Improve OpenSSL/GnuTLS; enable DNSSEC for non-smarthost
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.92
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
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14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe funxtions being used.
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18Exim version 4.91
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c39c8870 21GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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22 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
23 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
24 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
25 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
26 be defined in redis_servers.
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28GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
29 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
30
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31JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
32 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
33 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
34 extant use locations.
35
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36JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
37 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
38
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39JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
40 Previously only the last row was returned.
41
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42JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
43 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
44 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
45 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
46 input.
47
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48JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
49 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
50 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
51 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
52 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
53 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
54 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
55 Main pool for expansions.
56 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
57 active in the testsuite.
58 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
59
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60JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
61 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
62 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
63 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
64 round-robin DNS.
65
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66JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
67 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
68 failure response.
69
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70JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
71 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
72 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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74JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
75 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
76 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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78JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
79 rows affected is given instead).
80
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81JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
82 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
83
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84JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
85 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
86 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
87 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
88 for all multi-message initiating connections.
89
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90JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
91 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
92 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
93
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94JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
95 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
96 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
97 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
98 separate.
99
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100JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
101 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
102 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
103 fake-reject.
104
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105HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
106
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107JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
108 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
109
aab9a843 110PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 111 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 112 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 113
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114JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
115 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
116 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
117 and send a quit.
118
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119JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
120 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
121
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122JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
123 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
124 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
125
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126JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
127 for the build is renamed.
128
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129JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
130 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
131 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
132
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133JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
134 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
135 result replacing the original.
136
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137JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
138 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
139 and the resources needed to be freed.
140
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141JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
142
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143JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
144 was not propagated.
145
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146JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
147 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
148 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
149 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
150
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151JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
152 length value. Previously this would segfault.
153
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154HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
155 newer versions of the scanner.
156
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157JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
158 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
159 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
160 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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161 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
162 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
163 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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165JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
166 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
167 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
168 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
169 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
170 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
171 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
172 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
173 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
174 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
175
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176JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
177 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
178
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179JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
180
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181HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
182 allows proper process termination in container environments.
183
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184JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
185 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
186
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187JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
188 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
189 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
190
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191JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
192 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
193 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 194 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 195
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196JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
197 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
198 would be spooled.
199
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200PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
201 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
202
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203HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
204 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
205 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
206 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
207 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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209JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
210 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
211 lines.
212
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213JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
214 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
215
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216PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
217 suffix list.
218
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219JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
220 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
221 "bare" representation.
222
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223JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
224 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
225 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
226 corrupted the output.
227
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231
232JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
233 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
234 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
235 pairs of long lines into single ones.
236
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237PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
238 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
239
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240JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
241 This permits better logging.
242
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243JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
244 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
245 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
246 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
247 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 248 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 249
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250JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
251 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
252 "exiwhat" output.
253
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254PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
255 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
256 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
257
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258JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
259 than 255 are no longer allowed.
260
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261JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
262 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
263 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
264 client, there is no benefit for these.
265 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
266 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
267 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
268 is used (3.2.4 +).
269
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270PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
271 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
272
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273JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
274 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
275 erroneously found still-pending ones.
276
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277JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
278 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
279
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280JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
281 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
282 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
283 signature and again for transmission.
284
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285JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
286 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 287 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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289JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
290 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
291 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
292 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
293 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
294 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
295 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
296
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297JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
298 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
299 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 300 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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302PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
303 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
304 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
305 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
306 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
307 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
308 processing options.
309
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310JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
311 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
312 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
313 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
314 connections.
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316PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
317 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
318 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
319 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
320 versions.
321
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322JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
323 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
324 inaccessible.
325
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326JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
327 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
328 banner-time rejection.
329
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330JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
331 callout/hold.
332
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333PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
334 is the name of a transport.
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335 Fixes bug 2140.
336
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337HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
338
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339JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
340 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
341
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342JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
343 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
344 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
345 during compilation.
346
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347JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
348 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
349 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 350 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 351
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352JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
353 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
354 initial verify call returned a defer.
355
ad1a76fe 356JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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357 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
358
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359JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
360 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
361
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362JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
363 if present. Previously it was ignored.
364
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365JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
366 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
367
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368JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
369 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
370 extensible.
371
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372PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
373 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
374
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375PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
376 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
377 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
378
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379JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
380 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
381 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
382 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
383
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384HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
385 and confused the parent.
386
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387JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
388 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
389
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390JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
391 for log purposes.
392
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393JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
394 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
395 out-of-order delivery.
396
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397JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
398 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
399 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
400 error for the HELO.
401
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402JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
403 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
404 desynchronisation.
405
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406JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
407 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
408 one run was done. Bug 2189.
409
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410JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
411 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
412 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
413 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
414 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
415 message is still "Temporary local problem".
416
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417JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
418 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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419 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
420
421HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
422 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
423 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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425JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
426 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
427 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
428 though a different problem.
429
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9427e879 434JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 435 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 436
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437JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
438
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439PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
440 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
441
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442JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
443 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
444
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445JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
446 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
447 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
448 before acknowledging the chunk.
449
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450PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
451 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
452 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
453
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454JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
455 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
456 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
457 should.
458
459JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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460 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
461 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 463JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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464 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
465
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466JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
467 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
468 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
469 body hash calculated value.
470
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471JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
472 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
473 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
474
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475JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
476
477JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
478 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
479
480JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
481 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
482 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
483
484JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
485 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
486 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
487 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
488 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
489 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
490
491JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
492 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
493 past that check, despite the cost.
494
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495JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
496 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
497 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
498
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499PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
500 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
501 TLS library to consume.
502
da88acae
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503PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
504
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505PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
506
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507JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
508 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
509 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
510 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
511 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
512 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
513 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
514
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515PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
516
517PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
518
519PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
520 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
521 should be warning-free.
522
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523JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
524
525HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
526 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
527
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528HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
529 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
530 general solution here.
531
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532PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
533 already-broken messages in the queue.
534
4bb432cb
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535JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
536
3b1a84c8
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537JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
538
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543JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
544 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 545
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546JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
547 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
548 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
549
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550JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
551 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
552 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
553 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
554 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
555 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
556 if one fails this test.
557 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
558 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
559
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560JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
561 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
562
23bb6982 563JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 564 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 565
0bd1b1ed 566JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 567 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 568
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569JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
570 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
571
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572JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
573 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
574
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575JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
576
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577JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
578 certificate).
579
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580JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
581 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
582 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
583 connection after a verify cache hit.
584 Do not update it with the verify result either.
585
586JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
587 when routing results in more than one destination address.
588
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589JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
590 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
591 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
592 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
593 when the cutthrough connection is made).
594
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595JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
596 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
597
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598JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
599 Previously they were not counted.
600
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601JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
602 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
603 that needed the lookup.
604
4c04137d 605JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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606 distinguished as "(=".
607
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608JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
609 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
610
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611JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
612
613JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
614 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 615
4c04137d 616JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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617 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
618
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619JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
620 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
621 compatible.
622
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623JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
624 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
625 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
626 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
627
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628JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
629
f59aaaaa 630JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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631 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
632 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 633
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634JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
635 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
636 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
637 be lost.
638
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639JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
640 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
641 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
642 itself :(
643
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644JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
645 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
646 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
647
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648JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
649 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
650 options.
651
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652JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
653
317e40ac
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654PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
655 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
656
8b0fb68e
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657PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
658 are not in the system include path.
659
ad7fc6eb 660JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 661 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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662 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
663 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 664
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665JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
666 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
667 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
668
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669JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
670
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671HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
672 an incoming connection.
673
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674HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
675 to rspamd.
676
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677HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
678 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 679
87cb4a16 680JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 681 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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682
683
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687JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
688 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
689 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
690 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 691
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692TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
693 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
694
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695TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
696 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
697 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
698 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
699 outgoing I= field.
700
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701JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
702 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
703 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
704 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
705 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
706 check on the next write.
707
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708HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
709 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
710 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
711 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
712 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
713
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714JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
715 mime_regex ACL conditions.
716
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717JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
718 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
719 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
720
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721JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
722 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
723 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
724 an authenticate fail is not an error.
725
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726HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
727 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
728
4c04137d 729JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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730 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
731
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732JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
733 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
734 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
735 distinct.
736
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737JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
738
739JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
740
ec0eb1a3
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741JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
742
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743JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
744 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
745
98b98887 746JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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747 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
748
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749JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
750
858e91c2
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751JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
752 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
753
754JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
755
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756JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
757 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
758
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759JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
760
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761JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
762 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 763 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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764 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
765 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
766 they will retry in-clear.
767 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
768 at installation time.
769
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770HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
771 with the $config_file variable.
772
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773JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
774 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
775 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
776 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 777 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 778
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779GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
780 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
781 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
782 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
783 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
784
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785JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
786
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787JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
788 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
789 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
790 list order is no longer honoured.
791
4c04137d 792JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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793 for DKIM processing.
794
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795JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
796 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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798JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
799 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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800 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
801 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 802
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803JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
804 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
805
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806JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
807 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
808
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809JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
810 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
811
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812JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
813
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814JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
815 cached by the daemon.
816
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817JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
818 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
819
379ba7d0
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820JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
821 keys are given for lookup.
822
f444c2c7
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823JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
824 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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825 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
826 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 827
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828JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
829 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
830 server-side so match that on older versions.
831
07c73177 832JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 833 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 834 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 835
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836JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
837 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
838
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839JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
840 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
841 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 842 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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843 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
844 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
845 initial truncated version.
846
ab9152ff 847JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 848
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849JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
850
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851JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
852 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
853
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854JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
855
bc3c7bb7 856HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 857
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858JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
859 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
860 induced overflows.
861
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862JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
863 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
864 stage.
865
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866JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
867 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
868
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869JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
870 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
871 former class.
872
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873JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
874 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
875 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
876
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877JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
878 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
879 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
880 extraction. Accept either.
881
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886JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
887 expanded.
888
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889JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
890
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891JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
892 it.
893
01a4a5c5 894JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 895 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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896 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
897 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
898
cb1d7830 899JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 900 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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902
610ff438 903JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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904 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
905 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
906 TLS connections
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908JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
909 sites use this now.
910
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911JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
912 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
913 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
914 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
915 have a dsn_lasthop option.
916
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917JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
918 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 919 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 920
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921JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
922
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923JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
924 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
925
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926JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
927 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
928
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929JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
930 /defer_ok option.
931
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932JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
933 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
934
fd4d8871 935JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 936 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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937 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
938
939JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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940 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
941 specify a port-range.
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943JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
944 timeout value per server.
945
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946JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
947 now have the list separator specified.
948
8a512ed5 949JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 950 option values.
8a512ed5 951
82c0c8ea 952JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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953 under OpenSSL.
954
cc00f4af
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955JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
956
82c0c8ea
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957JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
958 rather than the verbs used.
959
b980ed83
JH
960JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
961 from 255 to 1024 chars.
962
6c9ed72e
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963JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
964
cfab9d68 965HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 966 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 967
f846c8f5
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968JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
969 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
970
fd4c285c
HSHR
971HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
972 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
973
4c04137d 974JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 975
d2a2c69b
JH
976JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
977
8241d8dd
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978JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
979 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 980 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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981 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
982
1f12df4d
JH
983JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
984
1f155f8e
JH
985JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
986 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
987
1705dd20
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988JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
989 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
990
038597d2
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991JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
992
474f71bf
JH
993JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
994
7137ca4b
JH
995JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
996
dcb1095c
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997JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
998 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
999
2f460950
JH
1000JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1001 added for tls authenticator.
1002
2f680c0c
HSHR
1003HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1004
9c695f6d 1005
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1006Exim version 4.85
1007-----------------
4c57a40e 1008
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1009TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1010 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1011 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1012 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1013 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1014 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1015 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1016
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1017TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1018 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1019 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1020 function when detected.
1021
a9b8ec8b
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1022JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1023 cause callback expansion.
1024
6286d7c4
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1025TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1026 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1027 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1028 instead of bool when processing it.
1029
0f06b4f2 1030JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1031 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1032
be36e572
JH
1033JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1034
ac4ef9bd
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1035JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1036
0eb51736
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1037TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1038
c713ca4b
TL
1039TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1040 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1041
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1042JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1043 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1044 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1045 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1046 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1047 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1048
8bc732e8
JH
1049JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1050 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1051 exceeded it.
1052
a7fec7a7
JH
1053JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1054 version 3.3.6 or later.
1055
4c04137d 1056JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1057 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1058 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1059 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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1060 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1061 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1062 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1063
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1064TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1065 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1066
8d692470
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1067JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1068 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1069 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1070 matches.
1071
e9477a08
JH
1072JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1073 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1074 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1075
ad4c5ff9
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1076JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1077 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1078
1079JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1080 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1081 syntax errors.
1082
3394b36a 1083JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1084
1085JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1086 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1087
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1088TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1089 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1090 tarball.
1091
ad4c5ff9
JH
1092JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1093
4c04137d 1094JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1095 Bug 1561.
1096
1097JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1098 output list separator was used.
1099
8bc732e8 1100
1f0ebb98
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1101Exim version 4.84
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1103TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1104 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1105 return.
1f0ebb98 1106
a612424f 1107JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1108 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1109
1110JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1111
1112TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1113 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1114
1f0ebb98 1115
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1117-----------------
1118
1119TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1120
1121 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1122 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1123 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1124 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1125 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1126 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1127
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1128TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1129 utilities have not been installed.
1130
fd5dad68
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1131JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1132 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1133
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1134TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1135 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1136
a3c86431
TL
1137TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1138 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
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1139 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1140 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1141
aa26e137
JH
1142JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1143
5a1b8443
WB
1144TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1145 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1146
72c9e342
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1147PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1148 not dns_use_dnssec.
1149
76f44207
WB
1150JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1151
770747fd
MFM
1152TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1153 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1154 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1155
8ddef691 1156TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1157 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1158 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1159 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1160 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1161 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1162
b9c2e32f
AR
1163JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1164
e45a1c37
JH
1165JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1166 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1167
67d81c10
JH
1168JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1169 failed delivery.
1170
b1f8e4f8
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1171JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1172
511a6c14 1173JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1174
1175JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1176 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1177
51c7471d
JH
1178JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1179 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1180
3695be34
TL
1181TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1182
1e06383a
TL
1183JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1184
76146973
JH
1185JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1186 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1187
1188 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1189 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1190 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1191
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TL
1192TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1193 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1194 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1195 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1196
35aba663
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1197JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1198
8c51eead 1199JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
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1200 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1201 lookup).
8c51eead 1202
deae092e
HS
1203TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1204 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1205 Schlichting.
35aba663 1206
fd3b6a4a 1207JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1208 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1209
8d91c6dc
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1210TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1211 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1212
2b4a568d
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1213JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1214
d2af03f4
HS
1215TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1216 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1217 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1218
9d1c15ef
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1219JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1220 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1221
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1222JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1223 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1224 hosts_request_ocsp.
1225
ed3bba5f 1226JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1227 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1228 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1229
8ccd00b1
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1230JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1231
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1232TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1233 Christian Aistleitner.
1234
f2de3a33
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1235JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1236
6eb02f88
TL
1237TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1238 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1239
00bff6f6
JH
1240JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1241 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1242
071c51f7
JH
1243JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1244 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1245
a6d4c44e
TF
1246TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1247 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1248
3ae173e7
ACK
1249TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1250 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1251
c13d09b8
TL
1252TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1253 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1254 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1255
0df4ab80
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1256JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1257
66be95e0
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1258PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1259 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1260 Jasper Wallace.
1261
1bd0d12b
JH
1262JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1263
0de7239e
TL
1264TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1265 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1266 CVE-2014-2972
1267
fd3b6a4a 1268
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1271
1272PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1273
12f69989
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1274PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1275 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1276
54c90be1
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1277PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1278 by GnuTLS.
1279
1f4a55da
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1280PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1281 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1282 routines.
1283
13363eba 1284PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1285
66645890 1286PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1287 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1288 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1289 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1290 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1291
a3fb9793 1292PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1293 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1294 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1295 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1296 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1297 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1298
d27f98fe 1299TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1300
6822b909
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1301TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1302
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1303TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1304 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1305
ae0e32ee 1306TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1307 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1308 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1309
1310TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1311
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1312TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1313
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1314TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1315 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1316
976b7e9f
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1317JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1318
be4a1376
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1319JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1320
ec4b68e5
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1321PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1322
d7148a07
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1323NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1324 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1325
585121e2 1326JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1327
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1328PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1329 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1330 function.
a5f239e4 1331
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1332PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1333 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1334
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1335JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1336 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1337 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1338
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1339JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1340
3a796370
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1341JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1342
ea722490 1343JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1344 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1345
b1b05573
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1346JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1347 Bugzilla 884.
1348
362145b5
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1349JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1350 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1351
3c0a92dc
JH
1352JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1353 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1354
6d7c6175
PP
1355PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1356 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1357 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1358
6f123593
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1359JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1360 authenticators.
1361
c8e2fc1e
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1362JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1363 for control.
1364
005ac57f
PP
1365PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1366
3f1df0e3
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1367PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1368 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1369 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1370 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1371
67bd1ab3
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1372TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1373
1374 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1375 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1376 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1377 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1378 the retry rules.
1379
1380 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1381 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1382 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1383
1384 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1385 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1386 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1387 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1388
1ddeb334
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1389 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1390 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1391 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1392 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1393 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1394 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1395 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1396
1397 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1398 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1399
326cdc37
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1400TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1401
1402 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1403
1404 Resent-From: f
1405
1406 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1407 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1408 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1409 username as equal to the username.
1410
1411 This change corrects that bug.
1412
f62514b3
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1413GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1414 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1415 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1416
eb505532
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1417TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1418
14c7b357
PP
1419PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1420 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1421 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1422 NULL dereference and crash.
1423
94eaf700
PP
1424JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1425
6f5a440a
PP
1426PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1427 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1428 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1429
514ee161
SC
1430SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1431
fd98a5c6
JH
1432JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1433 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1434 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1435 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1436 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1437 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1438 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1439 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1440 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1441 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1442 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1443
035c7f1e
PP
1444PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1445 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1446
ff284120
PP
1447PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1448 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1449 Bugzilla 880.
1450
26e72755
PP
1451PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1452 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1453 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1454 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1455 an empty string is now equivalent.
1456
0fbd9bff
PP
1457PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1458 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1459 not performing validation itself.
1460
700d22f3
PP
1461PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1462 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1463
fcc8e047
JH
1464JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1465 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1466
4c04137d 1467TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1468
8c020188
PP
1469PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1470 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1471 other false fix of the same issue.
1472 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1473 Bugzilla 1363.
1474
d13cdd30
PP
1475PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1476 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1477
e2fbf4a2
PP
1478PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1479 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1480 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1481
f4c1088b
PP
1482PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1483 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1484 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1485
c5c2182f
PP
1486TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1487
73431ca9
JH
1488JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1489
2d07a215
TL
1490TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1491 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1492
a30a8861
TL
1493TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1494 Alexander Miroch.
1495
33382dd9
TL
1496TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1497 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1498 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1499 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1500 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1501
046172e6
TL
1502TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1503 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1504
581d7bee 1505TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1506 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1507 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1508
1509TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1510 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1511 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1512 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1513
237b2cf2
TL
1514TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1515
9fc5a352
TL
1516TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1517 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1518 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1519
b10e4ec2
TL
1520TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1521
e2cebd74
TL
1522TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1523 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1524 interaction.
1525
1526TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1527 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1528
2519e60d
TL
1529TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1530 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1531
e78e6ecf 1532
4263f395
PP
1533Exim version 4.80.1
1534-------------------
1535
1536PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1537 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1538 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1539
ea722490 1540
b1770b6e 1541Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1542-----------------
1543
1544PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1545 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1546 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1547
23c7e742
NM
1548NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1549
b322aac8
NM
1550NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1551 improved.
1552
4a891427
NM
1553NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1554
c1e794ba 1555PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1556
97753960
PP
1557PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1558
1559PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1560 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1561
df6303fa
PP
1562PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1563 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1564
7e6a8985
PP
1565PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1566 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1567
f1e05cc7 1568PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1569 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1570 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1571
4c287009
PP
1572PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1573
b98bb9ac
PP
1574PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1575 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1576
4a6a987a
PP
1577PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1578
c45dd180 1579PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1580
7db8d074
PP
1581PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1582 non-compliant senders.
1583 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1584
eae0036b 1585NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1586 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1587 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1588
dec5017e
PP
1589PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1590 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1591 in spool file corruption.
1592
c80c5570
PP
1593PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1594 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1595 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1596 "Got SSL error 2".
1597
076b11e2
PP
1598TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1599 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1600 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1601
5407bfff
JH
1602JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1603 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1604
9e45c72b
PP
1605JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1606
e74376d8
PP
1607PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1608 diagnostics.
1609 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1610
4c04137d 1611PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1612 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1613 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1614
7be682ca
PP
1615PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1616 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1617 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1618 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1619
ef840681
PP
1620PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1621 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1622
5bfb4cdf
PP
1623PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1624 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1625 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1626 resolver implementation change.
1627
c6e95d22
PP
1628PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1629 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1630
9cbad13b
PP
1631PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1632
9ee44efb
PP
1633PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1634
6a6084f8
PP
1635PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1636 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1637
12dd53c7
PP
1638PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1639 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1640
9e45c72b 1641JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1642 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1643
17c76198
PP
1644PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1645 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1646 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1647 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1648 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1649
53947857 1650PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1651
eae0036b 1652PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1653 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1654 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1655
9e45c72b 1656JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1657
7390e768
PP
1658PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1659 read-only, out of scope).
1660 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1661
08488c86
PP
1662PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1663 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1664 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1665 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1666
6475bd82
PP
1667PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1668
81f91683
PP
1669PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1670 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1671 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1672 real issues in debug logging.
1673
5779e6aa
PP
1674PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1675 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1676
3375e053
PP
1677PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1678 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1679 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1680
1681PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1682 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1683 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1684 problems.
3375e053 1685
9d26b8c0
PP
1686PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1687 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1688
57eb9e91 1689PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1690 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1691 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1692 needs to override this, it can.
1693
16880d1a
PP
1694PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1695 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1696 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1697
a799883d
PP
1698PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1699 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1700 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1701 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1702
3ecab157 1703PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1704
0599f9cf 1705
867fcbf5
PP
1706Exim version 4.77
1707-----------------
1708
1709PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1710 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1711
f1a29782
TF
1712TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1713
ab42bd23
TK
1714TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1715 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1716
0ca0cf52
TF
1717TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1718 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1719
921b12ca
TF
1720TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1721 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1722 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1723
1724 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1725 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1726 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1727 not safe for signals.
1728
1729 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1730 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1731 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1732 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1733 exiwhat.
1734
c99ce5c9
TF
1735TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1736
1737 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1738 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1739 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1740 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1741 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1742
1743 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1744 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1745 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1746 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1747 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1748 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1749
1750 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1751 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1752 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1753 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1754
1755 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1756 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1757 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1758 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1759
1760 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1761 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1762 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1763 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1764 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1765 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1766 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1767 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1768 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1769
1770 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1771 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1772 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1773 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1774
1775 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1776 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1777 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1778 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1779 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1780 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1781 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1782 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1783 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1784 details in the main documentation.
1785
3634fc25
TF
1786TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1787
792e8a19
TF
1788TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1789
5901f0ab
TF
1790TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1791 repository when doing development or release builds.
1792
7f2a2a43
PP
1793PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1794 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1795
061b7ebd
PP
1796PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1797 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1798 Bugzilla 97.
1799
e12f8c32
PP
1800PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1801
9e949f00 1802PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1803 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1804
1805PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1806 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1807
555ae6af 1808PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1809 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1810
1811PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1812 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1813
6f7fe114
PP
1814PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1815 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1816
c566dd90
PP
1817PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1818 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1819 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1820 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1821
d6cc7c78 1822PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1823 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1824 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1825
0d0e4455
PP
1826PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1827
3399bb60 1828PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1829
1830PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1831 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1832
0ca0cf52 1833
10906672
PP
1834Exim version 4.76
1835-----------------
1836
1837PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1838
754a0503
PP
1839PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1840 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1841
c0c7b2da
PP
1842PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1843
e97d1f08
PP
1844PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1845
084c1d8c
PP
1846PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1847 Bugzilla 1098.
1848
4e7ee012
PP
1849PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1850 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1851
c8d52a00
PP
1852TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1853 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1854
54e7ce4a
PP
1855PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1856 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1857
5ee6f336
PP
1858PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1859 Bugzilla 1104.
1860
c8d52a00 1861TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1862 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1863
1864TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1865 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1866 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1867 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1868
1869PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1870 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1871
10906672 1872
aa097c4c
NM
1873Exim version 4.75
1874-----------------
1875
4c04137d 1876NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1877 Bugzilla 1073
1878
7f3d9eff
TF
1879TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1880 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1881 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1882
159f52d2
TF
1883TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1884 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1885
0cc9542a
PP
1886PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1887 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1888 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1889
f7274286
PP
1890PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1891 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1892
7b797365
PP
1893PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1894 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1895
caacae52
NM
1896NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1897 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1898
09dcaba9
NM
1899NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1900 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1901
bc19a55b
PP
1902PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1903 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1904
bd4c9759
NM
1905NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1906 Fixes bug 943.
1907
b72aab72
PP
1908PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1909 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1910
2fe76745
PP
1911PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1912 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1913
76aa570c
PP
1914PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1915 SQL string expansion failure details.
1916 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1917
f1e5fef5
PP
1918PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1919 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1920
4d805ee9
PP
1921PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1922 extern declarations in function scope.
1923 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1924
cd59ab18
PP
1925PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1926 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1927 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1928 a kernel bug).
1929
332f5cf3
PP
1930PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1931 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1932
29cfeb94
PP
1933PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1934 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1935
660242ad
PP
1936PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1937 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1938
bc4bc4c5
PP
1939PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1940 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1941
2e64baa9
NM
1942NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1943 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1944 Dennis Davis.
1945
4c04137d 1946PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1947
6bac1a9a
PP
1948PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1949
552193f0
NM
1950NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1951 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1952
1b587e48
TF
1953TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1954 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1955
aa097c4c 1956
8c07b69f
TF
1957Exim version 4.74
1958-----------------
1959
1960TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1961 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1962
c0ea85ab
TF
1963TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1964 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1965
0761d44e
TF
1966TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1967
0a349494
PP
1968DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1969 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1970 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1971
1972PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1973 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1974 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1975
fea24b2e
PP
1976PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1977 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1978 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1979 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1980
6545de78
PP
1981PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1982 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1983 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1984 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1985
1670ef10
PP
1986PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1987 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1988 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1989 arbitrary files.
1990
c0886197
PP
1991PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1992 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1993
b7487bce
PP
1994PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1995 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1996 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1997 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1998 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1999
8c07b69f 2000
97fd1e48 2001Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2002-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2003
2004PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2005 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2006 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2007
6901c596
PP
2008PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2009 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2010
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2011JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2012
77bb000f
PP
2013PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2014
a29e5231
PP
2015PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2016
ec5a0394 2017PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2018
55c75993
PP
2019PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2020
453a6645 2021PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2022 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2023 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2024 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2025
8544e77a
PP
2026PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2027 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2028 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2029 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2030 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2031
83e029d5
PP
2032PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2033
ed7f7860
PP
2034PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2035
7d9f747b
PP
2036PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2037
4b2241d2
PP
2038PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2039
10385c15
PP
2040PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2041
dbc4b90d
PP
2042PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2043
532be449
PP
2044PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2045
6a8de854 2046PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2047 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2048 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2049
5dc43717
JJ
2050JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2051
2052JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2053 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2054
3346ab01
PP
2055PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2056 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2057
491fab4c
PP
2058PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2059 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2060 Notification from John Horne.
2061
13eb9497
PP
2062PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2063 compatible.
2064
2065PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2066 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2067 it normally works.
2068
7f36d675
DW
2069DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2070 access.
2071
c1d94452
DW
2072DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2073 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2074 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2075
e2f5dc15
DW
2076DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2077 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2078 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2079 configuration file.
2080
cd25e41d
DW
2081DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2082 option (effectively making it always true).
2083
261dc43e
DW
2084DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2085 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2086
fa32850b
DW
2087DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2088 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2089
79d4bc3d
PP
2090PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2091 run-time user, instead of root.
2092
43236f35 2093PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2094 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2095
fb08281f
DW
2096DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2097 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2098 arguments.
3346ab01 2099
74935b98
DW
2100DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2101 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2102 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2103
90b6341f
DW
2104DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2105
57730b52
ML
2106NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2107
66581d1e 2108
465e92cf
JJ
2109Exim version 4.72
2110-----------------
2111
453a6645
PP
2112JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2113 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2114 typos
465e92cf 2115
453a6645
PP
2116JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2117 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2118 (Finput)
edae0343 2119
9bd3e22c
NM
2120NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2121 Patch from Alain Williams
2122
bb576ff7
NM
2123NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2124
5a1a5845
NM
2125NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2126 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2127
981a9fad
NM
2128NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2129 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2130
7fc497ee
NM
2131NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2132
1a41defa
JJ
2133JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2134
a466095c 2135NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2136 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2137
94a6bd0b
NM
2138TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2139
2140TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2141
2142MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2143 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2144 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2145
c1b141a8
NM
2146NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2147 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2148
b26eacf1 2149NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2150 Patch by Simon Arlott
2151
179c5980 2152PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2153 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2154
9bd3e22c 2155
7c6d71af
NM
2156Exim version 4.71
2157-----------------
2158
7d9f747b 2159TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2160
f013fb92
NM
2161NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2162
0eb8eedd
NM
2163NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2164
663ee6d9
NM
2165NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2166
177ebd9b
NM
2167NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2168
7c6d71af 2169
210f147e
NM
2170Exim version 4.70
2171-----------------
2172
cdd3bb85 2173TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2174 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2175
2176TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2177 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2178 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2179
2180TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2181 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2182 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2183
2184TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2185 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2186
210f147e
NM
2187NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2188 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2189 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2190 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2191
deafd5b3
NM
2192NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2193 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2194 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2195
089793a4
TF
2196TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2197
5f16ca82
TF
2198TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2199
dae9d94e 2200NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2201 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2202
7d9f747b 2203NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2204
06864c44
TF
2205TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2206 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2207 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2208 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2209
65a7d8c3 2210NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2211 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2212
23510047 2213TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2214
7d9f747b 2215NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2216
7d8eec3a 2217NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2218 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2219
89dec7b6
TF
2220TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2221 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2222
a99de90c
TF
2223TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2224 that they are available at delivery time.
2225
e2803e40
TF
2226TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2227
7199e1ee
TF
2228TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2229 incoming_port log selectors.
2230
e276e04b
TF
2231TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2232 setting expands to an empty string.
2233
ce552449 2234NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2235 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2236
e765a0f1 2237NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2238 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2239
4f054c63 2240NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2241 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2242
7d9f747b
PP
2243NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2244 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2245
7d9f747b
PP
2246NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2247 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2248
b52bc06e 2249NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2250 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2251
447de4b0
NM
2252NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2253
4c69d561 2254NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2255 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2256
d5c39246 2257NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2258 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2259
0b23848a
TK
2260TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2261
8f3414a1 2262NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2263 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2264
fb6f955d
NM
2265NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2266
2267NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2268
7d9f747b
PP
2269NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2270 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2271
7d9f747b
PP
2272NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2273 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2274
7d9f747b
PP
2275NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2276 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2277
7d9f747b
PP
2278NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2279 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2280
7d9f747b
PP
2281NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2282 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2283
7d9f747b
PP
2284NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2285 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2286
7d9f747b
PP
2287NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2288 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2289
7d9f747b 2290NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2291 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2292
7d9f747b 2293NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2294
7d9f747b
PP
2295NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2296 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2297
7d9f747b 2298NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2299
7d9f747b 2300NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2301
7d9f747b 2302NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2303
7d9f747b 2304NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2305
17792b53 2306NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2307 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2308
7d9f747b
PP
2309NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2310 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2311
91576cec 2312NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2313 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2314
7d9f747b
PP
2315NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2316 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2317
7d9f747b 2318NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2319
7d9f747b 2320NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2321
7d9f747b 2322NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2323
7d9f747b 2324NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2325
deafd5b3 2326
47db1125
NM
2327Exim version 4.69
2328-----------------
2329
4b3504d0
TK
2330TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2331 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2332 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2333
2334 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2335 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2336 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2337 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2338 build errors in sieve.c.
2339
81ea09ca
NM
2340NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2341 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2342 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2343
f13cddcb
SC
2344SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2345
7d9f747b 2346NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2347
7d9f747b 2348NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2349
7d9f747b 2350NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2351
2352
eb4c0de6
PH
2353Exim version 4.68
2354-----------------
2355
2356PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2357
6a3bceb1
PH
2358PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2359 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2360 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2361 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2362 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2363 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2364 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2365 for iplsearch lookups.
2366
2367 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2368 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2369 previously such lookups could never work.
2370
4c04137d 2371 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2372 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2373 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2374
2e30fa9d
TK
2375TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2376 version.
2377
0806a9c5
MH
2378MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2379 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2380 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2381 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2382 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2383 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2384
ae276964
TK
2385TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2386 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2387
0f2cbd1b
MH
2388MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2389 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2390 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2391 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2392 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2393 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2394
2b85bce7
PH
2395PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2396 local_scan API.
2397
93655c46
PH
2398PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2399
6c512171
PH
2400PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2401 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2402 encrypted.
2403
2404PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2405 by clients under certain conditions.
2406
aa6dc513
PH
2407PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2408 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2409
a96603a0
PH
2410PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2411
8f240103
PH
2412PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2413 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2414
2415PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2416
d677b2f2
PH
2417PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2418
d52120f2
PH
2419PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2420
64f2600a
PH
2421PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2422 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2423
8669f003
PH
2424PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2425
a4dc33a8
PH
2426PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2427 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2428
d6a60c0f
PH
2429PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2430
8f128379
PH
2431PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2432
8932dffe
PH
2433PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2434 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2435 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2436 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2437
ddea74fa 2438PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2439 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2440 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2441
ddea74fa 2442PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2443 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2444
ddea74fa
PH
2445PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2446
ce9f225c
PH
2447PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2448
19897d52
PH
2449PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2450
bc64a74d
PH
2451PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2452 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2453 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2454
eb4c0de6 2455
b4ed4da0
PH
2456Exim version 4.67
2457-----------------
2458
22ad45c9
MH
2459MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2460 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2461 Jan Srzednicki.
2462
b4ed4da0
PH
2463PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2464 issue a MAIL command.
2465
431b7361
PH
2466PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2467
2468 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2469
2470 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2471 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2472 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2473 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2474 item. This has been fixed.
2475
2476PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2477 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2478
83da1223
PH
2479PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2480 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2481
54fc8428
PH
2482PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2483 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2484 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2485
34c5e8dd
SC
2486SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2487
bbe15da8
PH
2488PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2489 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2490 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2491 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2492 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2493
0e8a9471
MH
2494MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2495 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2496 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2497
f0872424
PH
2498PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2499 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2500 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2501 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2502
b01dd148
PH
2503PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2504
6bf342e1
PH
2505PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2506
273f34d0
PH
2507PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2508 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2509 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2510 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2511 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2512
cf8b11a5
PH
2513PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2514
41c7c167
PH
2515PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2516 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2517 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2518 values).
2519
9c57cbc0
PH
2520PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2521
f3f065bb
PH
2522PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2523
047bdd8c
PH
2524PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2525
0ce9abe6
PH
2526PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2527
0e22dfd1
PH
2528PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2529
4c590bd1
PH
2530PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2531 no_callout_flush is set.
2532
09945f1e
PH
2533PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2534 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2535 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2536 fixed.
2537
c51b8e75
PH
2538PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2539
e28326d8 2540PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2541 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2542 other ACL rejections are.
2543
75b1493f
PH
2544PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2545 with slight modification.
2546
7c5214ec
PH
2547PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2548 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2549
4311097e
PH
2550PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2551 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2552 connection.
2553
29f89cad
PH
2554PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2555 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2556
5e687460
SC
2557SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2558
c3611384
PH
2559PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2560 expansion side effects.
2561
5a11a7b4
PH
2562PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2563 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2564 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2565 be the same.
2566
0e20aff9
MH
2567MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2568 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2569 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2570
ca86f471
PH
2571PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2572 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2573 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2574 were accidentally chopped off.
2575
a14e5636
PH
2576PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2577 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2578 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2579 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2580 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2581 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2582 pipelining has not been advertised.
2583
ec95d1a6
PH
2584PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2585
42855d71
PH
2586PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2587 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2588 This has been fixed.
2589
57c2c631
PH
2590PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2591 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2592 reported on Solaris.
2593
58c01c94
PH
2594PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2595 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2596 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2597 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2598 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2599 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2600 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2601
dee5a20a
PH
2602PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2603 cpus.
2604
d2ee6114
PH
2605PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2606
b2d5182b
PH
2607PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2608
79749a79
PH
2609PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2610 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2611 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2612 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2613 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2614 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2615
c456d9bb
PH
2616PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2617 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2618 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2619 host_all_ignored option.
2620
cd9868ec
PH
2621PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2622 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2623 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2624 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2625 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2626 is what is supposed to happen).
2627
ebeaf996
PH
2628PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2629 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2630 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2631 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2632 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2633 uses the Exim user.
2634
2679d413
PH
2635PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2636 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2637 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2638 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2639 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2640 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2641 users.
2642
84024b72
PH
2643PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2644
8005d38e
SC
2645SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2646 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2647 (Jez Hancock).
2648 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2649 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2650
3298c6c6
SC
2651SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2652
a43a27c5
PH
2653PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2654
58eb016e 2655PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2656 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2657 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2658 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2659 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2660 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2661 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2662 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2663 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2664 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2665 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2666
b43a74ea
PH
2667PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2668 advertised in response to EHLO.
2669
b4ed4da0 2670
5dd1517f
PH
2671Exim version 4.66
2672-----------------
2673
2674PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2675 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2676
2677 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2678 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2679
2680 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2681 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2682 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2683
2684 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2685 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2686 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2687 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2688 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2689
2690
93cfa765
TK
2691Exim version 4.65
2692-----------------
2693
2694TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2695 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2696 versions. (#438)
2697
d6066548
MH
2698MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2699 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2700 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2701
4362ff0d
PH
2702PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2703 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2704 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2705 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2706 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2707 rather than extend the field.
2708
93cfa765 2709
944e9e9c
TF
2710Exim version 4.64
2711-----------------
aa41d2de 2712
21d74bd9
TK
2713TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2714 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2715 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2716 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2717 these files.
2718
2719TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2720 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2721 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2722
2723TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2724 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2725 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2726
2727TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2728 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2729 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2730 in the field name.
2731
2b1c6e3a
PH
2732PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2733 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2734 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2735 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2736 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2737 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2738 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2739 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2740 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2741 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2742 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2743
1f872c80
PH
2744PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2745 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2746
2747PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2748 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2749 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2750 ignores EPIPE as well.
2751
d203e649
PH
2752PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2753 (quoted-printable decoding).
2754
cc2ed8f7 2755PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2756 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2757
ddfcd446
PH
2758PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2759
d45b1de8
PH
2760PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2761
2762PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2763
38a0a95f 2764PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2765 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2766
a2405d83
JJ
2767JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2768 in 4.64-PH/09.
2769
2770JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2771 miscellaneous code fixes
2772
6ea85e9a
PH
2773PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2774 rejections.
2775
26da7e20
PH
2776PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2777 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2778 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2779 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2780 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2781 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2782 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2783 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2784
14aa5a05 2785PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2786 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2787 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2788 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2789 function.
2790 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2791 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2792 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2793 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2794 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2795 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2796 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2797 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2798 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2799
ff75a1f7
PH
2800PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2801 decoding.
2802
e6f6568e
PH
2803PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2804 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2805 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2806 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2807 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2808 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2809 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2810 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2811
d6f6e0dc
PH
2812PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2813 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2814 list.
2815
322050c2
PH
2816PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2817 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2818 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2819 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2820 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2821 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2822 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2823 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2824 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2825 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2826 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2827 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2828 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2829
08955dd3
PH
2830PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2831 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2832 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2833 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2834 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2835 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2836 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2837
1eccaa59
PH
2838PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2839 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2840 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2841 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2842 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2843 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2844 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2845 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2846 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2847 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2848
602e59e5
PH
2849PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2850 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2851 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2852 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2853 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2854
411ef850
PH
2855PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2856 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2857 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2858 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2859 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2860 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2861 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2862
7befa435
PH
2863PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2864 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2865 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2866 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2867 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2868 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2869 been verified.
2870
48da4259 2871PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2872 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2873 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2874 and authorization.)
2875
48da4259
PH
2876PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2877 if any retry times were supplied.
2878
d1d5595c
PH
2879PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2880 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2881 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2882
0ef732d9
PH
2883PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2884
328895cc
PH
2885PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2886
fd700877
PH
2887PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2888 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2889 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2890 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2891 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2892 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2893
8dce1a6f
PH
2894PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2895 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2896
17af4a17
PH
2897PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2898 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2899 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2900
2901PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2902 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2903 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2904 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2905 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2906 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2907 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2908 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2909 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2910
2911 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2912 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2913 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2914 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2915 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2916 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2917 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2918 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2919 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2920
2921 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2922 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2923 hammering the server.
2924
c1114884
PH
2925PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2926 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2927
7a0743eb
PH
2928PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2929
0d85fa3f
PH
2930PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2931 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2932 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2933
1bf43b78
PH
2934PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2935 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2936 one case where this was not true.
2937
520de300
PH
2938PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2939 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2940 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2941 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2942 fails.
2943
48c7f9e2
PH
2944PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2945 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2946 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2947 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2948 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2949 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2950 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2951 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2952 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2953 smtp transport.
2954
99ea1c86
PH
2955PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2956 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2957 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2958 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2959
a2042e78
PH
2960PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2961 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2962
4fbcfc2e
PH
2963PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2964 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2965 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2966
aa41d2de
PH
2967PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2968
af561417
PH
2969PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2970
3cc66b45
PH
2971PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2972
194cc0e4
PH
2973PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2974 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2975 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2976 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2977
a401ddaa
PH
2978PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2979 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2980
4e88a19f
PH
2981PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2982 be meaningful with "accept".
2983
d7d7b289
SC
2984SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2985 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2986
2987SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2988 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2989 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2990
2991SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2992 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2993 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2994 there is data to show.
2995 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2996
2997SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2998 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2999 as well as the number of messages.
3000
3001SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3002 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3003 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3004
3005SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3006 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3007 have a flag are now skipped.
3008
3009SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3010 Added the -emptyok flag.
3011
3012SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3013 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3014
0ea2a468
JJ
3015JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3016 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3017 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3018
3019JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3020 match 4.64-PH/13
3021
3022JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3023 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3024
3025JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3026
3027JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3028 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3029
8a10f5a4
PH
3030PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3031
30e18802
PH
3032PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3033 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3034 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3035 contravention of the specifications.
3036
55728a4f
PH
3037PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3038 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3039 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3040
d7837193
PH
3041PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3042 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3043 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3044
87054a31
PH
3045PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3046
ea2c01d2
MH
3047MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3048 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3049 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3050 some point in the past.
3051
e4fa6968
PH
3052PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3053 transport during callout processing was broken.
3054
56f5d9bd
PH
3055PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3056 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3057
922e1c28
PH
3058PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3059 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3060
21eb6e72
PH
3061PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3062 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3063
a0540757
PH
3064PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3065
944e9e9c 3066
478be7b0
SC
3067Exim version 4.63
3068-----------------
3069
3070SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3071 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3072
3073SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3074 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3075 there is data to show.
3076 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3077
3078SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3079 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3080
2b965a65
TF
3081TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3082 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3083
45b91596
PH
3084TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3085 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3086
c59f5781
TF
3087TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3088 submissions from trusted users.
3089
90fc3069
TF
3090TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3091 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3092
6083aca0
TF
3093TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3094 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3095 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3096 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3097 there is now a framework to start from.
3098
765b530f
PH
3099PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3100 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3101 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3102
4e167a8c
PH
3103PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3104
4608d683
PH
3105PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3106
b8dc3e4a
PH
3107PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3108
5418e93b
PH
3109PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3110 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3111 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3112
b4a9bda2
PH
3113PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3114 libradius.
3115
45b91596
PH
3116PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3117 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3118 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3119
5547e2c5
PH
3120PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3121 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3122 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3123 its arguments.
3124
dbcef0ea
PH
3125PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3126 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3127 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3128 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3129 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3130
25257489
PH
3131PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3132 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3133
c816d124
PH
3134PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3135
a9ccd69a
PH
3136PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3137 operations in malware.c.
3138
75fa1910
PH
3139PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3140 signatures.
3141
a7d7aa58
PH
3142PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3143 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3144 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3145 all.
3146
42119b09
PH
3147PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3148 statements to "add_header".
3149
41609df5
PH
3150PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3151 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3152
a5bd321b
PH
3153PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3154 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3155 latter.
3156
e85a7ad5 3157PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3158 so that it is now:
3159
e85a7ad5
PH
3160 ${if or { \
3161 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3162 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3163 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3164 }{no}{yes}}
3165
e85a7ad5
PH
3166 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3167 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3168
d8fe1c03
PH
3169PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3170 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3171
16282d2b
PH
3172PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3173 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3174 any possible encoding problems.
3175
35d40a98
PH
3176PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3177 but not after initializing Perl.
3178
034d99ab
PH
3179PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3180 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3181 apparently, which is not desirable.
3182
6ec97b1b
PH
3183PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3184 queries.
3185
e22ca4ac
JJ
3186JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3187 --not options
3188
3189JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3190
33d73e3b
PH
3191PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3192 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3193 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3194 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3195
9ecb03f3
PH
3196PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3197 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3198 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3199
084efe8d
PH
3200PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3201 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3202 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3203 0.12.
3204
366fc9f0
PH
3205PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3206 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3207 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3208 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3209 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3210
c59f5781 3211
c887c79e
TF
3212Exim version 4.62
3213-----------------
3214
3215TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3216 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3217
1cce3af8
PH
3218PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3219 patch).
3220
afb3eaaf
PH
3221PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3222 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3223 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3224 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3225 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3226 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3227 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3228 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3229 451 error is used.
3230
e173618b
PH
3231PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3232
dd16e114
PH
3233PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3234 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3235 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3236
f7fd3850
PH
3237PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3238 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3239 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3240 odd errors.
3241
d87df92c
PH
3242PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3243 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3244
7e9f683d
PH
3245PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3246 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3247 option (which defaults to 0600).
3248
bfad5236
PH
3249PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3250
01c490df
PH
3251PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3252 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3253 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3254 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3255 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3256 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3257 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3258
d6629cdc
PH
3259PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3260
1cce3af8 3261
214e2000
PH
3262Exim version 4.61
3263-----------------
3264
3265PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3266 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3267 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3268 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3269 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3270 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3271 addresses as local.
3272
f9daeae0
PH
3273PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3274 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3275
7e66e54d
PH
3276PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3277
c8ea1597
PH
3278PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3279 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3280 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3281 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3282 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3283 grumble.
3284
911f6fde
PH
3285PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3286 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3287
47ca6d6c
PH
3288PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3289 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3290 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3291 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3292 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3293
ed0e9820
PH
3294PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3295 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3296 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3297 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3298
eff37e47
PH
3299PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3300 be the same on different OS.
3301
1921d2ea
PH
3302PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3303 testing.
3304
b3f69ca8
JJ
3305JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3306 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3307
3308JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3309 in 4.61-PH/06
3310
424a1c63
PH
3311PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3312 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3313 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3314 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3315 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3316 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3317 bounce message.
3318
7a100415
PH
3319PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3320 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3321 when Exim was called.
3322
19b9dc85
PH
3323PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3324 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3325
309bd837
PH
3326PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3327 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3328 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3329 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3330
59e82a2a
PH
3331PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3332 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3333 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3334 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3335 changes:
3336
3337 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3338 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3339 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3340
3341 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3342 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3343 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3344
9edc04ce
PH
3345PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3346 feature).
3347
1349e1e5
PH
3348PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3349 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3350 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3351 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3352 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3353 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3354 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3355 values from the SRV records were lost.
3356
ea49d0e1
PH
3357PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3358 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3359 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3360
064a94c9
PH
3361PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3362 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3363 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3364
727071f8
PH
3365PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3366 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3367 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3368 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3369 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3370 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3371 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3372 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3373 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3374 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3375
f78eb7c6
PH
3376PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3377 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3378 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3379
21c28500
PH
3380PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3381 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3382
3383PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3384 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3385 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3386 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3387 is given.
3388
1688f43b
PH
3389PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3390 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3391 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3392
3393PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3394 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3395 PH/23 above applies.
3396
9675b384
PH
3397PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3398 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3399 (for which there is an explicit test).
3400
6a3f1455
PH
3401PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3402
dac79d3e
PH
3403PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3404 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3405 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3406 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3407 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3408
5977a0b3
PH
3409PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3410 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3411 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3412 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3413
c91535f3
PH
3414PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3415 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3416 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3417
0d46a8c8
PH
3418PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3419
278c6e6c
PH
3420PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3421
2cbb4081
PH
3422PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3423 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3424 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3425
3eef829e
PH
3426PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3427 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3428 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3429 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3430 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3431
1ab95fa6
PH
3432PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3433 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3434 the message gets confusing).
3435
230205fc
PH
3436PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3437 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3438 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3439 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3440
75e0e026
PH
3441PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3442 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3443 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3444 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3445 same order.
3446
3447PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3448 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3449 the different processes.
3450
145396a6
PH
3451PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3452
3cd34f13
PH
3453PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3454
11121d3d
JJ
3455JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3456 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3457
3458JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3459 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3460
3461JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3462 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3463 messages matching specified criteria.
3464
8def5aaf
PH
3465PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3466
929ba01c
PH
3467PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3468 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3469
2632889e
PH
3470PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3471 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3472 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3473 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3474 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3475 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3476 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3477 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3478 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3479 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3480
944a9c55
PH
3481PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3482 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3483 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3484
4a23603b
PH
3485PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3486
4730f942
PH
3487PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3488 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3489 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3490 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3491 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3492 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3493 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3494 the variable.
3495
30dba1e6
PH
3496PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3497 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3498
382afc6b
PH
3499PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3500
a86229cf
PH
3501PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3502
50c99ba6
PH
3503PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3504
d35e429d
PH
3505PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3506 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3507 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3508 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3509 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3510 size of the count of files.
3511
f90d018c
PH
3512PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3513
75def545
PH
3514PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3515 used in LMTP mode:
3516
3517 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3518 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3519 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3520 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3521
3522 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3523 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3524 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3525
3526PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3527 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3528 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3529 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3530 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3531
c46782ef
PH
3532PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3533 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3534
71fafd95
PH
3535PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3536 will now be deprecated.
3537
2c5db4fd
PH
3538PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3539
9cf6b11a
JJ
3540JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3541 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3542 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3543
3544JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3545 with very large, slow to parse queues
3546
3547JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3548
3549JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3550
898d150f
PH
3551PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3552 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3553 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3554 SMTP output lines.
3555
46218253
PH
3556PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3557 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3558 Sieve code now uses this.
3559
e97957bc
PH
3560PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3561 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3562
81e509d7
PH
3563PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3564 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3565
3d240ff7
PH
3566PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3567
b37c4101
PH
3568PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3569 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3570 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3571 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3572 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3573
79378e0f
PH
3574PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3575 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3576 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3577 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3578
e49c7bb4
PH
3579PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3580
d114ec46
PH
3581PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3582
f3d7df6c
PH
3583PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3584 is preferred over IPv4.
3585
715ab376
PH
3586PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3587 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3588 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3589 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3590 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3591 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3592 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3593
6b31b150
PH
3594PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3595 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3596 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3597
3598PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3599
d515a917
PH
3600PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3601 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3602 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3603 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3604 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3605 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3606 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3607 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3608 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3609 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3610 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3611
9b8fadde
PH
3612PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3613 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3614 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3615
214e2000 3616
5de37277
PH
3617Exim version 4.60
3618-----------------
3619
cc38ddbf
PH
3620PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3621
3622 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3623 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3624
3625 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3626 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3627 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3628
72fdd6ae
PH
3629PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3630
3631 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3632 not a single digit.
3633
3634 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3635 string.
3636
3637 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3638 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3639 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3640 silly things.
3641
3642 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3643 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3644
3645 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3646 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3647
cb741023
PH
3648PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3649 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3650 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3651
f174f16e
PH
3652PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3653 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3654
c25242d7
PH
3655PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3656 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3657
3658 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3659
3660 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3661 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3662 this:
3663
3664 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3665
82c19f95
PH
3666PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3667 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3668 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3669 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3670 identical. For example:
3671
3672 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3673
3674 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3675 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3676 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3677
d7ffbc12
PH
3678PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3679 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3680 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3681 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3682
9f526266
PH
3683PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3684 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3685 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3686 message.
3687
87fcc8b9
PH
3688PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3689
3690 o fixes some comments
3691 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3692 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3693 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3694 and documents the missing references header update
3695
3696 and most important:
3697
3698 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3699 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3700 result)
3701
456682f5
PH
3702PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3703 Electronic Mail") by including:
3704
3705 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3706
3707 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3708 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3709 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3710 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3711 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3712
3713 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3714
3715 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3716
3717 The auto-replied keyword:
3718
3719 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3720 message by an automatic process,
3721
3722 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3723
3724 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3725 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3726
3727 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3728 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3729 other messages.
3730
3e46c1aa
PH
3731PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3732 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3733
49826d12
PH
3734PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3735
eba0c039
PH
3736PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3737 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3738 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3739
a0d6ba8a
PH
3740PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3741 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3742 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3743
f0917727
PH
3744PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3745 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3746 and treats the condition as false.
3747
096fee00
PH
3748PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3749
024bd3c2
PH
3750PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3751 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3752 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3753 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3754 not changing the active code.
3755
3756 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3757 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3758
3759 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3760 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3761
df199fec
PH
3762PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3763 (Bugzilla #53).
3764
d27f1df3
PH
3765PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3766 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3767 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3768 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3769 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3770 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3771 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3772 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3773 the text comparison.
3774
96776534
PH
3775PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3776 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3777 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3778 The same fix has been applied.
3779
5de37277 3780
9a799bc0
PH
3781Exim version 4.54
3782-----------------
3783
3784PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3785 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3786 It now does.
3787
99a4b039
PH
3788PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3789 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3790
3791PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3792
4b233853
PH
3793PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3794 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3795 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3796 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3797 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3798
8857ccfd
PH
3799TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3800 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3801 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3802 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3803 or /domain=).
3804
433a2980
PH
3805PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3806 testing suite.
3807
3e46c1aa 3808
9a799bc0 3809
e3a311ba
TK
3810Exim version 4.53
3811-----------------
3812
3813TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3814 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3815
13b685f9
PH
3816PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3817
395ff96d
PH
3818PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3819
5b68f6e4
PH
3820PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3821 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3822 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3823
1ab52c69
PH
3824PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3825 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3826 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3827
b07e6aa3
PH
3828PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3829 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3830 operating systems.
3831
254e032f
PH
3832PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3833 ${stat: expansion item.
3834
3af76a81
PH
3835PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3836 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3837
2548ba04
PH
3838PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3839 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3840 file for comments.
3841
b6c6011d
PH
3842PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3843
cf39cf57
PH
3844PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3845 setting.
3846
f1513293
PH
3847PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3848 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3849
727549a4
PH
3850TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3851
af46795e
PH
3852PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3853 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3854 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3855 the end of the subprocess.
3856
d7b47fd0
PH
3857PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3858 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3859 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3860 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3861 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3862
ee744174
JJ
3863JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3864
b582ab87
PH
3865TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3866
41a13e0a
PH
3867PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3868 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3869
f625cc5a
PH
3870PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3871
3872PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3873
21f7af35
PH
3874PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3875 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3876 HP-UX compiler.
3877
31480e42
PH
3878PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3879
2d280592
PH
3880PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3881 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3882 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3883
7cd1141b
PH
3884PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3885 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3886
3887PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3888 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3889
750af86e
PH
3890PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3891 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3892
3893 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3894 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3895
3896 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3897 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3898 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3899 contributed by a Radius user.
3900
3901PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3902 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3903
4304270b
TK
3904TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3905 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3906
750af86e
PH
3907PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3908 available.
3909
64ffc24f
PH
3910PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3911 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3912 received.
3913
5dd9625b
PH
3914PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3915 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3916 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3917 header lines when this was not necessary.
3918
5591031b
PH
3919PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3920
ba18e66a
PH
3921PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3922 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3923 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3924 exists".
3925
9cec981f
PH
3926PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3927 -bV or -d is used.
3928
aa2b5c79
PH
3929PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3930 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3931 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3932 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3933
48a53b7f
PH
3934PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3935
1c59d63b
PH
3936PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3937
671012da
TK
3938TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3939
1509d3a8
PH
3940PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3941
3942PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3943 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3944 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3945 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3946 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3947 settings.
3948
3949PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3950
2fe1a124
PH
3951PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3952 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3953 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3954 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3955 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3956 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3957 which is clearly wrong.
3958
8800895a
PH
3959PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3960
ccfdb010
PH
3961PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3962 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3963 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3964 subsequently added.
3965
1130bfb0
PH
3966PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3967 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3968
ebcb507f
PH
3969PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3970
c35e155c
PH
3971PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3972 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3973
95d1f782
PH
3974PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3975 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3976
fd6de02e
PH
3977PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3978 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3979
58de37c5
PH
3980PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3981 recipients, not senders.
3982
261cf466
TF
3983TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3984 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3985
3ee512ff
PH
3986PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3987
e08c430f
PH
3988PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3989
bef5a11f
PH
3990PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3991 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3992 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3993 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3994
7546de58
TF
3995TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3996
e5d5a95f
TF
3997TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3998 clock is set back in time.
3999
2e88a017
TF
4000TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4001 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4002
a5f65aa4
TF
4003TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4004 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4005
e7726cbf
PH
4006PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4007 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4008 (see PH/47 above).
4009
a7fdad5b
TF
4010TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4011 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4012 header rewrites.
4013
6af56900
PH
4014PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4015 type ("H").
4016
0925ede6
PH
4017PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4018
66afa403
TF
4019TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4020 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4021 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4022
0154e85a
TF
4023TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4024 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4025 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4026 helo verification defer as a failure.
4027
16f12c76
PH
4028PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4029 actual error message.
4030
bbe902f0 4031
e5a9dba6
PH
4032Exim version 4.52
4033-----------------
4034
4035TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4036
22c3b60b
PH
4037PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4038 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4039 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4040 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4041
06a9b4b5
PH
4042TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4043
c1ac6996
PH
4044PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4045 can still be requested.
4046
9c7a242c
PH
4047PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4048 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4049 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4050 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4051
87ba3f5f
PH
4052TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4053 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4054 circumstances, but probably never did.
4055
4056PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4057 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4058 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4059 in the header line.
4060
29aba418
TF
4061TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4062
fe0dab11
TF
4063TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4064 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4065
11d337a4
TK
4066TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4067
4068TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4069
415c8f3b
PH
4070PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4071 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4072 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4073 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4074 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4075 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4076
958541e9
PH
4077PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4078 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4079 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4080 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4081 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4082 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4083
c206415f
TK
4084TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4085 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4086
2a4be8f9
PH
4087PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4088 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4089
1cba11c5
SC
4090SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4091 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4092
4c04137d 4093SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4094
4095SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4096
4097SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4098
4099SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4100
4101SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4102
4103SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4104
1005d00e
TK
4105TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4106
4107TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4108 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4109 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4110
4111TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4112 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4113 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4114 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4115
9b4768fa
PH
4116PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4117 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4118 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4119
4120PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4121 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4122 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4123 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4124
0d7eb84a
PH
4125PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4126 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4127 to be made).
4128
4129PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4130 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4131 should work with maildirs and everything.
4132
40727bee
TK
4133TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4134 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4135
554d2369
TF
4136TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4137 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4138
1f922db1
PH
4139PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4140 function for BDB 4.3.
4141
ef213c3b
PH
4142PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4143
8ac170f3
PH
4144PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4145 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4146 involved.
4147
b1c749bb
PH
4148PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4149 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4150 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4151 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4152 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4153 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4154
4aac9b49
PH
4155PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4156 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4157 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4158 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4159 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4160 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4161 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4162 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4163
294520c8
TK
4164TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4165 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4166 details.
4167
5bd022fe
PH
4168PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4169 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4170
90e9ce59
PH
4171PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4172 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4173 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4174 test. It is now used for both.
4175
5ea81592
PH
4176PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4177 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4178 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4179 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4180 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4181 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4182
c6c2dc1d
PH
4183PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4184 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4185 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4186 string_vformat().
4187
fffffe4c
PH
4188PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4189 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4190 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4191
9a26b6b2
PH
4192PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4193 experimental DomainKeys support:
4194
4195 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4196 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4197 the control was given.
4198
4199 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4200
4aee0225
PH
4201PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4202
32d668a5
PH
4203PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4204
8187c3f3
PH
4205PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4206 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4207 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4208 db.h files).
4209
ff790e47 4210PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4211 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4212 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4213 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4214 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4215 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4216 course.
ff790e47 4217
5417f6d1
PH
4218PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4219 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4220 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4221 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4222 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4223 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4224
59cf8544
PH
4225PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4226 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4227 do -d+all out of habit.
4228
e7ad8a65
PH
4229PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4230 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4231 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4232
ade42478
PH
4233PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4234 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4235 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4236 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4237 record types that Exim uses.
4238
182ad5cf
PH
4239PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4240 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4241 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4242 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4243 non-existent file that was broken.
4244
b0d9fc80
TK
4245TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4246 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4247
4248TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4249 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4250 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4251
4252TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4253
47c7a64a
PH
4254PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4255 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4256 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4257 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4258 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4259 same time.
4260
a388bce4
SC
4261SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4262 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4263 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4264 at a slight CPU cost.
4265
4266SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4267 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4268
4269SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4270 by Marc Sherman.
4271
0793e4ed
SC
4272SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4273
c58b88df
PH
4274PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4275 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4276
e7ad8a65 4277
7982096b
PH
4278Exim version 4.51
4279-----------------
4280
1a46a8c5
PH
4281TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4282 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4283
2f079f46 4284TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4285
4286TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4287
4288PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4289 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4290
4291PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4292 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4293 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4294 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4295 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4296 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4297 file.
4298
4299PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4300 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4301 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4302 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4303 these two options.
4304
4305PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4306 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4307 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4308 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4309 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4310 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4311 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4312 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4313
4314PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4315 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4316
4317PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4318 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4319 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4320 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4321 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4322 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4323
4324PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4325 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4326 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4327 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4328
4329PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4330 Finch).
4331
4332PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4333 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4334
49c2d5ea
PH
4335PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4336 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4337 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4338 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4339 message.
49c2d5ea 4340
bf759a8b
PH
4341PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4342
83364d30
PH
4343PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4344 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4345
7999bbd7
PH
4346PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4347 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4348 to what was transported.)
4349
7dbf77c9
PH
4350TF/01 Added $received_time.
4351
74e0617f
PH
4352PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4353 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4354 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4355 spamd_address settings.
4356
2f079f46
PH
4357PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4358 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4359 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4360 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4361 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4362
8c841523
PH
4363PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4364
7766a4f0
PH
4365PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4366 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4367 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4368 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4369 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4370
8b417f2c
PH
4371PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4372 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4373
901f42cb
PH
4374PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4375 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4376 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4377 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4378 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4379 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4380 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4381 for failure.
4382
f9b9210e
PH
4383PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4384 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4385 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4386 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4387 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4388 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4389 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4390 "input=".
4391
54cdb463
PH
4392PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4393
cf00dad6
PH
4394PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4395 driver and ACL definitions.
4396
acb1b346
PH
4397PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4398 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4399
c5ddb310
PH
4400PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4401 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4402 understands it better than I do:
4403
4404 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4405 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4406
4407 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4408 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4409 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4410 => three warnings about OTP not working
4411 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4412
4413 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4414 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4415 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4416 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4417 for each call.)
4418 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4419 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4420
4421 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4422 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4423 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4424
31619da6
PH
4425PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4426 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4427 specified.
4428
bebaf0fc
PH
4429PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4430 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4431 "Linux".
4432
475fe28a
PH
4433PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4434 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4435 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4436
4437 warn !verify = sender
4438 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4439
4440 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4441 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4442
7e8bec7a
PH
4443PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4444
4445 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4446 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4447
4448 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4449 nomenclature these days.)
4450
e4a89c47
PH
4451PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4452 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4453
5ca2a9a1
PH
4454PH/30 In these circumstances:
4455 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4456 . First host does not offer TLS;
4457 . First host accepts first address;
4458 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4459 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4460 . Second host accepts second address.
4461 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4462 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4463 address.
7e8bec7a 4464
c688b954
PH
4465PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4466 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4467 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4468 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4469 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4470
fed77020
PH
4471PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4472 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4473
7fe1560f
PH
4474PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4475 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4476
ebb6e6d5
PH
4477PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4478 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4479 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4480
9c4e8f60
PH
4481PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4482 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4483 overlooked.
4484
4485PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4486
d7174846
PH
4487PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4488 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4489 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4490 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4491 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4492 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4493 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4494
4495 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4496 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4497 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4498 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4499 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4500
4501 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4502 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4503 routed further.
4504
cfe75fc3
PH
4505PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4506 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4507 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4508 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4509 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4510 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4511
be22d70e
PH
4512PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4513
0612b098
PH
4514PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4515 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4516 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4517 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4518 printable escape sequences.
4519
2e0c1448
PH
4520PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4521 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4522 body only.
4523
447d236c
PH
4524PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4525 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4526 are as follows:
4527
4528 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4529 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4530 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4531 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4532 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4533
4534 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4535 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4536 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4537
d20976dc
PH
4538PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4539
f656d135
PH
4540PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4541 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4542 play with."
4543
2e2a30b4
PH
4544PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4545 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4546 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4547 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4548 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4549 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4550 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4551 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4552 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4553 the log output.
4554
9176e9f0
PH
4555PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4556 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4557 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4558 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4559 "make".
4560
7982096b 4561
bbe902f0
PH
4562A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4563----------------------------------------
4564
4565Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4566changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4567needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4568in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4569that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4570release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4571from 4.43.
4572
4573I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45744.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4575those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4576historical information.
4577
4578
f7b63901 4579Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4580-----------------
4581
5fe762f6
PH
4582 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4583
139059f6 4584 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4585 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4586
7086e875
PH
4587 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4588 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4589 place.
4590
35af9f61
PH
4591 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4592 filter fails to execute.
4593
b668c215
PH
4594 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4595 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4596 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4597 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4598 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4599
a494b1e1
PH
4600 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4601
4602 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4603 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4604 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4605 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4606
c5fcb476
PH
4607 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4608 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4609 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4610 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4611 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4612
69358f02
PH
4613 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4614
5be20824
PH
461510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4616
eb2c0248
PH
461711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4618 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4619 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4620 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4621
2a3eea10
PH
462212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4623 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4624 sender verification.
4625
462613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4627 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4628
23c7ff99
PH
462914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4630
4deaf07d
PH
463115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4632 connection timeout.
4633
926e1192
PH
463416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4635 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4636
650edc6f
PH
463717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4638 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4639
2c7db3f5
PH
464018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4641 information about exactly what failed.
4642
3d235903
PH
464319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4644
7c7ad977
PH
464520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4646 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4647 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4648
981756db
PH
464921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4650 It is now set to "smtps".
4651
d4eb88df
PH
465222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4653 ignore_target_hosts.
4654
465523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4656 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4657 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4658 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4659 "[x.x.x.x]".
4660
7d468ab8
PH
466124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4662 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4663 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4664
466525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4666 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4667 wake it up if nothing else does.
4668
62c0818f
PH
466926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4670 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4671 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4672 end up negative.
4673
26034054
PH
467427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4675 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4676
af66f652
PH
467728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4678
90af77f4
PH
467929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4680 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4681 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4682 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4683 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4684 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4685 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4686 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4687
d8ef3577
PH
468830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4689 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4690 than one IP address.
4691
5cb8cbc6
PH
469231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4693 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4694 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4695 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4696
14702f5b
PH
469732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4698 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4699 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4700 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4701 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4702 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4703
063b1e99
PH
470433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4705 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4706 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4707 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4708
652e1b65
PH
470934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4710 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4711 respected.
4712
6f0c9a4f
PH
471335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4714 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4715 $sender_host_address.
4716
33397d19
PH
471736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4718 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4719 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4720 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4721 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4722 very small.
4723
7bb56e1f
PH
472437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4725
4726 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4727 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4728
ea3bc19b
PH
4729 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4730 just the host names, not the priorities.
4731
4732 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4733 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4734 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4735
ea3bc19b 4736 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4737 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4738
0bcb2a0e
PH
473938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4740 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4741 domain.
4742
2ac0e484
PH
474339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4744
4e1fde53
PH
474540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4746 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4747
de365ded
PH
474841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4749 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4750 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4751
f05da2e8
PH
475242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4753
d6453af2
PH
475443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4755
f7b63901
PH
475644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4757
475845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4759 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4760 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4761 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4762 because the tests only now provoked it.
4763
a444213a
PH
476446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4765 (this can affect the format of dates).
4766
0ec020ea
PH
476747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4768 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4769 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4770 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4771
b1206957
PH
477248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4773
477449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4775 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4776 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4777 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4778
26dd5a95
PH
477950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4780 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4781 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4782
343b2385
PH
478351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4784 autoreply.
4785
1c5466b9
PH
478652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4787 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4788 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4789 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4790 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4791 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4792 is going on).
4793
55ee9ee3
PH
479453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4795 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4796 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4797 the line.
4798
d38f8232
PH
479954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4800 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4801 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4802
4803 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4804 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4805 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4806 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4807 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4808 so I produce this patch..."
4809
3295e65b
PH
4810 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4811 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4812 is not defined.
4813
7102e136
PH
481455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4815 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4816 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4817 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4818 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4819
3ca0ba97
PH
482056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4821
c2bcbe20
PH
482257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4823 long debug lines gets shown.
4824
18ce445d
PH
482558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4826 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4827
1f5b4c3d
PH
482859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4829
4830 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4831 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4832 of $primary_hostname.
4833
b975ba52
PH
483460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4835 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4836 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4837 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4838 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4839 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4840 by change 4.50/55 above.
4841
4842 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4843 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4844 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4845 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4846 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4847 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4848 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4849
485061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4851 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4852 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4853 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4854
17ffcae7
PH
485562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4856 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4857
d95f9fdb
PH
485863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4859 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4860 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4861 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4862 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4863
86b8287f
PH
486464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4865 This has been fixed.
4866
60dc5e56
PH
486765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4868 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4869 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4870 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4871 the caching.)
4872
533244af
PH
487366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4874
a5a28604
PH
487567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4876 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4877 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4878 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4879
7e634d24
PH
488068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4881 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4882
3e11c26b
PH
488369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4884 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4885 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4886
6729cf78
PH
488770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4888 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4889 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4890 message there.
4891
00f00ca5
PH
489271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4893 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4894 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4895
c9bdd01c
PH
489672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4897 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4898 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4899 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4900
d43194df
PH
490173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4902 during host lookups.
4903
fe5b5d0b
PH
490474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4905 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4906
4907 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4908
76a2d7ba
PH
490975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4910 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4911 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4912 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4913 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4914 background.
4915
491676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4917 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4918
04f7d5b9
PH
491977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4920 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4921 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4922
bc60667e
PH
492378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4924
bb6e88ff
PH
492579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4926 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4927 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4928 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4929 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4930 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4931 process earlier.
4932
1e70f85b
PH
493380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4934 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4935 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4936 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4937 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4938
493981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4940 tables).
4941
4e01f9d6
PH
494282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4943
1ee1cef2
PH
494483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4945 "vacation" handling.
4946
6e2b4ccc
PH
494784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4948 OS variants using glibc.
4949
8e669ac1
PH
495085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4951
495ae4b0 4952
bbe902f0
PH
4953----------------------------------------------------
4954See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4955----------------------------------------------------
4956
4957
4958Exim version 4.44
4959-----------------
4960
4961 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4962 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4963 transport
4964
4965 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4966 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4967 place.
4968
4969 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4970 filter fails to execute.
4971
4972 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4973 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4974 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4975 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4976 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4977
4978 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4979 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4980 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4981 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4982
4983 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4984 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4985 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4986 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4987 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4988
4989 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4990
4991 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4992 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4993 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4994 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4995
4996 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4997 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4998 sender verification.
4999
500010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5001 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5002
500311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5004 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5005
500612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5007 ignore_target_hosts.
5008
500913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5010 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5011 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5012 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5013 "[x.x.x.x]".
5014
501514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5016 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5017 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5018
501915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5020 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5021 wake it up if nothing else does.
5022
502316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5024 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5025 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5026 end up negative.
5027
502817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5029 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5030
ea3a6f44 503118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5032
503319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5034 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5035 empty pattern.
5036
503720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5038 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5039 one IP address.
5040
ea3a6f44
NM
504121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5042 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5043 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5044 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5045 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5046 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5047
ea3a6f44
NM
504822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5049 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5050 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5051
505223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5053 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5054 $sender_host_address.
5055
505624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5057
ea3a6f44
NM
505825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5059 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5060 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5061
506226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5063 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5064
ea3a6f44
NM
506527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5066 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5067
ea3a6f44
NM
506828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5069 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5070 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5071 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5072
507329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5074 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5075 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5076
ea3a6f44
NM
507730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5078 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5079 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5080 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5081
ea3a6f44
NM
508231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5083 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5084 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5085
ea3a6f44
NM
508631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5087 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5088
ea3a6f44
NM
508932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5090 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5091 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5092 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5093 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5094 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5095 is going on).
bbe902f0 5096
ea3a6f44
NM
509733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5098 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5099 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5100 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5101 CAN-2005-0021
5102
ea3a6f44
NM
510334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5104 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5105 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5106 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5107 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5108 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5109 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5110
5111 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5112 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5113 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5114 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5115 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5116 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5117 CAN-2005-0021
5118
ea3a6f44
NM
511935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5120 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5121 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5122 CAN-2005-0022
5123
ea3a6f44
NM
512436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5125 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5126 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5127 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5128 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5129
ea3a6f44
NM
513037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5131 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5132 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5133 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5134 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5135
ea3a6f44
NM
513638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5137 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5138 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5139 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5140 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5141
5142
495ae4b0
PH
5143Exim version 4.43
5144-----------------
5145
5146 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5147 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5148 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5149 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5150 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5151 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5152 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5153
5154 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5155 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5156 the delivery.
5157
5158 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5159
5160 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5161
5162 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5163 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5164 to local_scan().
5165
5166 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5167 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5168 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5169 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5170 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5171
5172 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5173 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5174
5175 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5176
5177 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5178
517910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5180 header_sender only.
5181
518211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5183 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5184
518512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5186 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5187 affecting debugging statements).
5188
518913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5190
519114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5192 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5193 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5194 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5195 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5196 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5197 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5198 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5199 after the received time, and all would be well.
5200
520115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5202 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5203 condition in an expansion string.
5204
520516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5206
520717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5208 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5209 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5210 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5211 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5212 job under whatever limits there are.
5213
521418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5215
521619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5217 space).
5218
521920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5220 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5221 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5222 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5223 return path is set.
5224
522521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5226 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5227 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5228 binary data in such strings.
5229
523022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5231
523223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5233 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5234 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5235 failure, which is pointless.
5236
523724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5238
523925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5240
524126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5242 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5243 Sender: header lines.
5244
524527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5246 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5247 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5248
524928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5250 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5251 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5252 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5253 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5254 happens.
5255
525629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5257 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5258 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5259 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5260 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5261
526230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5263 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5264 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5265 1024.
5266
526731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5268 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5269
527032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5271 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5272
527333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5274
527532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5276
527733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5278
527934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5280 syntax error.
5281
528235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5283
528436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5285
528637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5287 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5288 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5289 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5290
529138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5292 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5293
5294
5295Exim version 4.42
5296-----------------
5297
5298 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5299 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5300 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5301 it was not quoted.
5302 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5303 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5304 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5305 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5306 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5307 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5308
5309 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5310 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5311 verification failure".
5312
5313 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5314 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5315 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5316 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5317
5318 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5319 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5320 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5321 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5322 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5323 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5324 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5325 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5326 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5327 treated as a timeout.
5328
5329 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5330 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5331 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5332 not set for Exim filters).
5333
5334 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5335 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5336 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5337
5338 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5339
5340 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5341 try to make them clearer.
5342
5343 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5344 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5345
5346 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5347
5348 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5349
535010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5351 only the Cygwin environment.
5352
535311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5354 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5355 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5356 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5357 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5358
535912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5360 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5361 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5362 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5363 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5364 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5365 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5366
536713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5368 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5369
537014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5371
5372 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5373 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5374 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5375
5376 To: susanne@some.where
5377
5378 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5379 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5380 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5381 of addresses in From: header lines).
5382
5383 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5384 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5385 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5386
5387 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5388 treated as non-personal.
5389
5390 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5391 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5392
539315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5394
539516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5396
539717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5398 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5399 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5400
540118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5402 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5403
540419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5405 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5406 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5407 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5408 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5409 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5410
541120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5412 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5413 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5414 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5415 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5416 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5417 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5418 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5419
5420 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5421
542221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5423 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5424
542522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5426 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5427 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5428
542923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5430 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5431
543224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5433 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5434 rather than long int.
5435
543625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5437
543826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5439
5440
5441Exim version 4.41
5442-----------------
5443
5444 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5445 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5446 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5447 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5448 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5449 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5450
5451
5452Exim version 4.40
5453-----------------
5454
5455 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5456 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5457
5458 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5459 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5460 socklen_t is defined.
5461
5462 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5463 always exist.
5464
5465 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5466 configured.
5467
5468 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5469 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5470 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5471 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5472 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5473
5474 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5475 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5476 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5477 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5478
5479 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5480 of flapping under certain conditions.
5481
5482 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5483 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5484 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5485
5486 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5487
548810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5489
549011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5491 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5492 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5493 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5494
549512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5496 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5497 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5498 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5499 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5500 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5501 preserved with the message after it was received.
5502
550313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5504 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5505 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5506 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5507 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5508 test suite worked just fine.
5509
551014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5511 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5512 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5513
551415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5515 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5516 string.
5517
551816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5519 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5520 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5521 does not fully solve it.
5522
552317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5524 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5525 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5526 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5527 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5528
552918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5530 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5531 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5532
553319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5534 string, for example:
5535
5536 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5537
5538 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5539 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5540 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5541 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5542 the routers could not see them.
5543
554420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5545 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5546
554721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5548 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5549 output).
5550
555122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5552 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5553 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5554 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5555 that needed quoting.
5556
555723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5558 was not being matched caselessly.
5559
556024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5561 backslashes.
5562
556325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5564 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5565 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5566 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5567 when use_sender is false.
5568
556926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5570
557127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5572
557328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5574
557529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5576 the configuration file.
5577
557830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5579 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5580
558131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5582
558332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5584 bytes in the message body.
5585
558633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5587 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5588 delivery.
5589
559034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5591
559235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5593
559436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5595 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5596 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5597 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5598 another IP address.
5599
5600
5601Exim version 4.34
5602-----------------
5603
5604 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5605 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5606
5607 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5608 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5609 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5610 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5611 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5612
5613 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5614 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5615
5616 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5617 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5618 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5619
5620 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5621 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5622 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5623
5624 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5625 for routers.
5626
5627 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5628 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5629 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5630 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5631 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5632 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5633 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5634
5635
5636Exim version 4.33
5637-----------------
5638
5639 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5640 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5641 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5642 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5643 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5644 default (and expected) setting.
5645
5646 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5647 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5648 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5649 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5650
5651 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5652 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5653
5654 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5655 in domain lists.
5656
5657 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5658 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5659 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5660 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5661 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5662 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5663
5664 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5665 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5666 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5667
5668 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5669 part (NOT match_host).
5670
5671 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5672
5673 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5674 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5675 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5676 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5677 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5678 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5679 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5680 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5681 the same named file.
5682
568310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5684 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5685 when Exim is built.
5686
568711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5688 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5689 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5690 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5691 a host name.
5692
569312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5694 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5695 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5696
569713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5698
569914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5700
570115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5702
570316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5704 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5705
570617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5707 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5708 before starting the TLS session.
5709
571018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5711
571219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5713 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5714
571520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5716 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5717 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5718 colon in the middle).
5719
5720
5721Exim version 4.32
5722-----------------
5723
5724 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5725 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5726 multiple configurations are in use.
5727
5728 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5729 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5730 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5731 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5732 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5733 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5734
5735 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5736 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5737
5738 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5739 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5740 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5741
5742 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5743 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5744 occurs.
5745
5746 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5747 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5748
5749 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5750
5751 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5752 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5753
5754 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5755
5756 -prval:sval
5757
5758 is equivalent to
5759
5760 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5761
5762 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5763 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5764 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5765 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5766 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5767
576810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5769 Exim's behaviour:
5770
5771 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5772 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5773 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5774 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5775 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5776 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5777
5778 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5779 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5780 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5781 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5782 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5783 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5784 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5785 string.
5786
5787 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5788 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5789 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5790 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5791 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5792
579311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5794
579512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5796 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5797 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5798
579913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5800
580114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5802 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5803 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5804 information.
5805
580615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5807 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5808
580916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5810 Three changes have been made:
5811
5812 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5813 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5814 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5815 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5816 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5817
5818 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5819 been restored.
5820
5821 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5822 the modified behaviour.
5823
5824
5825Exim version 4.31
5826-----------------
5827
5828 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5829 Larry Rosenman.
5830
5831 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5832 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5833
5834 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5835 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5836 try to track down a specific problem.
5837
5838 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5839 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5840 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5841
5842 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5843 warning.
5844
5845 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5846 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5847 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5848 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5849 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5850 some earlier ones do not.
5851
5852 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5853
5854 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5855 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5856 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5857 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5858 address literals are enabled, of course).
5859
5860 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5861
586210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5863 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5864 by a command such as
5865
5866 exim -f "" ...
5867
5868 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5869
587011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5871
587212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5873 remained set. It is now erased.
5874
587513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5876 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5877
587814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5879 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5880 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5881 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5882 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5883 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5884 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5885 appropriate error code.
5886
588715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5888 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5889 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5890 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5891 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5892 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5893
589416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5895 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5896 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5897
589817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5899 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5900 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5901 terminate the header.
5902
590318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5904 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5905 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5906
590719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5908 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5909 (4.30/29). In particular:
5910
5911 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5912 imposed.
5913
5914 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5915 to write a maildirsize file.
5916
5917 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5918 the transport, the new value overrides.
5919
5920 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5921 count.
5922
592320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5924 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5925 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5926 space or a tab.
5927
592821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5929 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5930 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5931 the fallback hosts.
5932
593322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5934 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5935 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5936
593723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5938 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5939 using a union.
5940
594124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5942 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5943 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5944
594525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5946
594726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5948
594927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5950
595128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5952 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5953 become corrupted.
5954
595529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5956 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5957 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5958 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5959 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5960 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5961 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5962 too great.
5963
596430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5965 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5966 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5967 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5968 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5969 incorrectly.
5970
597131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5972 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5973 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5974 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5975 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5976 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5977 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5978 cached value only when the same options are set.
5979
598032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5981
598233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5983 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5984 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5985 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5986 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5987
598834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5989 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5990 it is clearly obsolete.
5991
599235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5993 transport.
5994
599536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5996 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5997 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5998 times.
5999
600037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6001 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6002 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6003 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6004 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6005
600638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6007 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6008 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6009 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6010
601139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6012
6013 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6014
6015 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6016 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6017 2^31.
6018
601940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6020 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6021 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6022 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6023 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6024 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6025 $localpart_data.
6026
602741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6028 with the -f command-line option.
6029
603042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6031 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6032 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6033 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6034 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6035 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6036
603743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6038 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6039 line.
6040
604144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6042 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6043 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6044 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6045 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6046 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6047 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6048 buffer is too small.
6049
605045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6051 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6052
605346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6054 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6055 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6056 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6057 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6058 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6059 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6060 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6061 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6062
606347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6064 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6065 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6066
606748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6068 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6069 ACL").
6070
607149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6072 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6073 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6074 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6075 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6076
607750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6078 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6079 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6080 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6081 is set.
6082
608351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6084
608552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6086
608753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6088 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6089
609054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6091 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6092 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6093
609455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6095 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6096 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6097 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6098 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6099
610056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6101 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6102 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6103 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6104 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6105 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6106 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6107
610857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6109 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6110 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6111 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6112 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6113 the test of how many are available.
6114
611558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6116 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6117 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6118 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6119 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6120 new message is started.
6121
612259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6123 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6124
612560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6126 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6127
612861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6129 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6130 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6131 is no long logged.
6132
613362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6134 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6135 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6136 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6137 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6138 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6139 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6140
614163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6142 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6143 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6144 interpreted as octal.
6145
614664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6147 setting.
6148
614965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6150 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6151 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6152 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6153 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6154 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6155
615666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6157 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6158 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6159 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6160
6161 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6162 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6163 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6164 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6165
6166 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6167 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6168 is a bug fix.
6169
6170 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6171 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6172
617367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6174
617568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6176 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6177 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6178 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6179
618069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6181 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6182 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6183 supplied", which is not helpful.
6184
618570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6186 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6187 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6188
618971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6190 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6191 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6192 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6193 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6194 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6195 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6196 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6197
619872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6199 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6200 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6201 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6202 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6203
620473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6205 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6206 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6207 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6208 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6209 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6210
621174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6212 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6213 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6214
621575. Added write_rejectlog option.
6216
621776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6218 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6219 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6220 variables.
6221
622277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6223
622478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6225 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6226 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6227 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6228 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6229 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6230 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6231 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6232
623379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6234 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6235 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6236 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6237 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6238
623980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6240 Haardt.
6241
624281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6243 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6244 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6245 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6246 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6247 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6248 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6249 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6250 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6251
6252
6253Exim version 4.30
6254-----------------
6255
6256 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6257 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6258 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6259
6260 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6261 fixed.
6262
6263 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6264 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6265 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6266
6267 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6268 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6269 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6270 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6271 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6272 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6273
6274 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6275 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6276 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6277 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6278 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6279 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6280 the Exim test suite.
6281
6282 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6283 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6284 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6285 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6286
6287 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6288 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6289 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6290 specify it in this variable.
6291
6292 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6293 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6294 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6295 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6296
6297 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6298 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6299 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6300 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6301
6302 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6303 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6304 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6305 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6306 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6307
6308 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6309
631010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6311 they are logged.
6312
631311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6314 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6315 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6316 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6317 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6318
631912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6320 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6321
632213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6323 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6324 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6325 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6326 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6327
632814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6329 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6330
633115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6332 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6333 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6334
633516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6336 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6337
633817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6339 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6340
634118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6342 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6343 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6344
634519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6346 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6347
634820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6349 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6350 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6351 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6352
635321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6354
635522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6356 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6357 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6358 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6359
636023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6361
636224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6363 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6364
636525. Added .include_if_exists.
6366
636726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6368 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6369 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6370 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6371 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6372 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6373
637427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6375
637628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6377 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6378 this.
6379
638029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6381
638230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6383 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6384
6385 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6386 550 Sender verify failed
6387
6388 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6389 the final line of the response.
6390
639131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6392 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6393 all other user lookups.
6394
639532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6396 delivery time.
6397
639833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6399 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6400 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6401 result into an int without checking.
6402
640334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6404 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6405 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6406
640735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6408 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6409 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6410 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6411
641236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6413 correctly.
6414
641537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6416 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6417
641838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6419 to the empty sender.
6420
642139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6422 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6423 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6424 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6425 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6426 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6427 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6428 panic log.
6429
643040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6431 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6432 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6433 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6434 used.
6435
643641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6437 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6438
643942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6440 timestamps.
6441
644243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6443 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6444
644544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6446
644745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6448 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6449 logs.
6450
645146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6452 as soon as it is encountered.
6453
645447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6455
645648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6457 rewritten to "<>".
6458
645949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6460 recognizes a tab character.
6461
646250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6463 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6464 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6465 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6466
646751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6468
646952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6470 crash.
6471
647253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6473
647454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6475
647655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6477 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6478 2822.
6479
648056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6481 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6482 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6483 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6484 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6485
648657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6487 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6488
648958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6490 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6491 list (.included file names were always shown).
6492
649359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6494 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6495 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6496 root at that time.
6497
649860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6499 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6500
650161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6502
650362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6504
650563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6506
650764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6508 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6509 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6510 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6511 failures to open the logs.
6512
651365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6514 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6515 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6516 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6517 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6518 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6519 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6520
6521
6522Exim version 4.24
6523-----------------
6524
6525 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6526 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6527 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6528 change 4.23/1.
6529
6530 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6531 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6532 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6533
6534 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6535 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6536 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6537
6538 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6539 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6540 causing some misleading effects.
6541
6542 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6543 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6544 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6545
6546 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6547 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6548 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6549 queue-runner function directly.
6550
6551
6552Exim version 4.23
6553-----------------
6554
6555 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6556 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6557
6558 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6559 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6560 was always written to the default place.
6561
6562 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6563 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6564 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6565
6566 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6567
6568 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6569
6570 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6571 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6572 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6573
6574 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6575 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6576 must start.
6577
6578 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6579 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6580 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6581
6582 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6583 command line option is disabled.
6584
6585 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6586 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6587
6588 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6589
6590 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6591
6592 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6593 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6594
659510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6596
659711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6598 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6599 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6600 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6601 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6602 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6603
660412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6605 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6606 timeout.
6607
660813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6609 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6610
661114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6612 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6613
661415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6615 received was valid base64.
6616
661716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6618 name of the variable that was being set.
6619
662017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6621
662218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6623 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6624 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6625 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6626 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6627 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6628
662919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6630
663120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6632 nor realm was specified.
6633
663421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6635 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6636 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6637 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6638
663922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6640 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6641 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6642
664323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6644 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6645 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6646
664724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6648 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6649 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6650 some systems use these upper case variants.
6651
665225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6653 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6654 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6655 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6656
665726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6658
665927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6660 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6661
666228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6663 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6664 expansion variable.
6665
666629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6667
666830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6669 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6670 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6671 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6672
667331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6674 using it.
6675
667632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6677 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6678 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6679
668033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6681 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6682
668334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6684 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6685 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6686 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6687
668835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6689 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6690 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6691
669236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6693
669437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6695 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6696 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6697 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6698 aborted.
6699
670038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6701 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6702 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6703
670439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6705
670640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6707 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6708
670941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6710 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6711
671242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6713 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6714 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6715 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6716 when emails are that large.
6717
6718
6719
6720Exim version 4.22
6721-----------------
6722
6723 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6724 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6725
6726 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6727 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6728 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6729
6730 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6731 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6732 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6733
6734 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6735 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6736 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6737 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6738 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6739
6740 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6741 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6742 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6743 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6744 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6745 ever.
6746
6747 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6748 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6749 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6750 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6751 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6752 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6753 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6754 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6755 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6756 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6757 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6758 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6759 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6760 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6761
6762 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6763 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6764 parameterised it.
6765
6766 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6767 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6768 error should be diagnosed.
6769
6770 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6771 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6772 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6773 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6774 appeared instead of "NULL".
6775
677610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6777 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6778 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6779 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6780 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6781 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6782 proceeds).
6783
6784 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6785 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6786 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6787
6788
6789Exim version 4.21
6790-----------------
6791
6792 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6793 or receiver verification errors.
6794
6795 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6796 name.
6797
6798 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6799 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6800 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6801 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6802
6803 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6804 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6805 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6806 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6807 shouldn't happen again.
6808
6809 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6810 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6811 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6812
6813 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6814 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6815
6816 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6817
6818 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6819 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6820
6821 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6822 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6823 RFC.
6824
682510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6826 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6827 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6828
682911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6830 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6831 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6832 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6833
683412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6835 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6836 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6837 to define what should happen).
6838
683913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6840 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6841 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6842
684314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6844
684515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6846
684716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6848 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6849
4c04137d 685017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6851 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6852 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6853 structure in all cases.
6854
6855 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6856 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6857 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6858 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6859
686018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6861 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6862 domain name.
6863
686419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6865 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6866
686720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6868 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6869
687021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6871 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6872 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6873
687422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6875 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6876 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6877
687823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6879 the book and for uniformity.
6880
688124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6882
688325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6884 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6885 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6886 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6887 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6888 non-existent command as the problem.
6889
689026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6891 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6892 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6893
689427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6895
689628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6897 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6898 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6899
690029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6901 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6902 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6903 timestamps using strftime().
6904
690530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6906 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6907
690832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6909 transport-time rewrites.
6910
691133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6912 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6913 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6914 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6915
691634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6917 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6918
691935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6920 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6921 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6922 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6923 comma and a space.
6924
692536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6926 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6927 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6928 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6929 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6930 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6931 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6932
693337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6934 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6935 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6936 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6937 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6938
693938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6940 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6941 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6942 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6943 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6944 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6945 remaining text gets split now.
6946
694739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6948 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6949 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6950 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6951
695240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6953 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6954 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6955 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6956 $return_path.
6957
695841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6959 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6960 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6961 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6962 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6963 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6964 passed through if needed.
6965
696642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6967 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6968 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6969 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6970 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6971 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6972
697343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6974 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6975 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6976 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6977 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6978
697944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6980 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6981 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6982 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6983 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6984
698545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6986 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6987 noticed.
6988
698946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6990 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6991 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6992 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6993 mayhem of various kinds.
6994
699547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6996 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6997 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6998 the right test for positive values.
6999
700048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7001 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7002 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7003 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7004 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7005 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7006 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7007 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7008 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7009 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7010 envelope.
7011
701249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7013 module.
7014
701550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7016 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7017 forbidding it.
7018
701951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7020 the existing equality matching.
7021
702252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7023 dealing with inode numbers.
7024
702553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7026 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7027 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7028
702954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7030 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7031 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7032 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7033 local_scan().
7034
703555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7036 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7037 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7038 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7039 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7040 relay addresses has also been removed.
7041
704256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7043
704457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7045 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7046 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7047
704858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7049 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7050 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7051 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7052 processing applies to CR:
7053
7054 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7055 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7056
7057 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7058 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7059 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7060 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7061
706259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7063 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7064 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7065
706660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7067 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7068 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7069 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7070 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7071 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7072 arisen.
7073
707461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7075 program routers.
7076
707762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7078 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7079 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7080 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7081 adds:
7082
7083 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7084
7085 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7086
7087 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7088
708963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7090 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7091 not considered personal.
7092
709364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7094
709565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7096
709766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7098
709967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7100 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7101 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7102 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7103 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7104 header lines, and spool format errors.
7105
710668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7107 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7108 for more flexibility.
7109
711069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7111 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7112 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7113
711470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7115 Sabourenkov.
7116
711771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7118 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7119 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7120 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7121 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7122 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7123 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7124 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7125 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7126
712772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7128 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7129 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7130 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7131 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7132 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7133 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7134
713573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7136 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7137 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7138
713974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7140 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7141 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7142 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7143 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7144 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7145 instead of killing the process with assert().
7146
714775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7148 than Unicode encoding.
7149
715076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7151 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7152 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7153 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7154
715577. Added process_log_path.
7156
715778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7158 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7159
716079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7161 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7162
716380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7164 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7165 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7166
716781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7168 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7169 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7170 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7171 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7172 were applied:
7173
7174 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7175 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7176 as invalid.
7177
717882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7179 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7180 they will be used during message reception.
7181
7182
7183Exim version 4.20
7184-----------------
7185
7186The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7187
7188****