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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.75
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4c9ef03a 9NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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10 Bugzilla 1073
11
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12TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
13 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
14 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
15
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16TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
17 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
18
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19PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
20 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
21 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
22
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23PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
24 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
25
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26PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
27 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
28
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29NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
30 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
31
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32NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
33 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
34
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35PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
36 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 37
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38NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
39 Fixes bug 943.
40
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41PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
42 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
43
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44PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
45 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
46
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47PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
48 SQL string expansion failure details.
49 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
50
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51PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
52 Patch from Simon Arlott.
53
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54PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
55 extern declarations in function scope.
56 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
57
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58PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
59 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
60 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
61 a kernel bug).
62
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63PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
64 Patch from Mark Zealey.
65
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66PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
67 Patch from Mark Zealey.
68
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69PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
70 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
71
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72PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
73 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
74
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75NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
76 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
77 Dennis Davis.
78
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79PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
80
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82Exim version 4.74
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84
85TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
86 consequences so log it to the panic log.
87
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88TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
89 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
90
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91TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
92
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93DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
94 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
95 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
96
97PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
98 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
99 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
100
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101PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
102 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
103 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
104 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
105
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106PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
107 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
108 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
109 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
110
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111PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
112 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
113 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
114 arbitrary files.
115
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116PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
117 (Wolfgang Breyha)
118
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119PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
120 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
121 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
122 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
123 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
124
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129PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
130 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
131 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
132
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133PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
134 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
135
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136JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
137
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138PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
139
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140PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
141
ec5a0394 142PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 143
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144PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
145
453a6645 146PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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147 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
148 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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149 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
150
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151PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
152 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
153 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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154 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
155 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 156
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157PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
158
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159PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
160
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161PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
162
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163PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
164
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165PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
166
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167PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
168
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169PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
170
6a8de854 171PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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172 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
173 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 174
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175JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
176
177JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
178 "exim" to be used
55c75993 179
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180PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
181 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
182
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183PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
184 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
185 Notification from John Horne.
186
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187PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
188 compatible.
189
190PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
191 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
192 it normally works.
193
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194DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
195 access.
196
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197DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
198 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
199 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
200
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201DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
202 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
203 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
204 configuration file.
205
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206DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
207 option (effectively making it always true).
208
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209DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
210 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
211
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212DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
213 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
214
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215PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
216 run-time user, instead of root.
217
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218PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
219 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
220
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221DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
222 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
223 arguments.
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225DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
226 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
227 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
228
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229DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
230
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231NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
232
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234Exim version 4.72
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236
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237JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
238 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
239 typos
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241JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
242 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
243 (Finput)
edae0343 244
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245NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
246 Patch from Alain Williams
247
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248NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
249
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250NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
251 Patch from Andreas Metzler
252
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253NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
254 Patch from Kirill Miazine
255
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256NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
257
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258JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
259
a466095c 260NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 261 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 262
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263TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
264
265TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
266
267MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
268 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
269 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
270
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271NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
272 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 273
b26eacf1 274NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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275 Patch by Simon Arlott
276
179c5980 277PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 278 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 279
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281Exim version 4.71
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7d9f747b 284TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 285
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286NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
287
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288NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
289
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290NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
291
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292NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
293
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295Exim version 4.70
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297
cdd3bb85 298TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 299 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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301TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
302 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 303 Hirsch).
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305TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
306 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 307 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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309TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
310 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
311
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312NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
313 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
314 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
315 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
316
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317NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
318 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 319 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 320
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321TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
322
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323TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
324
dae9d94e 325NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 326 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 327
7d9f747b 328NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 329
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330TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
331 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
332 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
333 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
334
65a7d8c3 335NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 336 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 337
23510047 338TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 339
7d9f747b 340NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 341
7d8eec3a 342NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 343 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 344
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345TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
346 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 347
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348TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
349 that they are available at delivery time.
350
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351TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
352
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353TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
354 incoming_port log selectors.
355
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356TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
357 setting expands to an empty string.
358
ce552449 359NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 360 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 361
e765a0f1 362NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 363 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 364
4f054c63 365NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 366 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 367
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368NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
369 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 370
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371NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
372 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 373
b52bc06e 374NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 375 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 376
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377NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
378
4c69d561 379NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 380 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 381
d5c39246 382NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 383 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 384
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385TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
386
8f3414a1 387NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 388 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 389
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390NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
391
392NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 393
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394NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
395 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 396
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397NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
398 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 399
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400NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
401 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 402
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403NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
404 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 405
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406NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
407 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 408
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409NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
410 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 411
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412NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
413 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 414
7d9f747b 415NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 416 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 417
7d9f747b 418NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 419
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420NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
421 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 422
7d9f747b 423NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 424
7d9f747b 425NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 426
7d9f747b 427NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 428
7d9f747b 429NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 430
17792b53 431NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 432 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 433
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434NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
435 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 436
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437NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
438 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 439
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440NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
441 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 442
7d9f747b 443NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 444
7d9f747b 445NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 446
7d9f747b 447NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 448
7d9f747b 449NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 450
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452Exim version 4.69
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455TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
456 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
457 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
458
459 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
460 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
461 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
462 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
463 build errors in sieve.c.
464
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465NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
466 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
467 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
468
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469SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
470
7d9f747b 471NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 472
7d9f747b 473NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 474
7d9f747b 475NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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480
481PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
482
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483PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
484 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
485 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
486 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
487 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
488 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
489 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
490 for iplsearch lookups.
491
492 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
493 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
494 previously such lookups could never work.
495
496 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
497 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
498 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
499
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500TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
501 version.
502
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503MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
504 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
505 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
506 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
507 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
508 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
509
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510TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
511 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
512
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513MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
514 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
515 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
516 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
517 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
518 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
519
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520PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
521 local_scan API.
522
93655c46
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523PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
524
6c512171
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525PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
526 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
527 encrypted.
528
529PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
530 by clients under certain conditions.
531
aa6dc513
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532PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
533 "_responses" off the end of the name.
534
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535PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
536
8f240103
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537PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
538 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
539
540PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
541
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542PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
543
d52120f2
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544PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
545
64f2600a
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546PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
547 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
548
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549PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
550
a4dc33a8
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551PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
552 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
553
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554PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
555
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556PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
557
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558PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
559 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
560 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
561 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 562
ddea74fa 563PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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564 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
565 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
566
ddea74fa 567PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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568 and InterBase are left for another time.)
569
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570PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
571
ce9f225c
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572PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
573
19897d52
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574PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
575
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576PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
577 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
578 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
579
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581Exim version 4.67
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583
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584MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
585 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
586 Jan Srzednicki.
587
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588PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
589 issue a MAIL command.
590
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591PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
592
593 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
594
595 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
596 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
597 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
598 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
599 item. This has been fixed.
600
601PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
602 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
603
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604PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
605 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
606
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607PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
608 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
609 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
610
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611SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
612
bbe15da8
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613PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
614 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
615 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
616 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
617 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
618
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619MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
620 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
621 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
622
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623PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
624 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
625 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
626 the server_setid option was incorrect.
627
b01dd148
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628PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
629
6bf342e1
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630PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
631
273f34d0
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632PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
633 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
634 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
635 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
636 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
637
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638PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
639
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640PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
641 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
642 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
643 values).
644
9c57cbc0
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645PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
646
f3f065bb
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647PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
648
047bdd8c
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649PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
650
0ce9abe6
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651PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
652
0e22dfd1
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653PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
654
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655PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
656 no_callout_flush is set.
657
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658PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
659 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
660 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
661 fixed.
662
c51b8e75
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663PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
664
e28326d8
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665PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
666 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
667 other ACL rejections are.
668
75b1493f
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669PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
670 with slight modification.
671
7c5214ec
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672PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
673 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
674
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675PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
676 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
677 connection.
678
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679PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
680 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
681
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682SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
683
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684PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
685 expansion side effects.
686
5a11a7b4
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687PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
688 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
689 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
690 be the same.
691
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692MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
693 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
694 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
695
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696PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
697 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
698 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
699 were accidentally chopped off.
700
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701PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
702 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
703 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
704 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
705 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
706 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
707 pipelining has not been advertised.
708
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709PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
710
42855d71
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711PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
712 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
713 This has been fixed.
714
57c2c631
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715PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
716 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
717 reported on Solaris.
718
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719PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
720 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
721 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
722 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
723 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
724 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
725 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
726
dee5a20a
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727PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
728 cpus.
729
d2ee6114
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730PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
731
b2d5182b
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732PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
733
79749a79
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734PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
735 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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736 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
737 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
738 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
739 criteria to be more general.
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741PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
742 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
743 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
744 host_all_ignored option.
745
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746PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
747 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
748 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
749 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
750 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
751 is what is supposed to happen).
752
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753PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
754 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
755 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
756 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
757 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
758 uses the Exim user.
759
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760PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
761 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
762 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
763 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
764 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
765 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
766 users.
767
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768PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
769
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770SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
771 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
772 (Jez Hancock).
773 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
774 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
775
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776SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
777
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778PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
779
58eb016e 780PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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781 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
782 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
783 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
784 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
785 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
786 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
787 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 788 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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789 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
790 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 791
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792PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
793 advertised in response to EHLO.
794
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796Exim version 4.66
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798
799PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
800 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
801
802 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
803 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
804
805 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
806 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
807 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
808
809 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
810 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
811 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
812 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
813 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
814
815
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818
819TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
820 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
821 versions. (#438)
822
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823MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
824 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
825 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
826
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827PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
828 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
829 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
830 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
831 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
832 rather than extend the field.
833
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838TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
839 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
840 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
841 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
842 these files.
843
844TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
845 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
846 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
847
848TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
849 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
850 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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851
852TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
853 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
854 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
855 in the field name.
856
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857PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
858 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
859 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
860 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
861 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
862 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
863 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
864 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
865 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
866 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
867 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
868
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869PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
870 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
871
872PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
873 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
874 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
875 ignores EPIPE as well.
876
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877PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
878 (quoted-printable decoding).
879
cc2ed8f7 880PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 881 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 882
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883PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
884
d45b1de8
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885PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
886
887PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
888
38a0a95f 889PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 890 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 891
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892JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
893 in 4.64-PH/09.
894
895JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
896 miscellaneous code fixes
897
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898PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
899 rejections.
900
26da7e20
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901PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
902 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
903 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
904 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
905 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
906 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
907 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
908 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 909
14aa5a05 910PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 911 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
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912 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
913 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
914 function.
915 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
916 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
917 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
918 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
919 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
920 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
921 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
922 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
923 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
924
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925PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
926 decoding.
927
e6f6568e
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928PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
929 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
930 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
931 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
932 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
933 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
934 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
935 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
936
d6f6e0dc
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937PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
938 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
939 list.
940
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941PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
942 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
943 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
944 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
945 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
946 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
947 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
948 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
949 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
950 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
951 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
952 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
953 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
954
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955PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
956 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
957 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
958 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
959 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
960 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
961 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
962
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963PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
964 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
965 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
966 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
967 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
968 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
969 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
970 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
971 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
972 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
973
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974PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
975 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
976 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
977 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
978 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
979
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980PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
981 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
982 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
983 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
984 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
985 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
986 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
987
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988PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
989 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
990 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
991 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
992 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
993 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
994 been verified.
995
48da4259 996PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
997 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
998 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
999 and authorization.)
1000
48da4259
PH
1001PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1002 if any retry times were supplied.
1003
d1d5595c
PH
1004PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1005 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1006 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1007
0ef732d9
PH
1008PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1009
328895cc
PH
1010PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1011
fd700877
PH
1012PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1013 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1014 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1015 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1016 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1017 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1018
8dce1a6f
PH
1019PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1020 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1021
17af4a17
PH
1022PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1023 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1024 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1025
1026PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1027 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1028 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1029 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1030 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1031 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1032 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1033 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1034 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1035
1036 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1037 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1038 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1039 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1040 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1041 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1042 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1043 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1044 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1045
1046 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1047 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1048 hammering the server.
1049
c1114884
PH
1050PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1051 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1052
7a0743eb
PH
1053PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1054
0d85fa3f
PH
1055PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1056 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1057 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1058
1bf43b78
PH
1059PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1060 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1061 one case where this was not true.
1062
520de300
PH
1063PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1064 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1065 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1066 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1067 fails.
1068
48c7f9e2
PH
1069PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1070 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1071 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1072 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1073 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1074 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1075 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1076 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1077 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1078 smtp transport.
1079
99ea1c86
PH
1080PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1081 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1082 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1083 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1084
a2042e78
PH
1085PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1086 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1087
4fbcfc2e
PH
1088PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1089 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1090 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1091
aa41d2de
PH
1092PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1093
af561417
PH
1094PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1095
3cc66b45
PH
1096PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1097
194cc0e4
PH
1098PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1099 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1100 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1101 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1102
a401ddaa
PH
1103PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1104 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1105
4e88a19f
PH
1106PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1107 be meaningful with "accept".
1108
d7d7b289
SC
1109SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1110 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1111
1112SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1113 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1114 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1115
1116SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1117 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1118 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1119 there is data to show.
1120 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1121
1122SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1123 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1124 as well as the number of messages.
1125
1126SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1127 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1128 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1129
1130SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1131 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1132 have a flag are now skipped.
1133
1134SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1135 Added the -emptyok flag.
1136
1137SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1138 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1139
0ea2a468
JJ
1140JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1141 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1142 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1143
1144JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1145 match 4.64-PH/13
1146
1147JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1148 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1149
1150JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1151
1152JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1153 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1154
8a10f5a4
PH
1155PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1156
30e18802
PH
1157PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1158 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1159 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1160 contravention of the specifications.
1161
55728a4f
PH
1162PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1163 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1164 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1165
d7837193
PH
1166PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1167 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1168 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1169
87054a31
PH
1170PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1171
ea2c01d2
MH
1172MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1173 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1174 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1175 some point in the past.
1176
e4fa6968
PH
1177PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1178 transport during callout processing was broken.
1179
56f5d9bd
PH
1180PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1181 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1182
922e1c28
PH
1183PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1184 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1185
21eb6e72
PH
1186PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1187 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1188
a0540757
PH
1189PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1190
944e9e9c 1191
478be7b0
SC
1192Exim version 4.63
1193-----------------
1194
1195SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1196 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1197
1198SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1199 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1200 there is data to show.
1201 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1202
1203SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1204 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1205
2b965a65
TF
1206TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1207 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1208
45b91596
PH
1209TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1210 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1211
c59f5781
TF
1212TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1213 submissions from trusted users.
1214
90fc3069
TF
1215TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1216 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1217
6083aca0
TF
1218TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1219 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1220 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1221 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1222 there is now a framework to start from.
1223
765b530f
PH
1224PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1225 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1226 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1227
4e167a8c
PH
1228PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1229
4608d683
PH
1230PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1231
b8dc3e4a
PH
1232PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1233
5418e93b
PH
1234PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1235 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1236 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1237
b4a9bda2
PH
1238PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1239 libradius.
1240
45b91596
PH
1241PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1242 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1243 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1244
5547e2c5
PH
1245PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1246 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1247 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1248 its arguments.
1249
dbcef0ea
PH
1250PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1251 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1252 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1253 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1254 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1255
25257489
PH
1256PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1257 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1258
c816d124
PH
1259PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1260
a9ccd69a
PH
1261PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1262 operations in malware.c.
1263
75fa1910
PH
1264PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1265 signatures.
1266
a7d7aa58
PH
1267PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1268 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1269 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1270 all.
1271
42119b09
PH
1272PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1273 statements to "add_header".
1274
41609df5
PH
1275PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1276 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1277
a5bd321b
PH
1278PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1279 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1280 latter.
1281
e85a7ad5 1282PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1283 so that it is now:
1284
e85a7ad5
PH
1285 ${if or { \
1286 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1287 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1288 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1289 }{no}{yes}}
1290
e85a7ad5
PH
1291 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1292 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1293
d8fe1c03
PH
1294PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1295 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1296
16282d2b
PH
1297PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1298 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1299 any possible encoding problems.
1300
35d40a98
PH
1301PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1302 but not after initializing Perl.
1303
034d99ab
PH
1304PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1305 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1306 apparently, which is not desirable.
1307
6ec97b1b
PH
1308PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1309 queries.
1310
e22ca4ac
JJ
1311JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1312 --not options
1313
1314JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1315
33d73e3b
PH
1316PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1317 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1318 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1319 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1320
9ecb03f3
PH
1321PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1322 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1323 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1324
084efe8d
PH
1325PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1326 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1327 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1328 0.12.
1329
366fc9f0
PH
1330PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1331 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1332 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1333 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1334 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1335
c59f5781 1336
c887c79e
TF
1337Exim version 4.62
1338-----------------
1339
1340TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1341 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1342
1cce3af8
PH
1343PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1344 patch).
1345
afb3eaaf
PH
1346PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1347 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1348 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1349 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1350 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1351 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1352 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1353 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1354 451 error is used.
1355
e173618b
PH
1356PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1357
dd16e114
PH
1358PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1359 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1360 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1361
f7fd3850
PH
1362PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1363 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1364 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1365 odd errors.
1366
d87df92c
PH
1367PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1368 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1369
7e9f683d
PH
1370PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1371 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1372 option (which defaults to 0600).
1373
bfad5236
PH
1374PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1375
01c490df
PH
1376PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1377 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1378 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1379 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1380 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1381 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1382 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1383
d6629cdc
PH
1384PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1385
1cce3af8 1386
214e2000
PH
1387Exim version 4.61
1388-----------------
1389
1390PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1391 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1392 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1393 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1394 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1395 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1396 addresses as local.
1397
f9daeae0
PH
1398PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1399 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1400
7e66e54d
PH
1401PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1402
c8ea1597
PH
1403PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1404 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1405 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1406 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1407 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1408 grumble.
1409
911f6fde
PH
1410PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1411 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1412
47ca6d6c
PH
1413PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1414 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1415 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1416 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1417 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1418
ed0e9820
PH
1419PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1420 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1421 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1422 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1423
eff37e47
PH
1424PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1425 be the same on different OS.
1426
1921d2ea
PH
1427PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1428 testing.
1429
b3f69ca8
JJ
1430JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1431 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1432
1433JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1434 in 4.61-PH/06
1435
424a1c63
PH
1436PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1437 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1438 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1439 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1440 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1441 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1442 bounce message.
1443
7a100415
PH
1444PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1445 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1446 when Exim was called.
1447
19b9dc85
PH
1448PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1449 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1450
309bd837
PH
1451PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1452 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1453 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1454 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1455
59e82a2a
PH
1456PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1457 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1458 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1459 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1460 changes:
1461
1462 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1463 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1464 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1465
1466 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1467 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1468 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1469
9edc04ce
PH
1470PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1471 feature).
1472
1349e1e5
PH
1473PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1474 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1475 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1476 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1477 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1478 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1479 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1480 values from the SRV records were lost.
1481
ea49d0e1
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1482PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1483 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1484 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1485
064a94c9
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1486PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1487 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1488 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1489
727071f8
PH
1490PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1491 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1492 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1493 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1494 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1495 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1496 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1497 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1498 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1499 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1500
f78eb7c6
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1501PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1502 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1503 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1504
21c28500
PH
1505PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1506 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1507
1508PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1509 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1510 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1511 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1512 is given.
1513
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1514PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1515 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1516 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1517
1518PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1519 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1520 PH/23 above applies.
1521
9675b384
PH
1522PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1523 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1524 (for which there is an explicit test).
1525
6a3f1455
PH
1526PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1527
dac79d3e
PH
1528PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1529 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1530 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1531 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1532 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1533
5977a0b3
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1534PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1535 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1536 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1537 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1538
c91535f3
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1539PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1540 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1541 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1542
0d46a8c8
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1543PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1544
278c6e6c
PH
1545PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1546
2cbb4081
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1547PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1548 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1549 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1550
3eef829e
PH
1551PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1552 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1553 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1554 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1555 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1556
1ab95fa6
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1557PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1558 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1559 the message gets confusing).
1560
230205fc
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1561PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1562 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1563 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1564 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1565
75e0e026
PH
1566PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1567 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1568 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1569 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1570 same order.
1571
1572PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1573 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1574 the different processes.
1575
145396a6
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1576PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1577
3cd34f13
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1578PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1579
11121d3d
JJ
1580JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1581 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1582
1583JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1584 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1585
1586JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1587 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1588 messages matching specified criteria.
1589
8def5aaf
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1590PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1591
929ba01c
PH
1592PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1593 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1594
2632889e
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1595PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1596 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1597 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1598 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1599 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1600 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1601 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1602 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1603 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1604 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1605
944a9c55
PH
1606PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1607 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1608 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1609
4a23603b
PH
1610PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1611
4730f942
PH
1612PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1613 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1614 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1615 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1616 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1617 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1618 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1619 the variable.
1620
30dba1e6
PH
1621PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1622 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1623
382afc6b
PH
1624PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1625
a86229cf
PH
1626PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1627
50c99ba6
PH
1628PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1629
d35e429d
PH
1630PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1631 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1632 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1633 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1634 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1635 size of the count of files.
1636
f90d018c
PH
1637PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1638
75def545
PH
1639PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1640 used in LMTP mode:
1641
1642 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1643 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1644 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1645 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1646
1647 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1648 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1649 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1650
1651PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1652 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1653 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1654 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1655 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1656
c46782ef
PH
1657PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1658 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1659
71fafd95
PH
1660PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1661 will now be deprecated.
1662
2c5db4fd
PH
1663PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1664
9cf6b11a
JJ
1665JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1666 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1667 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1668
1669JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1670 with very large, slow to parse queues
1671
1672JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1673
1674JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1675
898d150f
PH
1676PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1677 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1678 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1679 SMTP output lines.
1680
46218253
PH
1681PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1682 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1683 Sieve code now uses this.
1684
e97957bc
PH
1685PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1686 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1687
81e509d7
PH
1688PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1689 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1690
3d240ff7
PH
1691PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1692
b37c4101
PH
1693PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1694 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1695 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1696 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1697 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1698
79378e0f
PH
1699PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1700 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1701 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1702 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1703
e49c7bb4
PH
1704PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1705
d114ec46
PH
1706PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1707
f3d7df6c
PH
1708PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1709 is preferred over IPv4.
1710
715ab376
PH
1711PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1712 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1713 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1714 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1715 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1716 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1717 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1718
6b31b150
PH
1719PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1720 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1721 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1722
1723PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1724
d515a917
PH
1725PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1726 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1727 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1728 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1729 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1730 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1731 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1732 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1733 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1734 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1735 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1736
9b8fadde
PH
1737PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1738 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1739 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1740
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1742Exim version 4.60
1743-----------------
1744
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PH
1745PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1746
1747 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1748 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1749
1750 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1751 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1752 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1753
72fdd6ae
PH
1754PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1755
1756 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1757 not a single digit.
1758
1759 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1760 string.
1761
1762 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1763 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1764 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1765 silly things.
1766
1767 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1768 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1769
1770 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1771 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1772
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PH
1773PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1774 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1775 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1776
f174f16e
PH
1777PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1778 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1779
c25242d7
PH
1780PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1781 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1782
1783 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1784
1785 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1786 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1787 this:
1788
1789 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1790
82c19f95
PH
1791PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1792 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1793 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1794 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1795 identical. For example:
1796
1797 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1798
1799 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1800 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1801 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1802
d7ffbc12
PH
1803PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1804 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1805 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1806 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1807
9f526266
PH
1808PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1809 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1810 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1811 message.
1812
87fcc8b9
PH
1813PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1814
1815 o fixes some comments
1816 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1817 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1818 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1819 and documents the missing references header update
1820
1821 and most important:
1822
1823 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1824 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1825 result)
1826
456682f5
PH
1827PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1828 Electronic Mail") by including:
1829
1830 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1831
1832 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1833 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1834 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1835 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1836 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1837
1838 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1839
1840 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1841
1842 The auto-replied keyword:
1843
1844 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1845 message by an automatic process,
1846
1847 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1848
1849 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1850 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1851
1852 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1853 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1854 other messages.
1855
3e46c1aa
PH
1856PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1857 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1858
49826d12
PH
1859PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1860
eba0c039
PH
1861PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1862 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1863 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1864
a0d6ba8a
PH
1865PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1866 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1867 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1868
f0917727
PH
1869PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1870 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1871 and treats the condition as false.
1872
096fee00
PH
1873PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1874
024bd3c2
PH
1875PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1876 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1877 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1878 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1879 not changing the active code.
1880
1881 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1882 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1883
1884 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1885 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1886
df199fec
PH
1887PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1888 (Bugzilla #53).
1889
d27f1df3
PH
1890PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1891 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1892 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1893 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1894 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1895 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1896 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1897 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1898 the text comparison.
1899
96776534
PH
1900PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1901 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1902 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1903 The same fix has been applied.
1904
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1906Exim version 4.54
1907-----------------
1908
1909PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1910 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1911 It now does.
1912
99a4b039
PH
1913PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1914 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1915
1916PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1917
4b233853
PH
1918PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1919 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1920 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1921 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1922 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1923
8857ccfd
PH
1924TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1925 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1926 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1927 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1928 or /domain=).
1929
433a2980
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1930PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1931 testing suite.
1932
3e46c1aa 1933
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1935Exim version 4.53
1936-----------------
1937
1938TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1939 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1940
13b685f9
PH
1941PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1942
395ff96d
PH
1943PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1944
5b68f6e4
PH
1945PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1946 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1947 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1948
1ab52c69
PH
1949PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1950 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1951 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1952
b07e6aa3
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1953PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1954 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1955 operating systems.
1956
254e032f
PH
1957PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1958 ${stat: expansion item.
1959
3af76a81
PH
1960PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1961 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1962
2548ba04
PH
1963PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1964 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1965 file for comments.
1966
b6c6011d
PH
1967PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1968
cf39cf57
PH
1969PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1970 setting.
1971
f1513293
PH
1972PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1973 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1974
727549a4
PH
1975TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1976
af46795e
PH
1977PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1978 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1979 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1980 the end of the subprocess.
1981
d7b47fd0
PH
1982PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1983 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1984 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1985 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1986 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1987
ee744174
JJ
1988JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1989
b582ab87
PH
1990TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1991
41a13e0a
PH
1992PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1993 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1994
f625cc5a
PH
1995PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1996
1997PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1998
21f7af35
PH
1999PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2000 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2001 HP-UX compiler.
2002
31480e42
PH
2003PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2004
2d280592
PH
2005PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2006 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2007 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2008
7cd1141b
PH
2009PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2010 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2011
2012PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2013 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2014
750af86e
PH
2015PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2016 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2017
2018 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2019 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2020
2021 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2022 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2023 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2024 contributed by a Radius user.
2025
2026PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2027 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2028
4304270b
TK
2029TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2030 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2031
750af86e
PH
2032PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2033 available.
2034
64ffc24f
PH
2035PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2036 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2037 received.
2038
5dd9625b
PH
2039PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2040 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2041 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2042 header lines when this was not necessary.
2043
5591031b
PH
2044PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2045
ba18e66a
PH
2046PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2047 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2048 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2049 exists".
2050
9cec981f
PH
2051PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2052 -bV or -d is used.
2053
aa2b5c79
PH
2054PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2055 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2056 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2057 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2058
48a53b7f
PH
2059PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2060
1c59d63b
PH
2061PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2062
671012da
TK
2063TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2064
1509d3a8
PH
2065PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2066
2067PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2068 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2069 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2070 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2071 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2072 settings.
2073
2074PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2075
2fe1a124
PH
2076PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2077 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2078 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2079 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2080 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2081 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2082 which is clearly wrong.
2083
8800895a
PH
2084PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2085
ccfdb010
PH
2086PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2087 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2088 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2089 subsequently added.
2090
1130bfb0
PH
2091PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2092 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2093
ebcb507f
PH
2094PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2095
c35e155c
PH
2096PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2097 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2098
95d1f782
PH
2099PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2100 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2101
fd6de02e
PH
2102PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2103 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2104
58de37c5
PH
2105PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2106 recipients, not senders.
2107
261cf466
TF
2108TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2109 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2110
3ee512ff
PH
2111PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2112
e08c430f
PH
2113PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2114
bef5a11f
PH
2115PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2116 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2117 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2118 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2119
7546de58
TF
2120TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2121
e5d5a95f
TF
2122TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2123 clock is set back in time.
2124
2e88a017
TF
2125TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2126 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2127
a5f65aa4
TF
2128TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2129 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2130
e7726cbf
PH
2131PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2132 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2133 (see PH/47 above).
2134
a7fdad5b
TF
2135TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2136 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2137 header rewrites.
2138
6af56900
PH
2139PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2140 type ("H").
2141
0925ede6
PH
2142PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2143
66afa403
TF
2144TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2145 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2146 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2147
0154e85a
TF
2148TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2149 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2150 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2151 helo verification defer as a failure.
2152
16f12c76
PH
2153PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2154 actual error message.
2155
bbe902f0 2156
e5a9dba6
PH
2157Exim version 4.52
2158-----------------
2159
2160TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2161
22c3b60b
PH
2162PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2163 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2164 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2165 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2166
06a9b4b5
PH
2167TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2168
c1ac6996
PH
2169PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2170 can still be requested.
2171
9c7a242c
PH
2172PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2173 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2174 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2175 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2176
87ba3f5f
PH
2177TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2178 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2179 circumstances, but probably never did.
2180
2181PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2182 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2183 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2184 in the header line.
2185
29aba418
TF
2186TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2187
fe0dab11
TF
2188TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2189 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2190
11d337a4
TK
2191TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2192
2193TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2194
415c8f3b
PH
2195PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2196 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2197 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2198 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2199 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2200 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2201
958541e9
PH
2202PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2203 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2204 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2205 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2206 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2207 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2208
c206415f
TK
2209TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2210 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2211
2a4be8f9
PH
2212PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2213 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2214
1cba11c5
SC
2215SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2216 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2217
2218SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2219
2220SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2221
2222SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2223
2224SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2225
2226SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2227
2228SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2229
1005d00e
TK
2230TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2231
2232TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2233 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2234 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2235
2236TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2237 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2238 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2239 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2240
9b4768fa
PH
2241PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2242 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2243 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2244
2245PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2246 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2247 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2248 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2249
0d7eb84a
PH
2250PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2251 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2252 to be made).
2253
2254PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2255 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2256 should work with maildirs and everything.
2257
40727bee
TK
2258TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2259 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2260
554d2369
TF
2261TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2262 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2263
1f922db1
PH
2264PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2265 function for BDB 4.3.
2266
ef213c3b
PH
2267PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2268
8ac170f3
PH
2269PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2270 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2271 involved.
2272
b1c749bb
PH
2273PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2274 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2275 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2276 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2277 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2278 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2279
4aac9b49
PH
2280PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2281 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2282 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2283 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2284 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2285 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2286 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2287 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2288
294520c8
TK
2289TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2290 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2291 details.
2292
5bd022fe
PH
2293PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2294 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2295
90e9ce59
PH
2296PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2297 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2298 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2299 test. It is now used for both.
2300
5ea81592
PH
2301PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2302 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2303 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2304 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2305 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2306 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2307
c6c2dc1d
PH
2308PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2309 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2310 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2311 string_vformat().
2312
fffffe4c
PH
2313PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2314 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2315 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2316
9a26b6b2
PH
2317PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2318 experimental DomainKeys support:
2319
2320 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2321 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2322 the control was given.
2323
2324 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2325
4aee0225
PH
2326PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2327
32d668a5
PH
2328PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2329
8187c3f3
PH
2330PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2331 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2332 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2333 db.h files).
2334
ff790e47 2335PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2336 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2337 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2338 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2339 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2340 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2341 course.
ff790e47 2342
5417f6d1
PH
2343PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2344 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2345 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2346 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2347 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2348 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2349
59cf8544
PH
2350PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2351 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2352 do -d+all out of habit.
2353
e7ad8a65
PH
2354PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2355 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2356 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2357
ade42478
PH
2358PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2359 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2360 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2361 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2362 record types that Exim uses.
2363
182ad5cf
PH
2364PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2365 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2366 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2367 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2368 non-existent file that was broken.
2369
b0d9fc80
TK
2370TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2371 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2372
2373TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2374 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2375 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2376
2377TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2378
47c7a64a
PH
2379PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2380 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2381 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2382 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2383 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2384 same time.
2385
a388bce4
SC
2386SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2387 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2388 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2389 at a slight CPU cost.
2390
2391SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2392 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2393
2394SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2395 by Marc Sherman.
2396
0793e4ed
SC
2397SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2398
c58b88df
PH
2399PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2400 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2401
e7ad8a65 2402
7982096b
PH
2403Exim version 4.51
2404-----------------
2405
1a46a8c5
PH
2406TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2407 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2408
2f079f46 2409TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2410
2411TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2412
2413PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2414 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2415
2416PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2417 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2418 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2419 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2420 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2421 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2422 file.
2423
2424PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2425 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2426 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2427 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2428 these two options.
2429
2430PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2431 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2432 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2433 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2434 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2435 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2436 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2437 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2438
2439PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2440 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2441
2442PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2443 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2444 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2445 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2446 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2447 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2448
2449PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2450 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2451 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2452 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2453
2454PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2455 Finch).
2456
2457PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2458 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2459
49c2d5ea
PH
2460PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2461 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2462 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2463 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2464 message.
49c2d5ea 2465
bf759a8b
PH
2466PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2467
83364d30
PH
2468PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2469 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2470
7999bbd7
PH
2471PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2472 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2473 to what was transported.)
2474
7dbf77c9
PH
2475TF/01 Added $received_time.
2476
74e0617f
PH
2477PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2478 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2479 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2480 spamd_address settings.
2481
2f079f46
PH
2482PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2483 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2484 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2485 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2486 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2487
8c841523
PH
2488PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2489
7766a4f0
PH
2490PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2491 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2492 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2493 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2494 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2495
8b417f2c
PH
2496PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2497 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2498
901f42cb
PH
2499PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2500 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2501 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2502 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2503 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2504 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2505 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2506 for failure.
2507
f9b9210e
PH
2508PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2509 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2510 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2511 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2512 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2513 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2514 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2515 "input=".
2516
54cdb463
PH
2517PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2518
cf00dad6
PH
2519PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2520 driver and ACL definitions.
2521
acb1b346
PH
2522PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2523 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2524
c5ddb310
PH
2525PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2526 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2527 understands it better than I do:
2528
2529 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2530 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2531
2532 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2533 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2534 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2535 => three warnings about OTP not working
2536 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2537
2538 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2539 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2540 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2541 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2542 for each call.)
2543 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2544 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2545
2546 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2547 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2548 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2549
31619da6
PH
2550PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2551 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2552 specified.
2553
bebaf0fc
PH
2554PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2555 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2556 "Linux".
2557
475fe28a
PH
2558PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2559 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2560 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2561
2562 warn !verify = sender
2563 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2564
2565 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2566 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2567
7e8bec7a
PH
2568PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2569
2570 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2571 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2572
2573 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2574 nomenclature these days.)
2575
e4a89c47
PH
2576PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2577 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2578
5ca2a9a1
PH
2579PH/30 In these circumstances:
2580 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2581 . First host does not offer TLS;
2582 . First host accepts first address;
2583 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2584 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2585 . Second host accepts second address.
2586 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2587 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2588 address.
7e8bec7a 2589
c688b954
PH
2590PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2591 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2592 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2593 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2594 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2595
fed77020
PH
2596PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2597 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2598
7fe1560f
PH
2599PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2600 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2601
ebb6e6d5
PH
2602PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2603 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2604 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2605
9c4e8f60
PH
2606PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2607 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2608 overlooked.
2609
2610PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2611
d7174846
PH
2612PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2613 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2614 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2615 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2616 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2617 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2618 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2619
2620 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2621 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2622 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2623 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2624 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2625
2626 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2627 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2628 routed further.
2629
cfe75fc3
PH
2630PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2631 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2632 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2633 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2634 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2635 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2636
be22d70e
PH
2637PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2638
0612b098
PH
2639PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2640 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2641 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2642 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2643 printable escape sequences.
2644
2e0c1448
PH
2645PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2646 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2647 body only.
2648
447d236c
PH
2649PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2650 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2651 are as follows:
2652
2653 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2654 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2655 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2656 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2657 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2658
2659 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2660 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2661 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2662
d20976dc
PH
2663PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2664
f656d135
PH
2665PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2666 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2667 play with."
2668
2e2a30b4
PH
2669PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2670 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2671 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2672 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2673 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2674 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2675 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2676 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2677 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2678 the log output.
2679
9176e9f0
PH
2680PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2681 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2682 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2683 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2684 "make".
2685
7982096b 2686
bbe902f0
PH
2687A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2688----------------------------------------
2689
2690Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2691changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2692needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2693in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2694that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2695release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2696from 4.43.
2697
2698I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
26994.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2700those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2701historical information.
2702
2703
f7b63901 2704Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2705-----------------
2706
5fe762f6
PH
2707 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2708
139059f6 2709 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2710 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2711
7086e875
PH
2712 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2713 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2714 place.
2715
35af9f61
PH
2716 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2717 filter fails to execute.
2718
b668c215
PH
2719 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2720 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2721 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2722 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2723 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2724
a494b1e1
PH
2725 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2726
2727 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2728 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2729 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2730 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2731
c5fcb476
PH
2732 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2733 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2734 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2735 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2736 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2737
69358f02
PH
2738 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2739
5be20824
PH
274010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2741
eb2c0248
PH
274211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2743 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2744 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2745 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2746
2a3eea10
PH
274712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2748 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2749 sender verification.
2750
275113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2752 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2753
23c7ff99
PH
275414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2755
4deaf07d
PH
275615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2757 connection timeout.
2758
926e1192
PH
275916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2760 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2761
650edc6f
PH
276217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2763 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2764
2c7db3f5
PH
276518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2766 information about exactly what failed.
2767
3d235903
PH
276819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2769
7c7ad977
PH
277020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2771 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2772 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2773
981756db
PH
277421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2775 It is now set to "smtps".
2776
d4eb88df
PH
277722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2778 ignore_target_hosts.
2779
278023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2781 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2782 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2783 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2784 "[x.x.x.x]".
2785
7d468ab8
PH
278624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2787 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2788 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2789
279025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2791 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2792 wake it up if nothing else does.
2793
62c0818f
PH
279426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2795 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2796 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2797 end up negative.
2798
26034054
PH
279927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2800 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2801
af66f652
PH
280228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2803
90af77f4
PH
280429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2805 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2806 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2807 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2808 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2809 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2810 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2811 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2812
d8ef3577
PH
281330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2814 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2815 than one IP address.
2816
5cb8cbc6
PH
281731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2818 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2819 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2820 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2821
14702f5b
PH
282232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2823 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2824 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2825 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2826 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2827 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2828
063b1e99
PH
282933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2830 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2831 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2832 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2833
652e1b65
PH
283434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2835 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2836 respected.
2837
6f0c9a4f
PH
283835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2839 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2840 $sender_host_address.
2841
33397d19
PH
284236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2843 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2844 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2845 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2846 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2847 very small.
2848
7bb56e1f
PH
284937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2850
2851 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2852 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2853
ea3bc19b
PH
2854 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2855 just the host names, not the priorities.
2856
2857 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2858 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2859 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2860
ea3bc19b 2861 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2862 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2863
0bcb2a0e
PH
286438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2865 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2866 domain.
2867
2ac0e484
PH
286839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2869
4e1fde53
PH
287040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2871 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2872
de365ded
PH
287341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2874 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2875 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2876
f05da2e8
PH
287742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2878
d6453af2
PH
287943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2880
f7b63901
PH
288144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2882
288345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2884 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2885 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2886 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2887 because the tests only now provoked it.
2888
a444213a
PH
288946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2890 (this can affect the format of dates).
2891
0ec020ea
PH
289247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2893 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2894 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2895 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2896
b1206957
PH
289748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2898
289949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2900 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2901 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2902 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2903
26dd5a95
PH
290450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2905 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2906 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2907
343b2385
PH
290851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2909 autoreply.
2910
1c5466b9
PH
291152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2912 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2913 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2914 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2915 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2916 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2917 is going on).
2918
55ee9ee3
PH
291953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2920 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2921 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2922 the line.
2923
d38f8232
PH
292454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2925 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2926 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2927
2928 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2929 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2930 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2931 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2932 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2933 so I produce this patch..."
2934
3295e65b
PH
2935 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2936 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2937 is not defined.
2938
7102e136
PH
293955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2940 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2941 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2942 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2943 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2944
3ca0ba97
PH
294556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2946
c2bcbe20
PH
294757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2948 long debug lines gets shown.
2949
18ce445d
PH
295058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2951 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2952
1f5b4c3d
PH
295359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2954
2955 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2956 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2957 of $primary_hostname.
2958
b975ba52
PH
295960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2960 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2961 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2962 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2963 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2964 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2965 by change 4.50/55 above.
2966
2967 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2968 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2969 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2970 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2971 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2972 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2973 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2974
297561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2976 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2977 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2978 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2979
17ffcae7
PH
298062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2981 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2982
d95f9fdb
PH
298363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2984 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2985 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2986 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2987 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2988
86b8287f
PH
298964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2990 This has been fixed.
2991
60dc5e56
PH
299265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2993 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2994 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2995 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2996 the caching.)
2997
533244af
PH
299866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2999
a5a28604
PH
300067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3001 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3002 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3003 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3004
7e634d24
PH
300568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3006 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3007
3e11c26b
PH
300869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3009 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3010 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3011
6729cf78
PH
301270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3013 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3014 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3015 message there.
3016
00f00ca5
PH
301771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3018 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3019 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3020
c9bdd01c
PH
302172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3022 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3023 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3024 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3025
d43194df
PH
302673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3027 during host lookups.
3028
fe5b5d0b
PH
302974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3030 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3031
3032 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3033
76a2d7ba
PH
303475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3035 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3036 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3037 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3038 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3039 background.
3040
304176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3042 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3043
04f7d5b9
PH
304477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3045 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3046 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3047
bc60667e
PH
304878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3049
bb6e88ff
PH
305079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3051 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3052 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3053 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3054 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3055 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3056 process earlier.
3057
1e70f85b
PH
305880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3059 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3060 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3061 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3062 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3063
306481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3065 tables).
3066
4e01f9d6
PH
306782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3068
1ee1cef2
PH
306983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3070 "vacation" handling.
3071
6e2b4ccc
PH
307284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3073 OS variants using glibc.
3074
8e669ac1
PH
307585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3076
495ae4b0 3077
bbe902f0
PH
3078----------------------------------------------------
3079See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3080----------------------------------------------------
3081
3082
3083Exim version 4.44
3084-----------------
3085
3086 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3087 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3088 transport
3089
3090 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3091 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3092 place.
3093
3094 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3095 filter fails to execute.
3096
3097 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3098 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3099 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3100 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3101 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3102
3103 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3104 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3105 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3106 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3107
3108 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3109 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3110 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3111 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3112 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3113
3114 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3115
3116 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3117 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3118 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3119 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3120
3121 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3122 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3123 sender verification.
3124
312510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3126 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3127
312811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3129 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3130
313112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3132 ignore_target_hosts.
3133
313413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3135 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3136 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3137 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3138 "[x.x.x.x]".
3139
314014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3141 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3142 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3143
314415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3145 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3146 wake it up if nothing else does.
3147
314816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3149 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3150 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3151 end up negative.
3152
315317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3154 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3155
ea3a6f44 315618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3157
315819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3159 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3160 empty pattern.
3161
316220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3163 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3164 one IP address.
3165
ea3a6f44
NM
316621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3167 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3168 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3169 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3170 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3171 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3172
ea3a6f44
NM
317322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3174 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3175 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3176
317723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3178 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3179 $sender_host_address.
3180
318124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3182
ea3a6f44
NM
318325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3184 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3185 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3186
318726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3188 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3189
ea3a6f44
NM
319027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3191 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3192
ea3a6f44
NM
319328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3194 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3195 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3196 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3197
319829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3199 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3200 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3201
ea3a6f44
NM
320230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3203 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3204 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3205 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3206
ea3a6f44
NM
320731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3208 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3209 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3210
ea3a6f44
NM
321131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3212 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3213
ea3a6f44
NM
321432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3215 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3216 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3217 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3218 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3219 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3220 is going on).
bbe902f0 3221
ea3a6f44
NM
322233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3223 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3224 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3225 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3226 CAN-2005-0021
3227
ea3a6f44
NM
322834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3229 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3230 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3231 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3232 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3233 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3234 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3235
3236 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3237 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3238 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3239 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3240 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3241 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3242 CAN-2005-0021
3243
ea3a6f44
NM
324435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3245 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3246 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3247 CAN-2005-0022
3248
ea3a6f44
NM
324936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3250 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3251 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3252 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3253 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3254
ea3a6f44
NM
325537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3256 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3257 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3258 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3259 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3260
ea3a6f44
NM
326138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3262 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3263 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3264 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3265 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3266
3267
495ae4b0
PH
3268Exim version 4.43
3269-----------------
3270
3271 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3272 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3273 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3274 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3275 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3276 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3277 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3278
3279 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3280 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3281 the delivery.
3282
3283 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3284
3285 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3286
3287 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3288 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3289 to local_scan().
3290
3291 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3292 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3293 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3294 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3295 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3296
3297 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3298 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3299
3300 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3301
3302 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3303
330410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3305 header_sender only.
3306
330711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3308 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3309
331012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3311 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3312 affecting debugging statements).
3313
331413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3315
331614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3317 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3318 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3319 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3320 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3321 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3322 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3323 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3324 after the received time, and all would be well.
3325
332615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3327 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3328 condition in an expansion string.
3329
333016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3331
333217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3333 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3334 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3335 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3336 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3337 job under whatever limits there are.
3338
333918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3340
334119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3342 space).
3343
334420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3345 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3346 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3347 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3348 return path is set.
3349
335021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3351 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3352 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3353 binary data in such strings.
3354
335522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3356
335723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3358 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3359 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3360 failure, which is pointless.
3361
336224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3363
336425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3365
336626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3367 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3368 Sender: header lines.
3369
337027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3371 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3372 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3373
337428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3375 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3376 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3377 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3378 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3379 happens.
3380
338129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3382 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3383 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3384 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3385 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3386
338730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3388 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3389 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3390 1024.
3391
339231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3393 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3394
339532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3396 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3397
339833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3399
340032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3401
340233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3403
340434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3405 syntax error.
3406
340735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3408
340936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3410
341137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3412 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3413 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3414 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3415
341638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3417 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3418
3419
3420Exim version 4.42
3421-----------------
3422
3423 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3424 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3425 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3426 it was not quoted.
3427 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3428 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quot