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6532 local_scan().
6533
653455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6535 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6536 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6537 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6538 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6539 relay addresses has also been removed.
6540
654156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6542
654357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6544 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6545 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6546
654758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6548 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6549 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6550 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6551 processing applies to CR:
6552
6553 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6554 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6555
6556 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6557 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6558 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6559 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6560
656159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6562 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6563 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6564
656560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6566 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6567 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6568 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6569 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6570 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6571 arisen.
6572
657361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6574 program routers.
6575
657662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6577 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6578 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6579 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6580 adds:
6581
6582 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6583
6584 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6585
6586 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6587
658863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6589 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6590 not considered personal.
6591
659264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6593
659465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6595
659666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6597
659867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6599 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6600 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6601 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6602 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6603 header lines, and spool format errors.
6604
660568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6606 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6607 for more flexibility.
6608
660969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6610 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6611 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6612
661370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6614 Sabourenkov.
6615
661671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6617 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6618 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6619 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6620 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6621 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6622 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6623 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6624 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6625
662672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6627 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6628 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6629 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6630 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6631 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6632 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6633
663473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6635 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6636 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6637
663874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6639 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6640 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6641 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6642 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6643 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6644 instead of killing the process with assert().
6645
664675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6647 than Unicode encoding.
6648
664976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6650 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6651 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6652 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6653
665477. Added process_log_path.
6655
665678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6657 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6658
665979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6660 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6661
666280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6663 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6664 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6665
666681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6667 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6668 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6669 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6670 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6671 were applied:
6672
6673 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6674 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6675 as invalid.
6676
667782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6678 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6679 they will be used during message reception.
6680
6681
6682Exim version 4.20
6683-----------------
6684
6685The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6686
6687****