Null initialise DKIM variable. Fixes: #986
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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.72
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8
9JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength, $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and typos
10
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11JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue (Finput)
12
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13NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
14 Patch from Alain Williams
15
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16NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
17
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18NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
19 Patch from Andreas Metzler
20
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21NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
22 Patch from Kirill Miazine
23
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24NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
25
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26JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
27
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28NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
29 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg
30
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31TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
32
33TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
34
35MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
36 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
37 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
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39NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
40 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
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43Exim version 4.71
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45
46TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body
47
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48NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
49
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50NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
51
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52NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
53
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54NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
55
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57Exim version 4.70
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59
cdd3bb85 60TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 61 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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62
63TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
64 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
65 Hirsch)
66
67TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
68 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 69 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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71TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
72 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
73
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74NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
75 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
76 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
77 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
78
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79NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
80 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
81 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine
82
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83TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
84
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85TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
86
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87NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
88 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima
89
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90NM/04 Bugzilla 667: close socket used by dovecot authenticator
91
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92TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
93 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
94 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
95 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
96
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97NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
98 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt
99
23510047 100TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 101
7d8eec3a 102NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000
5f28a6e8 103
7d8eec3a 104NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
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105 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki
106
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107TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
108 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 109
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110TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
111 that they are available at delivery time.
112
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113TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
114
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115TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
116 incoming_port log selectors.
117
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118TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
119 setting expands to an empty string.
120
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121NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
122 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
123
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124NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
125 Patch provided by Richard Godbee
126
4f054c63 127NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 128 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 129
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130NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format
131 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak
132
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133NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to accept()
134 Patch provided by Maxim Dounin
135
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136NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
137 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
138
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139NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
140
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141NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
142 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch
143
d5c39246 144NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
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145 Patch provided by Dean Brooks
146
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147TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
148
8f3414a1 149NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
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150 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler
151
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152NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
153
154NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 155
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156NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in lsearch
157
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158NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting
159 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
160
161NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support
162 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
36f12725 163
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164NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken clients
165 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
166
7496b417 167NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date
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168 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch
169
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170NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats
171 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann
172
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173NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid
174 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann
175
f4cd9433 176NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file
1da77999 177 plus update to original patch.
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178
179NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit
dc988b7e 180
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181NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection
182 Patch provided by David Brownlee
183
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184NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging
185
186NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes
ec5a421b 187
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188NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes
189
0cc09577 190NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix
51473862 191
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192NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
193 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree
194
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195NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix
196 Patch by Todd Rinaldo
197
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198NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches
199 Patch by Serge Demonchaux
200
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201NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes
202 Patch by Jakob Hirsch
203
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204NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code
205
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206NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling
207
208NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed
96535b98 209
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210NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script
211
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213Exim version 4.69
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216TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
217 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
218 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
219
220 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
221 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
222 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
223 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
224 build errors in sieve.c.
225
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226NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
227 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
228 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
229
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230SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
231
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232NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr
233
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234NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp
235
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236NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall)
237
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239Exim version 4.68
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241
242PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
243
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244PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
245 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
246 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
247 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
248 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
249 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
250 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
251 for iplsearch lookups.
252
253 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
254 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
255 previously such lookups could never work.
256
257 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
258 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
259 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
260
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261TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
262 version.
263
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264MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
265 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
266 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
267 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
268 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
269 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
270
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271TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
272 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
273
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274MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
275 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
276 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
277 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
278 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
279 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
280
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281PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
282 local_scan API.
283
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284PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
285
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286PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
287 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
288 encrypted.
289
290PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
291 by clients under certain conditions.
292
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293PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
294 "_responses" off the end of the name.
295
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296PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
297
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298PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
299 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
300
301PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
302
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303PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
304
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305PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
306
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307PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
308 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
309
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310PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
311
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312PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
313 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
314
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315PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
316
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317PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
318
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319PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
320 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
321 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
322 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 323
ddea74fa 324PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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325 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
326 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
327
ddea74fa 328PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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329 and InterBase are left for another time.)
330
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331PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
332
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333PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
334
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335PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
336
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337PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
338 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
339 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
340
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342Exim version 4.67
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344
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345MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
346 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
347 Jan Srzednicki.
348
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349PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
350 issue a MAIL command.
351
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352PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
353
354 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
355
356 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
357 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
358 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
359 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
360 item. This has been fixed.
361
362PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
363 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
364
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365PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
366 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
367
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368PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
369 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
370 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
371
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372SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
373
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374PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
375 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
376 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
377 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
378 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
379
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380MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
381 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
382 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
383
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384PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
385 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
386 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
387 the server_setid option was incorrect.
388
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389PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
390
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391PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
392
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393PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
394 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
395 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
396 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
397 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
398
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399PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
400
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401PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
402 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
403 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
404 values).
405
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406PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
407
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408PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
409
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410PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
411
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412PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
413
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414PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
415
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416PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
417 no_callout_flush is set.
418
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419PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
420 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
421 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
422 fixed.
423
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424PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
425
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426PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
427 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
428 other ACL rejections are.
429
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430PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
431 with slight modification.
432
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433PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
434 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
435
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436PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
437 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
438 connection.
439
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440PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
441 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
442
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443SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
444
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445PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
446 expansion side effects.
447
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448PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
449 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
450 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
451 be the same.
452
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453MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
454 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
455 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
456
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457PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
458 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
459 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
460 were accidentally chopped off.
461
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462PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
463 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
464 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
465 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
466 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
467 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
468 pipelining has not been advertised.
469
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470PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
471
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472PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
473 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
474 This has been fixed.
475
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476PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
477 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
478 reported on Solaris.
479
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480PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
481 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
482 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
483 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
484 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
485 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
486 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
487
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488PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
489 cpus.
490
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491PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
492
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493PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
494
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495PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
496 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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497 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
498 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
499 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
500 criteria to be more general.
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502PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
503 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
504 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
505 host_all_ignored option.
506
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507PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
508 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
509 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
510 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
511 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
512 is what is supposed to happen).
513
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514PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
515 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
516 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
517 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
518 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
519 uses the Exim user.
520
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521PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
522 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
523 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
524 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
525 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
526 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
527 users.
528
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529PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
530
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531SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
532 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
533 (Jez Hancock).
534 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
535 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
536
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537SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
538
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539PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
540
58eb016e 541PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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542 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
543 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
544 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
545 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
546 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
547 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
548 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 549 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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550 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
551 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 552
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553PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
554 advertised in response to EHLO.
555
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559
560PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
561 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
562
563 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
564 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
565
566 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
567 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
568 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
569
570 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
571 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
572 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
573 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
574 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
575
576
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579
580TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
581 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
582 versions. (#438)
583
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584MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
585 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
586 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
587
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588PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
589 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
590 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
591 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
592 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
593 rather than extend the field.
594
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599TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
600 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
601 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
602 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
603 these files.
604
605TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
606 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
607 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
608
609TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
610 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
611 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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612
613TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
614 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
615 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
616 in the field name.
617
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618PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
619 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
620 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
621 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
622 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
623 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
624 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
625 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
626 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
627 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
628 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
629
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630PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
631 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
632
633PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
634 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
635 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
636 ignores EPIPE as well.
637
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638PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
639 (quoted-printable decoding).
640
cc2ed8f7 641PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 642 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 643
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644PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
645
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646PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
647
648PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
649
38a0a95f 650PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 651 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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653JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
654 in 4.64-PH/09.
655
656JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
657 miscellaneous code fixes
658
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659PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
660 rejections.
661
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662PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
663 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
664 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
665 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
666 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
667 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
668 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
669 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
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14aa5a05 671PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 672 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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673 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
674 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
675 function.
676 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
677 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
678 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
679 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
680 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
681 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
682 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
683 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
684 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
685
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686PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
687 decoding.
688
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689PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
690 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
691 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
692 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
693 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
694 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
695 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
696 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
697
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698PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
699 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
700 list.
701
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702PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
703 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
704 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
705 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
706 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
707 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
708 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
709 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
710 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
711 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
712 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
713 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
714 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
715
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716PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
717 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
718 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
719 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
720 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
721 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
722 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
723
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724PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
725 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
726 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
727 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
728 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
729 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
730 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
731 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
732 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
733 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
734
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735PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
736 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
737 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
738 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
739 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
740
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741PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
742 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
743 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
744 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
745 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
746 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
747 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
748
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749PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
750 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
751 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
752 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
753 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
754 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
755 been verified.
756
48da4259 757PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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758 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
759 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
760 and authorization.)
761
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762PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
763 if any retry times were supplied.
764
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765PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
766 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
767 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
768
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769PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
770
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771PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
772
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773PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
774 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
775 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
776 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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777 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
778 before) are ignored.
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780PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
781 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
782
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783PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
784 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
785 committing the later change.]
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786
787PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
788 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
789 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
790 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
791 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
792 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
793 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
794 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
795 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
796
797 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
798 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
799 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
800 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
801 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
802 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
803 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
804 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
805 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
806
807 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
808 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
809 hammering the server.
810
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811PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
812 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
813
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814PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
815
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816PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
817 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
818 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
819
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820PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
821 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
822 one case where this was not true.
823
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824PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
825 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
826 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
827 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
828 fails.
829
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830PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
831 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
832 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
833 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
834 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
835 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
836 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
837 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
838 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
839 smtp transport.
840
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841PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
842 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
843 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
844 same for both kinds of LMTP.
845
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846PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
847 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
848
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849PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
850 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
851 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
852
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853PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
854
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855PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
856
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857PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
858
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859PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
860 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
861 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
862 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
863
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864PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
865 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
866
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867PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
868 be meaningful with "accept".
869
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870SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
871 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
872
873SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
874 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
875 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
876
877SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
878 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
879 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
880 there is data to show.
881 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
882
883SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
884 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
885 as well as the number of messages.
886
887SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
888 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
889 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
890
891SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
892 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
893 have a flag are now skipped.
894
895SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
896 Added the -emptyok flag.
897
898SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
899 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
900
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901JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
902 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
903 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
904
905JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
906 match 4.64-PH/13
907
908JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
909 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
910
911JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
912
913JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
914 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
915
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916PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
917
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918PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
919 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
920 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
921 contravention of the specifications.
922
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923PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
924 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
925 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
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927PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
928 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
929 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
930
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931PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
932
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933MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
934 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
935 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
936 some point in the past.
937
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938PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
939 transport during callout processing was broken.
940
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941PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
942 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
943
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944PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
945 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
946
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947PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
948 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
949
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950PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
951
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955
956SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
957 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
958
959SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
960 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
961 there is data to show.
962 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
963
964SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
965 as the number of messages in eximstats.
966
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967TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
968 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
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970TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
971 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
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973TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
974 submissions from trusted users.
975
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976TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
977 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
978
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979TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
980 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
981 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
982 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
983 there is now a framework to start from.
984
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985PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
986 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
987 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
988
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989PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
990
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991PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
992
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993PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
994
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995PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
996 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
997 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
998
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999PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1000 libradius.
1001
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1002PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1003 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1004 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1005
5547e2c5
PH
1006PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1007 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1008 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1009 its arguments.
1010
dbcef0ea
PH
1011PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1012 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1013 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1014 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1015 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1016
25257489
PH
1017PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1018 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1019
c816d124
PH
1020PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1021
a9ccd69a
PH
1022PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1023 operations in malware.c.
1024
75fa1910
PH
1025PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1026 signatures.
1027
a7d7aa58
PH
1028PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1029 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1030 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1031 all.
1032
42119b09
PH
1033PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1034 statements to "add_header".
1035
41609df5
PH
1036PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1037 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1038
a5bd321b
PH
1039PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1040 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1041 latter.
1042
e85a7ad5 1043PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1044 so that it is now:
1045
e85a7ad5
PH
1046 ${if or { \
1047 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1048 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1049 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1050 }{no}{yes}}
1051
e85a7ad5
PH
1052 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1053 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1054
d8fe1c03
PH
1055PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1056 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1057
16282d2b
PH
1058PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1059 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1060 any possible encoding problems.
1061
35d40a98
PH
1062PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1063 but not after initializing Perl.
1064
034d99ab
PH
1065PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1066 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1067 apparently, which is not desirable.
1068
6ec97b1b
PH
1069PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1070 queries.
1071
e22ca4ac
JJ
1072JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1073 --not options
1074
1075JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1076
33d73e3b
PH
1077PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1078 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1079 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1080 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1081
9ecb03f3
PH
1082PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1083 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1084 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1085
084efe8d
PH
1086PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1087 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1088 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1089 0.12.
1090
366fc9f0
PH
1091PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1092 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1093 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1094 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1095 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1096
c59f5781 1097
c887c79e
TF
1098Exim version 4.62
1099-----------------
1100
1101TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1102 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1103
1cce3af8
PH
1104PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1105 patch).
1106
afb3eaaf
PH
1107PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1108 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1109 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1110 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1111 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1112 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1113 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1114 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1115 451 error is used.
1116
e173618b
PH
1117PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1118
dd16e114
PH
1119PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1120 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1121 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1122
f7fd3850
PH
1123PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1124 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1125 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1126 odd errors.
1127
d87df92c
PH
1128PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1129 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1130
7e9f683d
PH
1131PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1132 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1133 option (which defaults to 0600).
1134
bfad5236
PH
1135PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1136
01c490df
PH
1137PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1138 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1139 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1140 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1141 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1142 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1143 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1144
d6629cdc
PH
1145PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1146
1cce3af8 1147
214e2000
PH
1148Exim version 4.61
1149-----------------
1150
1151PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1152 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1153 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1154 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1155 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1156 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1157 addresses as local.
1158
f9daeae0
PH
1159PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1160 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1161
7e66e54d
PH
1162PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1163
c8ea1597
PH
1164PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1165 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1166 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1167 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1168 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1169 grumble.
1170
911f6fde
PH
1171PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1172 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1173
47ca6d6c
PH
1174PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1175 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1176 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1177 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1178 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1179
ed0e9820
PH
1180PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1181 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1182 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1183 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1184
eff37e47
PH
1185PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1186 be the same on different OS.
1187
1921d2ea
PH
1188PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1189 testing.
1190
b3f69ca8
JJ
1191JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1192 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1193
1194JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1195 in 4.61-PH/06
1196
424a1c63
PH
1197PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1198 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1199 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1200 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1201 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1202 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1203 bounce message.
1204
7a100415
PH
1205PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1206 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1207 when Exim was called.
1208
19b9dc85
PH
1209PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1210 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1211
309bd837
PH
1212PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1213 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1214 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1215 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1216
59e82a2a
PH
1217PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1218 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1219 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1220 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1221 changes:
1222
1223 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1224 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1225 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1226
1227 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1228 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1229 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1230
9edc04ce
PH
1231PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1232 feature).
1233
1349e1e5
PH
1234PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1235 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1236 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1237 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1238 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1239 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1240 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1241 values from the SRV records were lost.
1242
ea49d0e1
PH
1243PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1244 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1245 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1246
064a94c9
PH
1247PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1248 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1249 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1250
727071f8
PH
1251PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1252 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1253 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1254 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1255 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1256 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1257 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1258 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1259 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1260 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1261
f78eb7c6
PH
1262PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1263 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1264 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1265
21c28500
PH
1266PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1267 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1268
1269PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1270 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1271 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1272 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1273 is given.
1274
1688f43b
PH
1275PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1276 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1277 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1278
1279PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1280 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1281 PH/23 above applies.
1282
9675b384
PH
1283PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1284 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1285 (for which there is an explicit test).
1286
6a3f1455
PH
1287PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1288
dac79d3e
PH
1289PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1290 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1291 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1292 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1293 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1294
5977a0b3
PH
1295PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1296 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1297 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1298 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1299
c91535f3
PH
1300PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1301 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1302 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1303
0d46a8c8
PH
1304PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1305
278c6e6c
PH
1306PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1307
2cbb4081
PH
1308PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1309 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1310 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1311
3eef829e
PH
1312PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1313 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1314 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1315 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1316 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1317
1ab95fa6
PH
1318PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1319 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1320 the message gets confusing).
1321
230205fc
PH
1322PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1323 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1324 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1325 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1326
75e0e026
PH
1327PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1328 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1329 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1330 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1331 same order.
1332
1333PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1334 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1335 the different processes.
1336
145396a6
PH
1337PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1338
3cd34f13
PH
1339PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1340
11121d3d
JJ
1341JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1342 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1343
1344JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1345 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1346
1347JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1348 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1349 messages matching specified criteria.
1350
8def5aaf
PH
1351PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1352
929ba01c
PH
1353PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1354 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1355
2632889e
PH
1356PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1357 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1358 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1359 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1360 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1361 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1362 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1363 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1364 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1365 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1366
944a9c55
PH
1367PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1368 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1369 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1370
4a23603b
PH
1371PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1372
4730f942
PH
1373PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1374 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1375 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1376 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1377 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1378 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1379 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1380 the variable.
1381
30dba1e6
PH
1382PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1383 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1384
382afc6b
PH
1385PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1386
a86229cf
PH
1387PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1388
50c99ba6
PH
1389PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1390
d35e429d
PH
1391PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1392 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1393 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1394 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1395 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1396 size of the count of files.
1397
f90d018c
PH
1398PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1399
75def545
PH
1400PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1401 used in LMTP mode:
1402
1403 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1404 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1405 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1406 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1407
1408 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1409 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1410 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1411
1412PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1413 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1414 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1415 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1416 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1417
c46782ef
PH
1418PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1419 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1420
71fafd95
PH
1421PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1422 will now be deprecated.
1423
2c5db4fd
PH
1424PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1425
9cf6b11a
JJ
1426JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1427 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1428 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1429
1430JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1431 with very large, slow to parse queues
1432
1433JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1434
1435JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1436
898d150f
PH
1437PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1438 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1439 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1440 SMTP output lines.
1441
46218253
PH
1442PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1443 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1444 Sieve code now uses this.
1445
e97957bc
PH
1446PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1447 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1448
81e509d7
PH
1449PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1450 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1451
3d240ff7
PH
1452PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1453
b37c4101
PH
1454PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1455 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1456 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1457 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1458 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1459
79378e0f
PH
1460PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1461 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1462 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1463 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1464
e49c7bb4
PH
1465PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1466
d114ec46
PH
1467PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1468
f3d7df6c
PH
1469PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1470 is preferred over IPv4.
1471
715ab376
PH
1472PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1473 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1474 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1475 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1476 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1477 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1478 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1479
6b31b150
PH
1480PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1481 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1482 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1483
1484PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1485
d515a917
PH
1486PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1487 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1488 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1489 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1490 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1491 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1492 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1493 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1494 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1495 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1496 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1497
9b8fadde
PH
1498PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1499 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1500 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1501
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1503Exim version 4.60
1504-----------------
1505
cc38ddbf
PH
1506PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1507
1508 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1509 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1510
1511 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1512 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1513 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1514
72fdd6ae
PH
1515PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1516
1517 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1518 not a single digit.
1519
1520 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1521 string.
1522
1523 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1524 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1525 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1526 silly things.
1527
1528 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1529 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1530
1531 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1532 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1533
cb741023
PH
1534PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1535 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1536 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1537
f174f16e
PH
1538PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1539 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1540
c25242d7
PH
1541PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1542 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1543
1544 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1545
1546 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1547 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1548 this:
1549
1550 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1551
82c19f95
PH
1552PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1553 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1554 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1555 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1556 identical. For example:
1557
1558 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1559
1560 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1561 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1562 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1563
d7ffbc12
PH
1564PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1565 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1566 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1567 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1568
9f526266
PH
1569PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1570 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1571 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1572 message.
1573
87fcc8b9
PH
1574PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1575
1576 o fixes some comments
1577 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1578 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1579 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1580 and documents the missing references header update
1581
1582 and most important:
1583
1584 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1585 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1586 result)
1587
456682f5
PH
1588PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1589 Electronic Mail") by including:
1590
1591 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1592
1593 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1594 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1595 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1596 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1597 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1598
1599 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1600
1601 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1602
1603 The auto-replied keyword:
1604
1605 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1606 message by an automatic process,
1607
1608 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1609
1610 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1611 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1612
1613 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1614 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1615 other messages.
1616
3e46c1aa
PH
1617PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1618 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1619
49826d12
PH
1620PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1621
eba0c039
PH
1622PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1623 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1624 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1625
a0d6ba8a
PH
1626PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1627 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1628 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1629
f0917727
PH
1630PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1631 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1632 and treats the condition as false.
1633
096fee00
PH
1634PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1635
024bd3c2
PH
1636PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1637 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1638 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1639 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1640 not changing the active code.
1641
1642 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1643 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1644
1645 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1646 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1647
df199fec
PH
1648PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1649 (Bugzilla #53).
1650
d27f1df3
PH
1651PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1652 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1653 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1654 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1655 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1656 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1657 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1658 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1659 the text comparison.
1660
96776534
PH
1661PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1662 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1663 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1664 The same fix has been applied.
1665
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1667Exim version 4.54
1668-----------------
1669
1670PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1671 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1672 It now does.
1673
99a4b039
PH
1674PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1675 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1676
1677PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1678
4b233853
PH
1679PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1680 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1681 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1682 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1683 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1684
8857ccfd
PH
1685TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1686 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1687 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1688 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1689 or /domain=).
1690
433a2980
PH
1691PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1692 testing suite.
1693
3e46c1aa 1694
9a799bc0 1695
e3a311ba
TK
1696Exim version 4.53
1697-----------------
1698
1699TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1700 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1701
13b685f9
PH
1702PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1703
395ff96d
PH
1704PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1705
5b68f6e4
PH
1706PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1707 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1708 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1709
1ab52c69
PH
1710PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1711 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1712 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1713
b07e6aa3
PH
1714PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1715 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1716 operating systems.
1717
254e032f
PH
1718PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1719 ${stat: expansion item.
1720
3af76a81
PH
1721PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1722 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1723
2548ba04
PH
1724PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1725 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1726 file for comments.
1727
b6c6011d
PH
1728PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1729
cf39cf57
PH
1730PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1731 setting.
1732
f1513293
PH
1733PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1734 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1735
727549a4
PH
1736TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1737
af46795e
PH
1738PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1739 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1740 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1741 the end of the subprocess.
1742
d7b47fd0
PH
1743PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1744 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1745 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1746 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1747 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1748
ee744174
JJ
1749JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1750
b582ab87
PH
1751TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1752
41a13e0a
PH
1753PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1754 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1755
f625cc5a
PH
1756PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1757
1758PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1759
21f7af35
PH
1760PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1761 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1762 HP-UX compiler.
1763
31480e42
PH
1764PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1765
2d280592
PH
1766PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1767 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1768 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1769
7cd1141b
PH
1770PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1771 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1772
1773PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1774 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1775
750af86e
PH
1776PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1777 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1778
1779 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1780 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1781
1782 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1783 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1784 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1785 contributed by a Radius user.
1786
1787PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1788 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1789
4304270b
TK
1790TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1791 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1792
750af86e
PH
1793PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1794 available.
1795
64ffc24f
PH
1796PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1797 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1798 received.
1799
5dd9625b
PH
1800PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1801 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1802 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1803 header lines when this was not necessary.
1804
5591031b
PH
1805PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1806
ba18e66a
PH
1807PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1808 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1809 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1810 exists".
1811
9cec981f
PH
1812PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1813 -bV or -d is used.
1814
aa2b5c79
PH
1815PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1816 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1817 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1818 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1819
48a53b7f
PH
1820PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1821
1c59d63b
PH
1822PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1823
671012da
TK
1824TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1825
1509d3a8
PH
1826PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1827
1828PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1829 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1830 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1831 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1832 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1833 settings.
1834
1835PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1836
2fe1a124
PH
1837PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1838 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1839 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1840 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1841 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1842 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1843 which is clearly wrong.
1844
8800895a
PH
1845PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1846
ccfdb010
PH
1847PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1848 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1849 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1850 subsequently added.
1851
1130bfb0
PH
1852PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1853 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1854
ebcb507f
PH
1855PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1856
c35e155c
PH
1857PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1858 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1859
95d1f782
PH
1860PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1861 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1862
fd6de02e
PH
1863PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1864 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1865
58de37c5
PH
1866PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1867 recipients, not senders.
1868
261cf466
TF
1869TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1870 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1871
3ee512ff
PH
1872PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1873
e08c430f
PH
1874PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1875
bef5a11f
PH
1876PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1877 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1878 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1879 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1880
7546de58
TF
1881TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1882
e5d5a95f
TF
1883TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1884 clock is set back in time.
1885
2e88a017
TF
1886TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1887 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1888
a5f65aa4
TF
1889TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1890 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1891
e7726cbf
PH
1892PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1893 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1894 (see PH/47 above).
1895
a7fdad5b
TF
1896TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1897 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1898 header rewrites.
1899
6af56900
PH
1900PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1901 type ("H").
1902
0925ede6
PH
1903PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1904
66afa403
TF
1905TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1906 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1907 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1908
0154e85a
TF
1909TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1910 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1911 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1912 helo verification defer as a failure.
1913
16f12c76
PH
1914PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1915 actual error message.
1916
bbe902f0 1917
e5a9dba6
PH
1918Exim version 4.52
1919-----------------
1920
1921TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1922
22c3b60b
PH
1923PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1924 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1925 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1926 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1927
06a9b4b5
PH
1928TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1929
c1ac6996
PH
1930PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1931 can still be requested.
1932
9c7a242c
PH
1933PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1934 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1935 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1936 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1937
87ba3f5f
PH
1938TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1939 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1940 circumstances, but probably never did.
1941
1942PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1943 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1944 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1945 in the header line.
1946
29aba418
TF
1947TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1948
fe0dab11
TF
1949TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1950 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1951
11d337a4
TK
1952TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1953
1954TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1955
415c8f3b
PH
1956PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1957 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1958 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1959 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1960 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1961 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1962
958541e9
PH
1963PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1964 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1965 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1966 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1967 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1968 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1969
c206415f
TK
1970TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1971 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1972
2a4be8f9
PH
1973PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1974 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1975
1cba11c5
SC
1976SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1977 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1978
1979SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1980
1981SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1982
1983SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1984
1985SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1986
1987SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1988
1989SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1990
1005d00e
TK
1991TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1992
1993TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1994 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1995 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1996
1997TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1998 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1999 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2000 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2001
9b4768fa
PH
2002PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2003 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2004 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2005
2006PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2007 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2008 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2009 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2010
0d7eb84a
PH
2011PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2012 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2013 to be made).
2014
2015PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2016 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2017 should work with maildirs and everything.
2018
40727bee
TK
2019TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2020 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2021
554d2369
TF
2022TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2023 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2024
1f922db1
PH
2025PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2026 function for BDB 4.3.
2027
ef213c3b
PH
2028PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2029
8ac170f3
PH
2030PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2031 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2032 involved.
2033
b1c749bb
PH
2034PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2035 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2036 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2037 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2038 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2039 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2040
4aac9b49
PH
2041PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2042 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2043 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2044 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2045 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2046 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2047 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2048 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2049
294520c8
TK
2050TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2051 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2052 details.
2053
5bd022fe
PH
2054PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2055 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2056
90e9ce59
PH
2057PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2058 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2059 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2060 test. It is now used for both.
2061
5ea81592
PH
2062PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2063 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2064 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2065 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2066 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2067 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2068
c6c2dc1d
PH
2069PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2070 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2071 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2072 string_vformat().
2073
fffffe4c
PH
2074PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2075 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2076 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2077
9a26b6b2
PH
2078PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2079 experimental DomainKeys support:
2080
2081 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2082 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2083 the control was given.
2084
2085 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2086
4aee0225
PH
2087PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2088
32d668a5
PH
2089PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2090
8187c3f3
PH
2091PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2092 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2093 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2094 db.h files).
2095
ff790e47 2096PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2097 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2098 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2099 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2100 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2101 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2102 course.
ff790e47 2103
5417f6d1
PH
2104PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2105 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2106 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2107 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2108 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2109 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2110
59cf8544
PH
2111PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2112 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2113 do -d+all out of habit.
2114
e7ad8a65
PH
2115PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2116 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2117 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2118
ade42478
PH
2119PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2120 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2121 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2122 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2123 record types that Exim uses.
2124
182ad5cf
PH
2125PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2126 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2127 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2128 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2129 non-existent file that was broken.
2130
b0d9fc80
TK
2131TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2132 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2133
2134TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2135 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2136 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2137
2138TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2139
47c7a64a
PH
2140PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2141 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2142 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2143 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2144 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2145 same time.
2146
a388bce4
SC
2147SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2148 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2149 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2150 at a slight CPU cost.
2151
2152SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2153 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2154
2155SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2156 by Marc Sherman.
2157
0793e4ed
SC
2158SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2159
c58b88df
PH
2160PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2161 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2162
e7ad8a65 2163
7982096b
PH
2164Exim version 4.51
2165-----------------
2166
1a46a8c5
PH
2167TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2168 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2169
2f079f46 2170TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2171
2172TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2173
2174PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2175 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2176
2177PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2178 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2179 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2180 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2181 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2182 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2183 file.
2184
2185PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2186 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2187 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2188 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2189 these two options.
2190
2191PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2192 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2193 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2194 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2195 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2196 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2197 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2198 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2199
2200PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2201 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2202
2203PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2204 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2205 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2206 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2207 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2208 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2209
2210PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2211 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2212 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2213 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2214
2215PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2216 Finch).
2217
2218PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2219 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2220
49c2d5ea
PH
2221PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2222 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2223 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2224 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2225 message.
49c2d5ea 2226
bf759a8b
PH
2227PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2228
83364d30
PH
2229PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2230 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2231
7999bbd7
PH
2232PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2233 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2234 to what was transported.)
2235
7dbf77c9
PH
2236TF/01 Added $received_time.
2237
74e0617f
PH
2238PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2239 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2240 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2241 spamd_address settings.
2242
2f079f46
PH
2243PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2244 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2245 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2246 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2247 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2248
8c841523
PH
2249PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2250
7766a4f0
PH
2251PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2252 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2253 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2254 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2255 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2256
8b417f2c
PH
2257PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2258 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2259
901f42cb
PH
2260PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2261 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2262 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2263 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2264 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2265 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2266 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2267 for failure.
2268
f9b9210e
PH
2269PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2270 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2271 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2272 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2273 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2274 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2275 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2276 "input=".
2277
54cdb463
PH
2278PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2279
cf00dad6
PH
2280PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2281 driver and ACL definitions.
2282
acb1b346
PH
2283PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2284 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2285
c5ddb310
PH
2286PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2287 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2288 understands it better than I do:
2289
2290 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2291 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2292
2293 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2294 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2295 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2296 => three warnings about OTP not working
2297 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2298
2299 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2300 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2301 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2302 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2303 for each call.)
2304 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2305 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2306
2307 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2308 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2309 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2310
31619da6
PH
2311PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2312 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2313 specified.
2314
bebaf0fc
PH
2315PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2316 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2317 "Linux".
2318
475fe28a
PH
2319PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2320 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2321 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2322
2323 warn !verify = sender
2324 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2325
2326 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2327 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2328
7e8bec7a
PH
2329PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2330
2331 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2332 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2333
2334 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2335 nomenclature these days.)
2336
e4a89c47
PH
2337PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2338 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2339
5ca2a9a1
PH
2340PH/30 In these circumstances:
2341 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2342 . First host does not offer TLS;
2343 . First host accepts first address;
2344 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2345 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2346 . Second host accepts second address.
2347 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2348 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2349 address.
7e8bec7a 2350
c688b954
PH
2351PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2352 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2353 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2354 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2355 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2356
fed77020
PH
2357PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2358 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2359
7fe1560f
PH
2360PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2361 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2362
ebb6e6d5
PH
2363PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2364 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2365 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2366
9c4e8f60
PH
2367PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2368 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2369 overlooked.
2370
2371PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2372
d7174846
PH
2373PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2374 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2375 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2376 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2377 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2378 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2379 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2380
2381 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2382 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2383 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2384 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2385 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2386
2387 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2388 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2389 routed further.
2390
cfe75fc3
PH
2391PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2392 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2393 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2394 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2395 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2396 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2397
be22d70e
PH
2398PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2399
0612b098
PH
2400PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2401 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2402 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2403 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2404 printable escape sequences.
2405
2e0c1448
PH
2406PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2407 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2408 body only.
2409
447d236c
PH
2410PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2411 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2412 are as follows:
2413
2414 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2415 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2416 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2417 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2418 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2419
2420 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2421 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2422 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2423
d20976dc
PH
2424PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2425
f656d135
PH
2426PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2427 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2428 play with."
2429
2e2a30b4
PH
2430PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2431 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2432 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2433 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2434 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2435 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2436 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2437 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2438 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2439 the log output.
2440
9176e9f0
PH
2441PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2442 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2443 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2444 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2445 "make".
2446
7982096b 2447
bbe902f0
PH
2448A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2449----------------------------------------
2450
2451Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2452changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2453needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2454in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2455that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2456release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2457from 4.43.
2458
2459I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
24604.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2461those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2462historical information.
2463
2464
f7b63901 2465Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2466-----------------
2467
5fe762f6
PH
2468 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2469
139059f6 2470 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2471 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2472
7086e875
PH
2473 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2474 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2475 place.
2476
35af9f61
PH
2477 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2478 filter fails to execute.
2479
b668c215
PH
2480 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2481 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2482 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2483 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2484 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2485
a494b1e1
PH
2486 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2487
2488 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2489 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2490 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2491 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2492
c5fcb476
PH
2493 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2494 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2495 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2496 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2497 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2498
69358f02
PH
2499 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2500
5be20824
PH
250110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2502
eb2c0248
PH
250311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2504 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2505 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2506 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2507
2a3eea10
PH
250812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2509 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2510 sender verification.
2511
251213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2513 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2514
23c7ff99
PH
251514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2516
4deaf07d
PH
251715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2518 connection timeout.
2519
926e1192
PH
252016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2521 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2522
650edc6f
PH
252317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2524 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2525
2c7db3f5
PH
252618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2527 information about exactly what failed.
2528
3d235903
PH
252919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2530
7c7ad977
PH
253120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2532 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2533 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2534
981756db
PH
253521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2536 It is now set to "smtps".
2537
d4eb88df
PH
253822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2539 ignore_target_hosts.
2540
254123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2542 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2543 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2544 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2545 "[x.x.x.x]".
2546
7d468ab8
PH
254724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2548 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2549 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2550
255125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2552 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2553 wake it up if nothing else does.
2554
62c0818f
PH
255526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2556 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2557 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2558 end up negative.
2559
26034054
PH
256027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2561 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2562
af66f652
PH
256328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2564
90af77f4
PH
256529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2566 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2567 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2568 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2569 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2570 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2571 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2572 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2573
d8ef3577
PH
257430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2575 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2576 than one IP address.
2577
5cb8cbc6
PH
257831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2579 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2580 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2581 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2582
14702f5b
PH
258332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2584 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2585 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2586 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2587 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2588 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2589
063b1e99
PH
259033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2591 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2592 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2593 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2594
652e1b65
PH
259534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2596 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2597 respected.
2598
6f0c9a4f
PH
259935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2600 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2601 $sender_host_address.
2602
33397d19
PH
260336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2604 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2605 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2606 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2607 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2608 very small.
2609
7bb56e1f
PH
261037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2611
2612 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2613 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2614
ea3bc19b
PH
2615 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2616 just the host names, not the priorities.
2617
2618 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2619 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2620 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2621
ea3bc19b 2622 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2623 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2624
0bcb2a0e
PH
262538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2626 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2627 domain.
2628
2ac0e484
PH
262939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2630
4e1fde53
PH
263140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2632 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2633
de365ded
PH
263441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2635 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2636 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2637
f05da2e8
PH
263842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2639
d6453af2
PH
264043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2641
f7b63901
PH
264244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2643
264445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2645 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2646 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2647 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2648 because the tests only now provoked it.
2649
a444213a
PH
265046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2651 (this can affect the format of dates).
2652
0ec020ea
PH
265347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2654 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2655 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2656 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2657
b1206957
PH
265848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2659
266049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2661 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2662 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2663 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2664
26dd5a95
PH
266550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2666 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2667 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2668
343b2385
PH
266951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2670 autoreply.
2671
1c5466b9
PH
267252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2673 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2674 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2675 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2676 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2677 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2678 is going on).
2679
55ee9ee3
PH
268053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2681 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2682 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2683 the line.
2684
d38f8232
PH
268554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2686 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2687 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2688
2689 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2690 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2691 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2692 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2693 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2694 so I produce this patch..."
2695
3295e65b
PH
2696 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2697 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2698 is not defined.
2699
7102e136
PH
270055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2701 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2702 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2703 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2704 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2705
3ca0ba97
PH
270656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2707
c2bcbe20
PH
270857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2709 long debug lines gets shown.
2710
18ce445d
PH
271158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2712 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2713
1f5b4c3d
PH
271459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2715
2716 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2717 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2718 of $primary_hostname.
2719
b975ba52
PH
272060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2721 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2722 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2723 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2724 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2725 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2726 by change 4.50/55 above.
2727
2728 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2729 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2730 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2731 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2732 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2733 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2734 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2735
273661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2737 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2738 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2739 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2740
17ffcae7
PH
274162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2742 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2743
d95f9fdb
PH
274463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2745 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2746 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2747 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2748 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2749
86b8287f
PH
275064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2751 This has been fixed.
2752
60dc5e56
PH
275365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2754 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2755 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2756 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2757 the caching.)
2758
533244af
PH
275966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2760
a5a28604
PH
276167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2762 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2763 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2764 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2765
7e634d24
PH
276668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2767 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2768
3e11c26b
PH
276969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2770 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2771 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2772
6729cf78
PH
277370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2774 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2775 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2776 message there.
2777
00f00ca5
PH
277871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2779 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2780 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2781
c9bdd01c
PH
278272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2783 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2784 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2785 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2786
d43194df
PH
278773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2788 during host lookups.
2789
fe5b5d0b
PH
279074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2791 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2792
2793 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2794
76a2d7ba
PH
279575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2796 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2797 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2798 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2799 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2800 background.
2801
280276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2803 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2804
04f7d5b9
PH
280577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2806 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2807 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2808
bc60667e
PH
280978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2810
bb6e88ff
PH
281179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2812 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2813 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2814 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2815 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2816 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2817 process earlier.
2818
1e70f85b
PH
281980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2820 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2821 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2822 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2823 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2824
282581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2826 tables).
2827
4e01f9d6
PH
282882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2829
1ee1cef2
PH
283083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2831 "vacation" handling.
2832
6e2b4ccc
PH
283384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2834 OS variants using glibc.
2835
8e669ac1
PH
283685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2837
495ae4b0 2838
bbe902f0
PH
2839----------------------------------------------------
2840See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2841----------------------------------------------------
2842
2843
2844Exim version 4.44
2845-----------------
2846
2847 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2848 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2849 transport
2850
2851 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2852 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2853 place.
2854
2855 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2856 filter fails to execute.
2857
2858 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2859 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2860 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2861 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2862 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2863
2864 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2865 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2866 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2867 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2868
2869 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2870 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2871 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2872 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2873 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2874
2875 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2876
2877 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2878 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2879 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2880 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2881
2882 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2883 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2884 sender verification.
2885
288610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2887 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2888
288911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2890 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2891
289212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2893 ignore_target_hosts.
2894
289513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2896 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2897 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2898 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2899 "[x.x.x.x]".
2900
290114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2902 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2903 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2904
290515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2906 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2907 wake it up if nothing else does.
2908
290916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2910 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2911 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2912 end up negative.
2913
291417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2915 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2916
ea3a6f44 291718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2918
291919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2920 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2921 empty pattern.
2922
292320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2924 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2925 one IP address.
2926
ea3a6f44
NM
292721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2928 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2929 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2930 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2931 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2932 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2933
ea3a6f44
NM
293422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2935 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2936 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2937
293823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2939 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2940 $sender_host_address.
2941
294224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2943
ea3a6f44
NM
294425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2945 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2946 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2947
294826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2949 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2950
ea3a6f44
NM
295127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2952 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2953
ea3a6f44
NM
295428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2955 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2956 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2957 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2958
295929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2960 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2961 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2962
ea3a6f44
NM
296330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2964 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2965 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2966 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2967
ea3a6f44
NM
296831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2969 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2970 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2971
ea3a6f44
NM
297231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2973 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2974
ea3a6f44
NM
297532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2976 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2977 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2978 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2979 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2980 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2981 is going on).
bbe902f0 2982
ea3a6f44
NM
298333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2984 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2985 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2986 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2987 CAN-2005-0021
2988
ea3a6f44
NM
298934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2990 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2991 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2992 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2993 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2994 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2995 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2996
2997 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2998 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2999 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3000 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3001 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3002 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3003 CAN-2005-0021
3004
ea3a6f44
NM
300535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3006 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3007 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3008 CAN-2005-0022
3009
ea3a6f44
NM
301036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3011 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3012 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3013 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3014 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3015
ea3a6f44
NM
301637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3017 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3018 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3019 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3020 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3021
ea3a6f44
NM
302238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3023 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3024 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3025 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3026 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3027
3028
495ae4b0
PH
3029Exim version 4.43
3030-----------------
3031
3032 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3033 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3034 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3035 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3036 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3037 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3038 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3039
3040 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3041 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3042 the delivery.
3043
3044 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3045
3046 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3047
3048 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3049 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3050 to local_scan().
3051
3052 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3053 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3054 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3055 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3056 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3057
3058 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3059 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3060
3061 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3062
3063 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3064
306510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3066 header_sender only.
3067
306811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3069 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3070
307112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3072 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3073 affecting debugging statements).
3074
307513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3076
307714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3078 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3079 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3080 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3081 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3082 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3083 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3084 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3085 after the received time, and all would be well.
3086
308715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3088 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3089 condition in an expansion string.
3090
309116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3092
309317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3094 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3095 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3096 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3097 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3098 job under whatever limits there are.
3099
310018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3101
310219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3103 space).
3104
310520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3106 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3107 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3108 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3109 return path is set.
3110
311121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3112 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3113 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3114 binary data in such strings.
3115
311622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3117
311823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3119 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3120 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3121 failure, which is pointless.
3122
312324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3124
312525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3126
312726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3128 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3129 Sender: header lines.
3130
313127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3132 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3133 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3134
313528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3136 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3137 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3138 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3139 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3140 happens.
3141
314229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3143 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3144 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3145 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3146 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3147
314830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3149 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3150 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3151 1024.
3152
315331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3154 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3155
315632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3157 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3158
315933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3160
316132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3162
316333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3164
316534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3166 syntax error.
3167
316835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3169
317036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3171
317237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3173 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3174 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3175 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3176
317738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3178 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3179
3180
3181Exim version 4.42
3182-----------------
3183
3184 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3185 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3186 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3187 it was not quoted.
3188 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3189 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3190 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3191 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3192 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3193 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3194
3195 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3196 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3197 verification failure".
3198
3199 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3200 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3201 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3202 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3203
3204 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3205 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3206 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3207 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3208 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3209 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3210 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3211 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3212 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3213 treated as a timeout.
3214
3215 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3216 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3217 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3218 not set for Exim filters).
3219
3220 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3221 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3222 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3223
3224 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3225
3226 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3227 try to make them clearer.
3228
3229 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3230 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3231
3232 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3233
3234 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3235
323610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3237 only the Cygwin environment.
3238
323911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3240 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3241 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3242 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3243 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3244
324512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3246 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3247 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3248 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3249 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3250 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3251 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3252
325313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3254 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3255
325614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3257
3258 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3259 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3260 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3261
3262 To: susanne@some.where
3263
3264 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3265 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3266 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3267 of addresses in From: header lines).
3268
3269 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3270 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3271 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3272
3273 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3274 treated as non-personal.
3275
3276 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3277 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3278
327915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3280
328116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3282
328317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3284 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3285 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3286
328718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3288 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3289
329019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3291 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3292 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3293 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3294 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3295 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3296
329720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3298 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3299 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3300 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3301 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3302 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3303 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3304 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3305
3306 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3307
330821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3309 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3310
331122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3312 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3313 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3314
331523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3316 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3317
331824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3319 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3320 rather than long int.
3321
332225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3323
332426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3325
3326
3327Exim version 4.41
3328-----------------
3329
3330 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3331 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3332 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3333 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3334 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3335 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3336
3337
3338Exim version 4.40
3339-----------------
3340
3341 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3342 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3343
3344 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3345 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3346 socklen_t is defined.
3347
3348 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3349 always exist.
3350
3351 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3352 configured.
3353
3354 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3355 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3356 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3357 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3358 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3359
3360 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3361 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3362 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3363 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3364
3365 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3366 of flapping under certain conditions.
3367
3368 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3369 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3370 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3371
3372 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3373
337410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3375
337611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3377 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3378 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3379 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3380
338112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3382 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3383 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3384 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3385 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3386 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3387 preserved with the message after it was received.
3388
338913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3390 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3391 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3392 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3393 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3394 test suite worked just fine.
3395
339614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3397 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3398 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3399
340015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3401 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3402 string.
3403
340416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3405 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3406 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3407 does not fully solve it.
3408
340917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3410 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3411 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3412 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3413 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3414
341518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3416 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3417 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3418
341919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3420 string, for example:
3421
3422 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3423
3424 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3425 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3426 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3427 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3428 the routers could not see them.
3429
343020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3431 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3432
343321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3434 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3435 output).
3436
343722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3438 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3439 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3440 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3441 that needed quoting.
3442
344323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3444 was not being matched caselessly.
3445
344624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3447 backslashes.
3448
344925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3450 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3451 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3452 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3453 when use_sender is false.
3454
345526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3456
345727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3458
345928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3460
346129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3462 the configuration file.
3463
346430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3465 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3466
346731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3468
346932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3470 bytes in the message body.
3471
347233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3473 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3474 delivery.
3475
347634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3477
347835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3479
348036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3481 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3482 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3483 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3484 another IP address.
3485
3486
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3489
3490 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3491 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3492
3493 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3494 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3495 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3496 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3497 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3498
3499 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3500 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3501
3502 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3503 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_