Expand documentation on use of dnslists in an IPv6 environment. Bug 1369
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
29
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30JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
31
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32TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
34
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35PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
36 not dns_use_dnssec.
37
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38JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
39
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40TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
43
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44TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
45 results permerror and temperror. Is a backward incompatibility if
46 the ACL tests for either of these two results. Patch contributed by
47 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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2c422e6f 49Exim version 4.82
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51
52PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
53
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54PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
55 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
56
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57PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
58 by GnuTLS.
59
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60PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
61 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
62 routines.
63
13363eba 64PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 65
66645890 66PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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67 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
68 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
69 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
70 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 71
a3fb9793 72PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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73 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
74 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
75 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 76 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 77 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 78
d27f98fe 79TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 80
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81TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
82
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83TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
84 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
85
ae0e32ee 86TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 87 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 88 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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90TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 91
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92TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
93
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94TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
95 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
96
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97JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
98
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99JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
100
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101PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
102
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103NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
104 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 105
585121e2 106JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 107
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108PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
109 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
110 function.
a5f239e4 111
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112PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
113 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
114
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115JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
116 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
117 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 118
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119JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
120
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121JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
122
ea722490 123JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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124 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
125
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126JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
127 Bugzilla 884.
128
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129JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
130 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
131
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132JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
133 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
134
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135PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
136 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 137 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 138
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139JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
140 authenticators.
141
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142JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
143 for control.
144
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145PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
146
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147PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
148 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
149 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
150 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
151
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152TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
153
154 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
155 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
156 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
157 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
158 the retry rules.
159
160 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
161 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
162 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
163
164 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
165 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
166 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
167 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
168
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169 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
170 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
171 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
172 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
173 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
174 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
175 delivery, as in LMTP.
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177 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
178 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
179
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180TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
181
182 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
183
184 Resent-From: f
185
186 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
187 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
188 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
189 username as equal to the username.
190
191 This change corrects that bug.
192
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193GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
194 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
195 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
196
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197TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
198
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199PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
200 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
201 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
202 NULL dereference and crash.
203
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204JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
205
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206PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
207 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
208 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
209
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210SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
211
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212JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
213 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
214 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
215 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
216 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
217 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
218 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
219 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
220 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
221 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
222 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
223
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224PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
225 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
226
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227PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
228 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
229 Bugzilla 880.
230
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231PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
232 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
233 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
234 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
235 an empty string is now equivalent.
236
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237PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
238 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
239 not performing validation itself.
240
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241PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
242 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
243
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244JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
245 Bugzilla 321, 823.
246
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247TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
248
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249PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
250 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
251 other false fix of the same issue.
252 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
253 Bugzilla 1363.
254
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255PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
256 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
257
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258PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
259 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
260 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
261
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262PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
263 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
264 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
265
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266TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
267
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268JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
269
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270TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
271 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
272
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273TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
274 Alexander Miroch.
275
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276TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
277 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
278 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
279 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
280 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 281
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282TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
283 the src/util/ subdirectory.
284
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285TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
286 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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287 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
288
289TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
290 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
291 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
292 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
293
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294TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
295
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296TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
297 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
298 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 299
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300TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
301
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302TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
303 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
304 interaction.
305
306TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
307 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
308
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309TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
310 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
311
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313Exim version 4.80.1
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315
316PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
317 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 318 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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ea722490 320
b1770b6e 321Exim version 4.80
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323
324PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
325 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
326 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
327
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328NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
329
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330NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
331 improved.
332
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333NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
334
c1e794ba 335PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 336
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337PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
338
339PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
340 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
341
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342PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
343 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
344
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345PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
346 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
347
f1e05cc7 348PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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349 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
350 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 351
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352PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
353
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354PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
355 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
356
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357PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
358
c45dd180 359PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 360
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361PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
362 non-compliant senders.
363 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
364
eae0036b 365NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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366 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
367 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
368
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369PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
370 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
371 in spool file corruption.
372
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373PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
374 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
375 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
376 "Got SSL error 2".
377
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378TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
379 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
380 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
381
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382JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
383 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
384
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385JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
386
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387PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
388 diagnostics.
389 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
390
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391PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
392 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
393 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
394
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395PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
396 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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397 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
398 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 399
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400PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
401 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
402
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403PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
404 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
405 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
406 resolver implementation change.
407
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408PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
409 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
410
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411PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
412
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413PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
414
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415PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
416 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
417
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418PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
419 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
420
9e45c72b 421JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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422 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
423
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424PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
425 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
426 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
427 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 428 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 429
53947857 430PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 431
eae0036b 432PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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433 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
434 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 435
9e45c72b 436JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 437
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438PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
439 read-only, out of scope).
440 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
441
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442PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
443 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
444 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
445 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
446
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447PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
448
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449PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
450 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
451 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
452 real issues in debug logging.
453
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454PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
455 assignment on my part. Fixed.
456
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457PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
458 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
459 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
460
461PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
462 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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463 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
464 problems.
3375e053 465
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466PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
467 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
468
57eb9e91 469PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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470 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
471 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
472 needs to override this, it can.
473
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474PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
475 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
476 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
477
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478PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
479 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
480 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
481 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
482
3ecab157 483PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 484
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486Exim version 4.77
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488
489PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
490 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
491
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492TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
493
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494TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
495 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 496
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497TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
498 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
499
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500TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
501 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
502 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
503
504 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
505 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
506 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
507 not safe for signals.
508
509 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
510 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
511 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
512 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
513 exiwhat.
514
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515TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
516
517 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
518 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
519 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
520 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
521 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
522
523 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
524 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
525 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
526 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
527 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
528 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
529
530 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
531 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
532 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
533 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
534
535 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
536 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
537 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
538 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
539
540 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
541 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
542 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
543 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
544 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
545 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
546 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
547 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
548 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
549
550 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
551 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
552 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
553 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
554
555 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
556 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
557 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
558 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
559 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
560 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
561 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
562 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
563 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
564 details in the main documentation.
565
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566TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
567
792e8a19
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568TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
569
5901f0ab
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570TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
571 repository when doing development or release builds.
572
7f2a2a43
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573PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
574 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 575
061b7ebd
PP
576PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
577 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
578 Bugzilla 97.
579
e12f8c32
PP
580PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
581
9e949f00 582PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
583 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
584
585PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
586 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 587
555ae6af 588PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
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589 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
590
591PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
592 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 593
6f7fe114
PP
594PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
595 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
596
c566dd90
PP
597PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
598 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
599 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
600 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 601
d6cc7c78 602PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
603 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
604 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
605
0d0e4455
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606PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
607
3399bb60 608PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
609
610PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
611 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
612
0ca0cf52 613
10906672
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614Exim version 4.76
615-----------------
616
617PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
618
754a0503
PP
619PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
620 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
621
c0c7b2da
PP
622PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
623
e97d1f08
PP
624PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
625
084c1d8c
PP
626PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
627 Bugzilla 1098.
628
4e7ee012
PP
629PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
630 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 631
c8d52a00
PP
632TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
633 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
634
54e7ce4a
PP
635PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
636 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
637
5ee6f336
PP
638PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
639 Bugzilla 1104.
640
c8d52a00 641TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
642 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
643
644TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
645 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
646 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
647 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
648
649PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
650 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 651
10906672 652
aa097c4c
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653Exim version 4.75
654-----------------
655
4c9ef03a 656NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
657 Bugzilla 1073
658
7f3d9eff
TF
659TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
660 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
661 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
662
159f52d2
TF
663TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
664 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
665
0cc9542a
PP
666PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
667 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
668 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
669
f7274286
PP
670PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
671 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
672
7b797365
PP
673PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
674 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
675
caacae52
NM
676NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
677 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
678
09dcaba9
NM
679NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
680 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
681
bc19a55b
PP
682PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
683 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 684
bd4c9759
NM
685NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
686 Fixes bug 943.
687
b72aab72
PP
688PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
689 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
690
2fe76745
PP
691PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
692 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
693
76aa570c
PP
694PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
695 SQL string expansion failure details.
696 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
697
f1e5fef5
PP
698PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
699 Patch from Simon Arlott.
700
4d805ee9
PP
701PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
702 extern declarations in function scope.
703 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
704
cd59ab18
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705PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
706 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
707 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
708 a kernel bug).
709
332f5cf3
PP
710PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
711 Patch from Mark Zealey.
712
29cfeb94
PP
713PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
714 Patch from Mark Zealey.
715
660242ad
PP
716PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
717 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
718
bc4bc4c5
PP
719PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
720 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
721
2e64baa9
NM
722NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
723 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
724 Dennis Davis.
725
bddd7526
PP
726PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
727
6bac1a9a
PP
728PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
729
552193f0
NM
730NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
731 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 732
1b587e48
TF
733TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
734 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
735
aa097c4c 736
8c07b69f
TF
737Exim version 4.74
738-----------------
739
740TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
741 consequences so log it to the panic log.
742
c0ea85ab
TF
743TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
744 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
745
0761d44e
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746TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
747
0a349494
PP
748DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
749 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
750 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
751
752PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
753 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
754 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
755
fea24b2e
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756PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
757 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
758 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
759 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
760
6545de78
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761PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
762 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
763 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
764 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
765
1670ef10
PP
766PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
767 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
768 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
769 arbitrary files.
770
c0886197
PP
771PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
772 (Wolfgang Breyha)
773
b7487bce
PP
774PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
775 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
776 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
777 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
778 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
779
8c07b69f 780
97fd1e48 781Exim version 4.73
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PP
783
784PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
785 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
786 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
787
6901c596
PP
788PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
789 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
790
a8c8d6b5
JJ
791JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
792
77bb000f
PP
793PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
794
a29e5231
PP
795PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
796
ec5a0394 797PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 798
55c75993
PP
799PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
800
453a6645 801PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
802 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
803 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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804 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
805
8544e77a
PP
806PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
807 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
808 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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809 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
810 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 811
83e029d5
PP
812PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
813
ed7f7860
PP
814PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
815
7d9f747b
PP
816PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
817
4b2241d2
PP
818PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
819
10385c15
PP
820PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
821
dbc4b90d
PP
822PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
823
532be449
PP
824PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
825
6a8de854 826PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
827 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
828 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 829
5dc43717
JJ
830JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
831
832JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
833 "exim" to be used
55c75993 834
3346ab01
PP
835PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
836 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
837
491fab4c
PP
838PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
839 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
840 Notification from John Horne.
841
13eb9497
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842PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
843 compatible.
844
845PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
846 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
847 it normally works.
848
7f36d675
DW
849DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
850 access.
851
c1d94452
DW
852DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
853 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
854 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
855
e2f5dc15
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856DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
857 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
858 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
859 configuration file.
860
cd25e41d
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861DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
862 option (effectively making it always true).
863
261dc43e
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864DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
865 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
866
fa32850b
DW
867DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
868 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
869
79d4bc3d
PP
870PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
871 run-time user, instead of root.
872
43236f35 873PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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874 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
875
fb08281f
DW
876DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
877 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
878 arguments.
3346ab01 879
74935b98
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880DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
881 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
882 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
883
90b6341f
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884DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
885
57730b52
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886NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
887
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889Exim version 4.72
890-----------------
891
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892JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
893 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
894 typos
465e92cf 895
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896JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
897 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
898 (Finput)
edae0343 899
9bd3e22c
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900NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
901 Patch from Alain Williams
902
bb576ff7
NM
903NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
904
5a1a5845
NM
905NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
906 Patch from Andreas Metzler
907
981a9fad
NM
908NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
909 Patch from Kirill Miazine
910
7fc497ee
NM
911NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
912
1a41defa
JJ
913JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
914
a466095c 915NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 916 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 917
94a6bd0b
NM
918TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
919
920TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
921
922MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
923 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
924 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
925
c1b141a8
NM
926NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
927 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 928
b26eacf1 929NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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930 Patch by Simon Arlott
931
179c5980 932PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 933 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 934
9bd3e22c 935
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936Exim version 4.71
937-----------------
938
7d9f747b 939TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 940
f013fb92
NM
941NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
942
0eb8eedd
NM
943NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
944
663ee6d9
NM
945NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
946
177ebd9b
NM
947NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
948
7c6d71af 949
210f147e
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950Exim version 4.70
951-----------------
952
cdd3bb85 953TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 954 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
955
956TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
957 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 958 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
959
960TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
961 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 962 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
963
964TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
965 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
966
210f147e
NM
967NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
968 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
969 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
970 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
971
deafd5b3
NM
972NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
973 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 974 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 975
089793a4
TF
976TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
977
5f16ca82
TF
978TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
979
dae9d94e 980NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 981 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 982
7d9f747b 983NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 984
06864c44
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985TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
986 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
987 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
988 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
989
65a7d8c3 990NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 991 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 992
23510047 993TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 994
7d9f747b 995NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 996
7d8eec3a 997NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 998 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 999
89dec7b6
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1000TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1001 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1002
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1003TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1004 that they are available at delivery time.
1005
e2803e40
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1006TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1007
7199e1ee
TF
1008TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1009 incoming_port log selectors.
1010
e276e04b
TF
1011TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1012 setting expands to an empty string.
1013
ce552449 1014NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1015 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1016
e765a0f1 1017NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1018 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1019
4f054c63 1020NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1021 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1022
7d9f747b
PP
1023NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1024 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1025
7d9f747b
PP
1026NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1027 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1028
b52bc06e 1029NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1030 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1031
447de4b0
NM
1032NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1033
4c69d561 1034NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1035 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1036
d5c39246 1037NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1038 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1039
0b23848a
TK
1040TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1041
8f3414a1 1042NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1043 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1044
fb6f955d
NM
1045NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1046
1047NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1048
7d9f747b
PP
1049NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1050 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1051
7d9f747b
PP
1052NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1053 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1054
7d9f747b
PP
1055NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1056 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1057
7d9f747b
PP
1058NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1059 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1060
7d9f747b
PP
1061NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1062 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1063
7d9f747b
PP
1064NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1065 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1066
7d9f747b
PP
1067NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1068 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1069
7d9f747b 1070NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1071 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1072
7d9f747b 1073NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1074
7d9f747b
PP
1075NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1076 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1077
7d9f747b 1078NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1079
7d9f747b 1080NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1081
7d9f747b 1082NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1083
7d9f747b 1084NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1085
17792b53 1086NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1087 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1088
7d9f747b
PP
1089NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1090 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1091
91576cec 1092NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1093 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1094
7d9f747b
PP
1095NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1096 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1097
7d9f747b 1098NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1099
7d9f747b 1100NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1101
7d9f747b 1102NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1103
7d9f747b 1104NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1105
deafd5b3 1106
47db1125
NM
1107Exim version 4.69
1108-----------------
1109
4b3504d0
TK
1110TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1111 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1112 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1113
1114 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1115 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1116 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1117 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1118 build errors in sieve.c.
1119
81ea09ca
NM
1120NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1121 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1122 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1123
f13cddcb
SC
1124SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1125
7d9f747b 1126NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1127
7d9f747b 1128NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1129
7d9f747b 1130NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1131
1132
eb4c0de6
PH
1133Exim version 4.68
1134-----------------
1135
1136PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1137
6a3bceb1
PH
1138PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1139 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1140 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1141 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1142 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1143 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1144 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1145 for iplsearch lookups.
1146
1147 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1148 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1149 previously such lookups could never work.
1150
1151 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1152 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1153 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1154
2e30fa9d
TK
1155TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1156 version.
1157
0806a9c5
MH
1158MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1159 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1160 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1161 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1162 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1163 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1164
ae276964
TK
1165TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1166 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1167
0f2cbd1b
MH
1168MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1169 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1170 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1171 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1172 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1173 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1174
2b85bce7
PH
1175PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1176 local_scan API.
1177
93655c46
PH
1178PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1179
6c512171
PH
1180PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1181 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1182 encrypted.
1183
1184PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1185 by clients under certain conditions.
1186
aa6dc513
PH
1187PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1188 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1189
a96603a0
PH
1190PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1191
8f240103
PH
1192PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1193 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1194
1195PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1196
d677b2f2
PH
1197PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1198
d52120f2
PH
1199PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1200
64f2600a
PH
1201PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1202 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1203
8669f003
PH
1204PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1205
a4dc33a8
PH
1206PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1207 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1208
d6a60c0f
PH
1209PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1210
8f128379
PH
1211PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1212
8932dffe
PH
1213PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1214 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1215 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1216 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1217
ddea74fa 1218PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1219 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1220 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1221
ddea74fa 1222PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1223 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1224
ddea74fa
PH
1225PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1226
ce9f225c
PH
1227PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1228
19897d52
PH
1229PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1230
bc64a74d
PH
1231PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1232 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1233 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1234
eb4c0de6 1235
b4ed4da0
PH
1236Exim version 4.67
1237-----------------
1238
22ad45c9
MH
1239MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1240 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1241 Jan Srzednicki.
1242
b4ed4da0
PH
1243PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1244 issue a MAIL command.
1245
431b7361
PH
1246PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1247
1248 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1249
1250 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1251 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1252 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1253 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1254 item. This has been fixed.
1255
1256PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1257 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1258
83da1223
PH
1259PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1260 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1261
54fc8428
PH
1262PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1263 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1264 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1265
34c5e8dd
SC
1266SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1267
bbe15da8
PH
1268PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1269 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1270 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1271 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1272 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1273
0e8a9471
MH
1274MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1275 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1276 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1277
f0872424
PH
1278PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1279 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1280 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1281 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1282
b01dd148
PH
1283PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1284
6bf342e1
PH
1285PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1286
273f34d0
PH
1287PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1288 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1289 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1290 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1291 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1292
cf8b11a5
PH
1293PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1294
41c7c167
PH
1295PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1296 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1297 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1298 values).
1299
9c57cbc0
PH
1300PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1301
f3f065bb
PH
1302PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1303
047bdd8c
PH
1304PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1305
0ce9abe6
PH
1306PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1307
0e22dfd1
PH
1308PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1309
4c590bd1
PH
1310PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1311 no_callout_flush is set.
1312
09945f1e
PH
1313PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1314 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1315 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1316 fixed.
1317
c51b8e75
PH
1318PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1319
e28326d8
PH
1320PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1321 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1322 other ACL rejections are.
1323
75b1493f
PH
1324PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1325 with slight modification.
1326
7c5214ec
PH
1327PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1328 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1329
4311097e
PH
1330PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1331 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1332 connection.
1333
29f89cad
PH
1334PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1335 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1336
5e687460
SC
1337SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1338
c3611384
PH
1339PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1340 expansion side effects.
1341
5a11a7b4
PH
1342PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1343 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1344 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1345 be the same.
1346
0e20aff9
MH
1347MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1348 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1349 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1350
ca86f471
PH
1351PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1352 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1353 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1354 were accidentally chopped off.
1355
a14e5636
PH
1356PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1357 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1358 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1359 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1360 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1361 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1362 pipelining has not been advertised.
1363
ec95d1a6
PH
1364PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1365
42855d71
PH
1366PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1367 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1368 This has been fixed.
1369
57c2c631
PH
1370PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1371 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1372 reported on Solaris.
1373
58c01c94
PH
1374PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1375 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1376 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1377 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1378 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1379 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1380 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1381
dee5a20a
PH
1382PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1383 cpus.
1384
d2ee6114
PH
1385PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1386
b2d5182b
PH
1387PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1388
79749a79
PH
1389PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1390 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1391 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1392 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1393 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1394 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1395
c456d9bb
PH
1396PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1397 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1398 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1399 host_all_ignored option.
1400
cd9868ec
PH
1401PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1402 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1403 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1404 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1405 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1406 is what is supposed to happen).
1407
ebeaf996
PH
1408PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1409 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1410 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1411 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1412 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1413 uses the Exim user.
1414
2679d413
PH
1415PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1416 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1417 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1418 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1419 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1420 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1421 users.
1422
84024b72
PH
1423PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1424
8005d38e
SC
1425SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1426 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1427 (Jez Hancock).
1428 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1429 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1430
3298c6c6
SC
1431SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1432
a43a27c5
PH
1433PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1434
58eb016e 1435PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1436 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1437 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1438 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1439 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1440 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1441 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1442 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1443 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1444 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1445 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1446
b43a74ea
PH
1447PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1448 advertised in response to EHLO.
1449
b4ed4da0 1450
5dd1517f
PH
1451Exim version 4.66
1452-----------------
1453
1454PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1455 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1456
1457 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1458 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1459
1460 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1461 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1462 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1463
1464 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1465 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1466 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1467 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1468 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1469
1470
93cfa765
TK
1471Exim version 4.65
1472-----------------
1473
1474TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1475 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1476 versions. (#438)
1477
d6066548
MH
1478MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1479 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1480 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1481
4362ff0d
PH
1482PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1483 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1484 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1485 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1486 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1487 rather than extend the field.
1488
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1491-----------------
aa41d2de 1492
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1493TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1494 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1495 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1496 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1497 these files.
1498
1499TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1500 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1501 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1502
1503TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1504 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1505 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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1506
1507TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1508 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1509 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1510 in the field name.
1511
2b1c6e3a
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1512PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1513 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1514 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1515 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1516 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1517 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1518 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1519 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1520 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1521 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1522 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1523
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PH
1524PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1525 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1526
1527PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1528 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1529 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1530 ignores EPIPE as well.
1531
d203e649
PH
1532PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1533 (quoted-printable decoding).
1534
cc2ed8f7 1535PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1536 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1537
ddfcd446
PH
1538PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1539
d45b1de8
PH
1540PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1541
1542PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1543
38a0a95f 1544PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1545 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1546
a2405d83
JJ
1547JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1548 in 4.64-PH/09.
1549
1550JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1551 miscellaneous code fixes
1552
6ea85e9a
PH
1553PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1554 rejections.
1555
26da7e20
PH
1556PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1557 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1558 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1559 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1560 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1561 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1562 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1563 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1564
14aa5a05 1565PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1566 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1567 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1568 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1569 function.
1570 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1571 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1572 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1573 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1574 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1575 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1576 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1577 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1578 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1579
ff75a1f7
PH
1580PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1581 decoding.
1582
e6f6568e
PH
1583PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1584 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1585 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1586 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1587 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1588 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1589 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1590 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1591
d6f6e0dc
PH
1592PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1593 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1594 list.
1595
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1596PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1597 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1598 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1599 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1600 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1601 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1602 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1603 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1604 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1605 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1606 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1607 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1608 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1609
08955dd3
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1610PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1611 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1612 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1613 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1614 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1615 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1616 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1617
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PH
1618PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1619 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1620 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1621 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1622 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1623 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1624 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1625 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1626 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1627 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1628
602e59e5
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1629PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1630 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1631 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1632 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1633 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1634
411ef850
PH
1635PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1636 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1637 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1638 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1639 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1640 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1641 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1642
7befa435
PH
1643PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1644 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1645 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1646 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1647 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1648 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1649 been verified.
1650
48da4259 1651PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1652 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1653 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1654 and authorization.)
1655
48da4259
PH
1656PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1657 if any retry times were supplied.
1658
d1d5595c
PH
1659PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1660 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1661 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1662
0ef732d9
PH
1663PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1664
328895cc
PH
1665PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1666
fd700877
PH
1667PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1668 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1669 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1670 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1671 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1672 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1673
8dce1a6f
PH
1674PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1675 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1676
17af4a17
PH
1677PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1678 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1679 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1680
1681PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1682 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1683 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1684 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1685 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1686 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1687 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1688 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1689 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1690
1691 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1692 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1693 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1694 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1695 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1696 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1697 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1698 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1699 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1700
1701 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1702 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1703 hammering the server.
1704
c1114884
PH
1705PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1706 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1707
7a0743eb
PH
1708PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1709
0d85fa3f
PH
1710PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1711 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1712 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1713
1bf43b78
PH
1714PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1715 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1716 one case where this was not true.
1717
520de300
PH
1718PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1719 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1720 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1721 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1722 fails.
1723
48c7f9e2
PH
1724PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1725 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1726 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1727 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1728 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1729 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1730 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1731 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1732 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1733 smtp transport.
1734
99ea1c86
PH
1735PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1736 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1737 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1738 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1739
a2042e78
PH
1740PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1741 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1742
4fbcfc2e
PH
1743PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1744 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1745 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1746
aa41d2de
PH
1747PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1748
af561417
PH
1749PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1750
3cc66b45
PH
1751PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1752
194cc0e4
PH
1753PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1754 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1755 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1756 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1757
a401ddaa
PH
1758PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1759 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1760
4e88a19f
PH
1761PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1762 be meaningful with "accept".
1763
d7d7b289
SC
1764SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1765 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1766
1767SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1768 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1769 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1770
1771SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1772 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1773 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1774 there is data to show.
1775 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1776
1777SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1778 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1779 as well as the number of messages.
1780
1781SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1782 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1783 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1784
1785SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1786 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1787 have a flag are now skipped.
1788
1789SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1790 Added the -emptyok flag.
1791
1792SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1793 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1794
0ea2a468
JJ
1795JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1796 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1797 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1798
1799JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1800 match 4.64-PH/13
1801
1802JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1803 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1804
1805JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1806
1807JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1808 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1809
8a10f5a4
PH
1810PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1811
30e18802
PH
1812PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1813 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1814 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1815 contravention of the specifications.
1816
55728a4f
PH
1817PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1818 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1819 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1820
d7837193
PH
1821PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1822 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1823 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1824
87054a31
PH
1825PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1826
ea2c01d2
MH
1827MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1828 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1829 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1830 some point in the past.
1831
e4fa6968
PH
1832PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1833 transport during callout processing was broken.
1834
56f5d9bd
PH
1835PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1836 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1837
922e1c28
PH
1838PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1839 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1840
21eb6e72
PH
1841PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1842 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1843
a0540757
PH
1844PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1845
944e9e9c 1846
478be7b0
SC
1847Exim version 4.63
1848-----------------
1849
1850SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1851 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1852
1853SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1854 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1855 there is data to show.
1856 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1857
1858SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1859 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1860
2b965a65
TF
1861TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1862 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1863
45b91596
PH
1864TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1865 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1866
c59f5781
TF
1867TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1868 submissions from trusted users.
1869
90fc3069
TF
1870TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1871 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1872
6083aca0
TF
1873TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1874 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1875 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1876 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1877 there is now a framework to start from.
1878
765b530f
PH
1879PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1880 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1881 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1882
4e167a8c
PH
1883PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1884
4608d683
PH
1885PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1886
b8dc3e4a
PH
1887PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1888
5418e93b
PH
1889PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1890 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1891 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1892
b4a9bda2
PH
1893PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1894 libradius.
1895
45b91596
PH
1896PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1897 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1898 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1899
5547e2c5
PH
1900PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1901 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1902 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1903 its arguments.
1904
dbcef0ea
PH
1905PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1906 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1907 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1908 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1909 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1910
25257489
PH
1911PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1912 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1913
c816d124
PH
1914PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1915
a9ccd69a
PH
1916PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1917 operations in malware.c.
1918
75fa1910
PH
1919PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1920 signatures.
1921
a7d7aa58
PH
1922PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1923 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1924 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1925 all.
1926
42119b09
PH
1927PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1928 statements to "add_header".
1929
41609df5
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1930PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1931 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1932
a5bd321b
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1933PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1934 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1935 latter.
1936
e85a7ad5 1937PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1938 so that it is now:
1939
e85a7ad5
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1940 ${if or { \
1941 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1942 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1943 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1944 }{no}{yes}}
1945
e85a7ad5
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1946 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1947 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1948
d8fe1c03
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1949PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1950 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1951
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1952PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1953 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1954 any possible encoding problems.
1955
35d40a98
PH
1956PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1957 but not after initializing Perl.
1958
034d99ab
PH
1959PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1960 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1961 apparently, which is not desirable.
1962
6ec97b1b
PH
1963PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1964 queries.
1965
e22ca4ac
JJ
1966JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1967 --not options
1968
1969JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1970
33d73e3b
PH
1971PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1972 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1973 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1974 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1975
9ecb03f3
PH
1976PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1977 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1978 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1979
084efe8d
PH
1980PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1981 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1982 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1983 0.12.
1984
366fc9f0
PH
1985PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1986 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1987 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1988 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1989 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1990
c59f5781 1991
c887c79e
TF
1992Exim version 4.62
1993-----------------
1994
1995TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1996 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1997
1cce3af8
PH
1998PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1999 patch).
2000
afb3eaaf
PH
2001PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2002 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2003 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2004 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2005 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2006 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2007 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2008 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2009 451 error is used.
2010
e173618b
PH
2011PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2012
dd16e114
PH
2013PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2014 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2015 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2016
f7fd3850
PH
2017PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2018 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2019 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2020 odd errors.
2021
d87df92c
PH
2022PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2023 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2024
7e9f683d
PH
2025PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2026 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2027 option (which defaults to 0600).
2028
bfad5236
PH
2029PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2030
01c490df
PH
2031PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2032 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2033 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2034 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2035 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2036 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2037 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2038
d6629cdc
PH
2039PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2040
1cce3af8 2041
214e2000
PH
2042Exim version 4.61
2043-----------------
2044
2045PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2046 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2047 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2048 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2049 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2050 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2051 addresses as local.
2052
f9daeae0
PH
2053PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2054 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2055
7e66e54d
PH
2056PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2057
c8ea1597
PH
2058PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2059 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2060 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2061 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2062 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2063 grumble.
2064
911f6fde
PH
2065PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2066 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2067
47ca6d6c
PH
2068PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2069 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2070 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2071 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2072 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2073
ed0e9820
PH
2074PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2075 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2076 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2077 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2078
eff37e47
PH
2079PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2080 be the same on different OS.
2081
1921d2ea
PH
2082PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2083 testing.
2084
b3f69ca8
JJ
2085JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2086 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2087
2088JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2089 in 4.61-PH/06
2090
424a1c63
PH
2091PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2092 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2093 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2094 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2095 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2096 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2097 bounce message.
2098
7a100415
PH
2099PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2100 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2101 when Exim was called.
2102
19b9dc85
PH
2103PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2104 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2105
309bd837
PH
2106PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2107 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2108 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2109 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2110
59e82a2a
PH
2111PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2112 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2113 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2114 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2115 changes:
2116
2117 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2118 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2119 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2120
2121 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2122 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2123 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2124
9edc04ce
PH
2125PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2126 feature).
2127
1349e1e5
PH
2128PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2129 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2130 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2131 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2132 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2133 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2134 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2135 values from the SRV records were lost.
2136
ea49d0e1
PH
2137PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2138 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2139 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2140
064a94c9
PH
2141PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2142 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2143 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2144
727071f8
PH
2145PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2146 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2147 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2148 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2149 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2150 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2151 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2152 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2153 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2154 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2155
f78eb7c6
PH
2156PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2157 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2158 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2159
21c28500
PH
2160PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2161 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2162
2163PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2164 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2165 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2166 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2167 is given.
2168
1688f43b
PH
2169PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2170 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2171 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2172
2173PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2174 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2175 PH/23 above applies.
2176
9675b384
PH
2177PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2178 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2179 (for which there is an explicit test).
2180
6a3f1455
PH
2181PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2182
dac79d3e
PH
2183PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2184 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2185 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2186 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2187 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2188
5977a0b3
PH
2189PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2190 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2191 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2192 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2193
c91535f3
PH
2194PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2195 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2196 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2197
0d46a8c8
PH
2198PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2199
278c6e6c
PH
2200PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2201
2cbb4081
PH
2202PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2203 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2204 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2205
3eef829e
PH
2206PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2207 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2208 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2209 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2210 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2211
1ab95fa6
PH
2212PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2213 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2214 the message gets confusing).
2215
230205fc
PH
2216PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2217 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2218 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2219 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2220
75e0e026
PH
2221PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2222 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2223 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2224 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2225 same order.
2226
2227PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2228 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2229 the different processes.
2230
145396a6
PH
2231PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2232
3cd34f13
PH
2233PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2234
11121d3d
JJ
2235JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2236 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2237
2238JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2239 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2240
2241JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2242 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2243 messages matching specified criteria.
2244
8def5aaf
PH
2245PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2246
929ba01c
PH
2247PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2248 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2249
2632889e
PH
2250PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2251 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2252 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2253 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2254 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2255 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2256 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2257 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2258 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2259 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2260
944a9c55
PH
2261PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2262 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2263 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2264
4a23603b
PH
2265PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2266
4730f942
PH
2267PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2268 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2269 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2270 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2271 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2272 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2273 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2274 the variable.
2275
30dba1e6
PH
2276PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2277 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2278
382afc6b
PH
2279PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2280
a86229cf
PH
2281PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2282
50c99ba6
PH
2283PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2284
d35e429d
PH
2285PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2286 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2287 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2288 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2289 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2290 size of the count of files.
2291
f90d018c
PH
2292PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2293
75def545
PH
2294PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2295 used in LMTP mode:
2296
2297 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2298 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2299 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2300 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2301
2302 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2303 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2304 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2305
2306PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2307 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2308 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2309 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2310 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2311
c46782ef
PH
2312PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2313 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2314
71fafd95
PH
2315PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2316 will now be deprecated.
2317
2c5db4fd
PH
2318PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2319
9cf6b11a
JJ
2320JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2321 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2322 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2323
2324JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2325 with very large, slow to parse queues
2326
2327JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2328
2329JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2330
898d150f
PH
2331PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2332 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2333 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2334 SMTP output lines.
2335
46218253
PH
2336PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2337 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2338 Sieve code now uses this.
2339
e97957bc
PH
2340PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2341 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2342
81e509d7
PH
2343PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2344 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2345
3d240ff7
PH
2346PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2347
b37c4101
PH
2348PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2349 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2350 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2351 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2352 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2353
79378e0f
PH
2354PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2355 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2356 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2357 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2358
e49c7bb4
PH
2359PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2360
d114ec46
PH
2361PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2362
f3d7df6c
PH
2363PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2364 is preferred over IPv4.
2365
715ab376
PH
2366PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2367 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2368 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2369 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2370 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2371 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2372 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2373
6b31b150
PH
2374PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2375 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2376 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2377
2378PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2379
d515a917
PH
2380PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2381 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2382 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2383 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2384 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2385 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2386 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2387 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2388 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2389 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2390 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2391
9b8fadde
PH
2392PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2393 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2394 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2395
214e2000 2396
5de37277
PH
2397Exim version 4.60
2398-----------------
2399
cc38ddbf
PH
2400PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2401
2402 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2403 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2404
2405 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2406 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2407 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2408
72fdd6ae
PH
2409PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2410
2411 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2412 not a single digit.
2413
2414 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2415 string.
2416
2417 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2418 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2419 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2420 silly things.
2421
2422 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2423 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2424
2425 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2426 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2427
cb741023
PH
2428PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2429 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2430 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2431
f174f16e
PH
2432PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2433 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2434
c25242d7
PH
2435PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2436 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2437
2438 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2439
2440 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2441 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2442 this:
2443
2444 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2445
82c19f95
PH
2446PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2447 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2448 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2449 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2450 identical. For example:
2451
2452 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2453
2454 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2455 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2456 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2457
d7ffbc12
PH
2458PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2459 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2460 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2461 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2462
9f526266
PH
2463PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2464 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2465 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2466 message.
2467
87fcc8b9
PH
2468PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2469
2470 o fixes some comments
2471 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2472 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2473 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2474 and documents the missing references header update
2475
2476 and most important:
2477
2478 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2479 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2480 result)
2481
456682f5
PH
2482PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2483 Electronic Mail") by including:
2484
2485 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2486
2487 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2488 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2489 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2490 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2491 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2492
2493 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2494
2495 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2496
2497 The auto-replied keyword:
2498
2499 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2500 message by an automatic process,
2501
2502 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2503
2504 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2505 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2506
2507 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2508 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2509 other messages.
2510
3e46c1aa
PH
2511PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2512 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2513
49826d12
PH
2514PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2515
eba0c039
PH
2516PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2517 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2518 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2519
a0d6ba8a
PH
2520PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2521 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2522 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2523
f0917727
PH
2524PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2525 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2526 and treats the condition as false.
2527
096fee00
PH
2528PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2529
024bd3c2
PH
2530PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2531 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2532 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2533 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2534 not changing the active code.
2535
2536 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2537 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2538
2539 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2540 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2541
df199fec
PH
2542PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2543 (Bugzilla #53).
2544
d27f1df3
PH
2545PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2546 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2547 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2548 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2549 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2550 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2551 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2552 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2553 the text comparison.
2554
96776534
PH
2555PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2556 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2557 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2558 The same fix has been applied.
2559
5de37277 2560
9a799bc0
PH
2561Exim version 4.54
2562-----------------
2563
2564PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2565 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2566 It now does.
2567
99a4b039
PH
2568PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2569 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2570
2571PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2572
4b233853
PH
2573PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2574 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2575 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2576 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2577 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2578
8857ccfd
PH
2579TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2580 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2581 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2582 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2583 or /domain=).
2584
433a2980
PH
2585PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2586 testing suite.
2587
3e46c1aa 2588
9a799bc0 2589
e3a311ba
TK
2590Exim version 4.53
2591-----------------
2592
2593TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2594 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2595
13b685f9
PH
2596PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2597
395ff96d
PH
2598PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2599
5b68f6e4
PH
2600PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2601 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2602 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2603
1ab52c69
PH
2604PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2605 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2606 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2607
b07e6aa3
PH
2608PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2609 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2610 operating systems.
2611
254e032f
PH
2612PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2613 ${stat: expansion item.
2614
3af76a81
PH
2615PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2616 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2617
2548ba04
PH
2618PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2619 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2620 file for comments.
2621
b6c6011d
PH
2622PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2623
cf39cf57
PH
2624PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2625 setting.
2626
f1513293
PH
2627PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2628 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2629
727549a4
PH
2630TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2631
af46795e
PH
2632PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2633 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2634 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2635 the end of the subprocess.
2636
d7b47fd0
PH
2637PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2638 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2639 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2640 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2641 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2642
ee744174
JJ
2643JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2644
b582ab87
PH
2645TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2646
41a13e0a
PH
2647PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2648 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2649
f625cc5a
PH
2650PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2651
2652PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2653
21f7af35
PH
2654PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2655 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2656 HP-UX compiler.
2657
31480e42
PH
2658PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2659
2d280592
PH
2660PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2661 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2662 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2663
7cd1141b
PH
2664PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2665 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2666
2667PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2668 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2669
750af86e
PH
2670PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2671 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2672
2673 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2674 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2675
2676 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2677 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2678 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2679 contributed by a Radius user.
2680
2681PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2682 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2683
4304270b
TK
2684TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2685 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2686
750af86e
PH
2687PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2688 available.
2689
64ffc24f
PH
2690PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2691 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2692 received.
2693
5dd9625b
PH
2694PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2695 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2696 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2697 header lines when this was not necessary.
2698
5591031b
PH
2699PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2700
ba18e66a
PH
2701PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2702 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2703 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2704 exists".
2705
9cec981f
PH
2706PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2707 -bV or -d is used.
2708
aa2b5c79
PH
2709PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2710 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2711 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2712 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2713
48a53b7f
PH
2714PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2715
1c59d63b
PH
2716PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2717
671012da
TK
2718TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2719
1509d3a8
PH
2720PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2721
2722PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2723 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2724 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2725 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2726 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2727 settings.
2728
2729PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2730
2fe1a124
PH
2731PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2732 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2733 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2734 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2735 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2736 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2737 which is clearly wrong.
2738
8800895a
PH
2739PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2740
ccfdb010
PH
2741PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2742 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2743 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2744 subsequently added.
2745
1130bfb0
PH
2746PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2747 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2748
ebcb507f
PH
2749PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2750
c35e155c
PH
2751PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2752 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2753
95d1f782
PH
2754PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2755 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2756
fd6de02e
PH
2757PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2758 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2759
58de37c5
PH
2760PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2761 recipients, not senders.
2762
261cf466
TF
2763TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2764 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2765
3ee512ff
PH
2766PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2767
e08c430f
PH
2768PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2769
bef5a11f
PH
2770PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2771 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2772 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2773 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2774
7546de58
TF
2775TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2776
e5d5a95f
TF
2777TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2778 clock is set back in time.
2779
2e88a017
TF
2780TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2781 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2782
a5f65aa4
TF
2783TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2784 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2785
e7726cbf
PH
2786PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2787 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2788 (see PH/47 above).
2789
a7fdad5b
TF
2790TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2791 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2792 header rewrites.
2793
6af56900
PH
2794PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2795 type ("H").
2796
0925ede6
PH
2797PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2798
66afa403
TF
2799TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2800 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2801 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2802
0154e85a
TF
2803TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2804 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2805 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2806 helo verification defer as a failure.
2807
16f12c76
PH
2808PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2809 actual error message.
2810
bbe902f0 2811
e5a9dba6
PH
2812Exim version 4.52
2813-----------------
2814
2815TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2816
22c3b60b
PH
2817PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2818 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2819 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2820 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2821
06a9b4b5
PH
2822TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2823
c1ac6996
PH
2824PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2825 can still be requested.
2826
9c7a242c
PH
2827PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2828 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2829 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2830 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2831
87ba3f5f
PH
2832TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2833 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2834 circumstances, but probably never did.
2835
2836PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2837 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2838 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2839 in the header line.
2840
29aba418
TF
2841TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2842
fe0dab11
TF
2843TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2844 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2845
11d337a4
TK
2846TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2847
2848TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2849
415c8f3b
PH
2850PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2851 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2852 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2853 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2854 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2855 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2856
958541e9
PH
2857PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2858 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2859 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2860 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2861 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2862 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2863
c206415f
TK
2864TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2865 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2866
2a4be8f9
PH
2867PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2868 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2869
1cba11c5
SC
2870SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2871 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2872
2873SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2874
2875SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2876
2877SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2878
2879SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2880
2881SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2882
2883SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2884
1005d00e
TK
2885TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2886
2887TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2888 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2889 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2890
2891TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2892 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2893 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2894 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2895
9b4768fa
PH
2896PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2897 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2898 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2899
2900PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2901 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2902 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2903 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2904
0d7eb84a
PH
2905PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2906 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2907 to be made).
2908
2909PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2910 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2911 should work with maildirs and everything.
2912
40727bee
TK
2913TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2914 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2915
554d2369
TF
2916TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2917 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2918
1f922db1
PH
2919PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2920 function for BDB 4.3.
2921
ef213c3b
PH
2922PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2923
8ac170f3
PH
2924PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2925 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2926 involved.
2927
b1c749bb
PH
2928PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2929 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2930 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2931 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2932 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2933 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2934
4aac9b49
PH
2935PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2936 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2937 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2938 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2939 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2940 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2941 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2942 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2943
294520c8
TK
2944TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2945 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2946 details.
2947
5bd022fe
PH
2948PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2949 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2950
90e9ce59
PH
2951PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2952 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2953 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2954 test. It is now used for both.
2955
5ea81592
PH
2956PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2957 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2958 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2959 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2960 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2961 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2962
c6c2dc1d
PH
2963PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2964 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2965 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2966 string_vformat().
2967
fffffe4c
PH
2968PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2969 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2970 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2971
9a26b6b2
PH
2972PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2973 experimental DomainKeys support:
2974
2975 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2976 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2977 the control was given.
2978
2979 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2980
4aee0225
PH
2981PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2982
32d668a5
PH
2983PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2984
8187c3f3
PH
2985PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2986 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2987 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2988 db.h files).
2989
ff790e47 2990PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2991 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2992 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2993 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2994 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2995 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2996 course.
ff790e47 2997
5417f6d1
PH
2998PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2999 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3000 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3001 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3002 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3003 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3004
59cf8544
PH
3005PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3006 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3007 do -d+all out of habit.
3008
e7ad8a65
PH
3009PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3010 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3011 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3012
ade42478
PH
3013PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3014 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3015 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3016 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3017 record types that Exim uses.
3018
182ad5cf
PH
3019PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3020 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3021 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3022 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3023 non-existent file that was broken.
3024
b0d9fc80
TK
3025TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3026 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3027
3028TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3029 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3030 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3031
3032TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3033
47c7a64a
PH
3034PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3035 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3036 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3037 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3038 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3039 same time.
3040
a388bce4
SC
3041SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3042 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3043 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3044 at a slight CPU cost.
3045
3046SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3047 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3048
3049SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3050 by Marc Sherman.
3051
0793e4ed
SC
3052SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3053
c58b88df
PH
3054PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3055 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3056
e7ad8a65 3057
7982096b
PH
3058Exim version 4.51
3059-----------------
3060
1a46a8c5
PH
3061TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3062 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3063
2f079f46 3064TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3065
3066TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3067
3068PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3069 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3070
3071PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3072 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3073 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3074 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3075 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3076 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3077 file.
3078
3079PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3080 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3081 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3082 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3083 these two options.
3084
3085PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3086 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3087 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3088 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3089 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3090 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3091 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3092 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3093
3094PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3095 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3096
3097PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3098 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3099 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3100 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3101 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3102 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3103
3104PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3105 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3106 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3107 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3108
3109PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3110 Finch).
3111
3112PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3113 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3114
49c2d5ea
PH
3115PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3116 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3117 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3118 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3119 message.
49c2d5ea 3120
bf759a8b
PH
3121PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3122
83364d30
PH
3123PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3124 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3125
7999bbd7
PH
3126PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3127 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3128 to what was transported.)
3129
7dbf77c9
PH
3130TF/01 Added $received_time.
3131
74e0617f
PH
3132PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3133 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3134 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3135 spamd_address settings.
3136
2f079f46
PH
3137PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3138 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3139 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3140 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3141 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3142
8c841523
PH
3143PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3144
7766a4f0
PH
3145PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3146 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3147 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3148 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3149 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3150
8b417f2c
PH
3151PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3152 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3153
901f42cb
PH
3154PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3155 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3156 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3157 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3158 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3159 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3160 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3161 for failure.
3162
f9b9210e
PH
3163PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3164 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3165 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3166 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3167 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3168 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3169 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3170 "input=".
3171
54cdb463
PH
3172PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3173
cf00dad6
PH
3174PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3175 driver and ACL definitions.
3176
acb1b346
PH
3177PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3178 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3179
c5ddb310
PH
3180PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3181 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3182 understands it better than I do:
3183
3184 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3185 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3186
3187 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3188 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3189 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3190 => three warnings about OTP not working
3191 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3192
3193 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3194 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3195 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3196 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3197 for each call.)
3198 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3199 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3200
3201 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3202 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3203 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3204
31619da6
PH
3205PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3206 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3207 specified.
3208
bebaf0fc
PH
3209PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3210 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3211 "Linux".
3212
475fe28a
PH
3213PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3214 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3215 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3216
3217 warn !verify = sender
3218 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3219
3220 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3221 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3222
7e8bec7a
PH
3223PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3224
3225 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3226 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3227
3228 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3229 nomenclature these days.)
3230
e4a89c47
PH
3231PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3232 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3233
5ca2a9a1
PH
3234PH/30 In these circumstances:
3235 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3236 . First host does not offer TLS;
3237 . First host accepts first address;
3238 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3239 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3240 . Second host accepts second address.
3241 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3242 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3243 address.
7e8bec7a 3244
c688b954
PH
3245PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3246 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3247 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3248 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3249 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3250
fed77020
PH
3251PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3252 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3253
7fe1560f
PH
3254PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3255 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3256
ebb6e6d5
PH
3257PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3258 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3259 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3260
9c4e8f60
PH
3261PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3262 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3263 overlooked.
3264
3265PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3266
d7174846
PH
3267PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3268 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3269 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3270 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3271 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3272 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3273 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3274
3275 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3276 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3277 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3278 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3279 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3280
3281 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3282 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3283 routed further.
3284
cfe75fc3
PH
3285PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3286 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3287 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3288 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3289 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3290 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3291
be22d70e
PH
3292PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3293
0612b098
PH
3294PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3295 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3296 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3297 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3298 printable escape sequences.
3299
2e0c1448
PH
3300PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3301 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3302 body only.
3303
447d236c
PH
3304PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3305 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3306 are as follows:
3307
3308 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3309 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3310 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3311 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3312 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3313
3314 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3315 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3316 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3317
d20976dc
PH
3318PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3319
f656d135
PH
3320PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3321 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3322 play with."
3323
2e2a30b4
PH
3324PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3325 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3326 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3327 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3328 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3329 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3330 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3331 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3332 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3333 the log output.
3334
9176e9f0
PH
3335PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3336 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3337 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3338 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3339 "make".
3340
7982096b 3341
bbe902f0
PH
3342A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3343----------------------------------------
3344
3345Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3346changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3347needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3348in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3349that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3350release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3351from 4.43.
3352
3353I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
33544.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3355those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3356historical information.
3357
3358
f7b63901 3359Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3360-----------------
3361
5fe762f6
PH
3362 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3363
139059f6 3364 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3365 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3366
7086e875
PH
3367 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3368 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3369 place.
3370
35af9f61
PH
3371 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3372 filter fails to execute.
3373
b668c215
PH
3374 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3375 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3376 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3377 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3378 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3379
a494b1e1
PH
3380 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3381
3382 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3383 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3384 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3385 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3386
c5fcb476
PH
3387 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3388 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3389 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3390 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3391 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3392
69358f02
PH
3393 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3394
5be20824
PH
339510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3396
eb2c0248
PH
339711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3398 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3399 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3400 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3401
2a3eea10
PH
340212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3403 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3404 sender verification.
3405
340613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3407 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3408
23c7ff99
PH
340914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3410
4deaf07d
PH
341115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3412 connection timeout.
3413
926e1192
PH
341416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3415 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3416
650edc6f
PH
341717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3418 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3419
2c7db3f5
PH
342018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3421 information about exactly what failed.
3422
3d235903
PH
342319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3424
7c7ad977
PH
342520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3426 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3427 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3428
981756db
PH
342921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3430 It is now set to "smtps".
3431
d4eb88df
PH
343222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3433 ignore_target_hosts.
3434
343523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3436 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3437 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3438 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3439 "[x.x.x.x]".
3440
7d468ab8
PH
344124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3442 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3443 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3444
344525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3446 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3447 wake it up if nothing else does.
3448
62c0818f
PH
344926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3450 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3451 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3452 end up negative.
3453
26034054
PH
345427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3455 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3456
af66f652
PH
345728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3458
90af77f4
PH
345929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3460 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3461 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3462 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3463 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3464 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3465 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3466 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3467
d8ef3577
PH
346830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3469 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3470 than one IP address.
3471
5cb8cbc6
PH
347231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3473 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3474 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3475 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3476
14702f5b
PH
347732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3478 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3479 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3480 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3481 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3482 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3483
063b1e99
PH
348433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3485 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3486 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3487 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3488
652e1b65
PH
348934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3490 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3491 respected.
3492
6f0c9a4f
PH
349335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3494 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3495 $sender_host_address.
3496
33397d19
PH
349736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3498 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3499 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3500 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3501 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3502 very small.
3503
7bb56e1f
PH
350437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3505
3506 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3507 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3508
ea3bc19b
PH
3509 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3510 just the host names, not the priorities.
3511
3512 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3513 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3514 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3515
ea3bc19b 3516 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3517 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3518
0bcb2a0e
PH
351938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3520 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3521 domain.
3522
2ac0e484
PH
352339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3524
4e1fde53
PH
352540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3526 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3527
de365ded
PH
352841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3529 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3530 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3531
f05da2e8
PH
353242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3533
d6453af2
PH
353443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3535
f7b63901
PH
353644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3537
353845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3539 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3540 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3541 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3542 because the tests only now provoked it.
3543
a444213a
PH
354446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3545 (this can affect the format of dates).
3546
0ec020ea
PH
354747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3548 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3549 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3550 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3551
b1206957
PH
355248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3553
355449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3555 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3556 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3557 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3558
26dd5a95
PH
355950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3560 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3561 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3562
343b2385
PH
356351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3564 autoreply.
3565
1c5466b9
PH
356652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3567 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3568 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3569 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3570 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3571 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3572 is going on).
3573
55ee9ee3
PH
357453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3575 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3576 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3577 the line.
3578
d38f8232
PH
357954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3580 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3581 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3582
3583 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3584 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3585 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3586 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3587 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3588 so I produce this patch..."
3589
3295e65b
PH
3590 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3591 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3592 is not defined.
3593
7102e136
PH
359455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3595 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3596 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3597 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3598 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3599
3ca0ba97
PH
360056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3601
c2bcbe20
PH
360257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3603 long debug lines gets shown.
3604
18ce445d
PH
360558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3606 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3607
1f5b4c3d
PH
360859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3609
3610 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3611 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3612 of $primary_hostname.
3613
b975ba52
PH
361460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3615 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3616 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3617 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3618 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3619 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3620 by change 4.50/55 above.
3621
3622 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3623 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3624 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3625 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3626 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3627 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3628 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3629
363061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3631 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3632 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3633 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3634
17ffcae7
PH
363562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3636 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3637
d95f9fdb
PH
363863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3639 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3640 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3641 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3642 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3643
86b8287f
PH
364464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3645 This has been fixed.
3646
60dc5e56
PH
364765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3648 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3649 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3650 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3651 the caching.)
3652
533244af
PH
365366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3654
a5a28604
PH
365567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3656 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3657 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3658 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3659
7e634d24
PH
366068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3661 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3662
3e11c26b
PH
366369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3664 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3665 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3666
6729cf78
PH
366770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3668 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3669 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3670 message there.
3671
00f00ca5
PH
367271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3673 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3674 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3675
c9bdd01c
PH
367672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3677 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3678 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3679 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3680
d43194df
PH
368173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3682 during host lookups.
3683
fe5b5d0b
PH
368474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3685 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3686
3687 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3688
76a2d7ba
PH
368975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3690 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3691 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3692 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3693 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3694 background.
3695
369676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3697 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3698
04f7d5b9
PH
369977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3700 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3701 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3702
bc60667e
PH
370378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3704
bb6e88ff
PH
370579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3706 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3707 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3708 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3709 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3710 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3711 process earlier.
3712
1e70f85b
PH
371380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3714 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3715 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3716 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3717 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3718
371981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3720 tables).
3721
4e01f9d6
PH
372282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3723
1ee1cef2
PH
372483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3725 "vacation" handling.
3726
6e2b4ccc
PH
372784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3728 OS variants using glibc.
3729
8e669ac1
PH
373085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3731
495ae4b0 3732
bbe902f0
PH
3733----------------------------------------------------
3734See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3735----------------------------------------------------
3736
3737
3738Exim version 4.44
3739-----------------
3740
3741 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3742 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3743 transport
3744
3745 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3746 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3747 place.
3748
3749 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3750 filter fails to execute.
3751
3752 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3753 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3754 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3755 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3756 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3757
3758 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3759 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3760 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3761 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3762
3763 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3764 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3765 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3766 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3767 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3768
3769 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3770
3771 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3772 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3773 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3774 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3775
3776 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3777 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3778 sender verification.
3779
378010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3781 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3782
378311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3784 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3785
378612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3787 ignore_target_hosts.
3788
378913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3790 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3791 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3792 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3793 "[x.x.x.x]".
3794
379514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3796 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3797 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3798
379915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3800 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3801 wake it up if nothing else does.
3802
380316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3804 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3805 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3806 end up negative.
3807
380817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3809 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3810
ea3a6f44 381118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3812
381319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3814 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3815 empty pattern.
3816
381720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3818 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3819 one IP address.
3820
ea3a6f44
NM
382121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3822 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3823 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3824 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3825 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3826 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3827
ea3a6f44
NM
382822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3829 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3830 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3831
383223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3833 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3834 $sender_host_address.
3835
383624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3837
ea3a6f44
NM
383825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3839 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3840 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3841
384226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3843 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3844
ea3a6f44
NM
384527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3846 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3847
ea3a6f44
NM
384828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3849 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3850 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3851 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3852
385329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3854 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3855 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3856
ea3a6f44
NM
385730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3858 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3859 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3860 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3861
ea3a6f44
NM
386231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3863 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3864 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3865
ea3a6f44
NM
386631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3867 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3868
ea3a6f44
NM
386932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3870 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3871 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3872 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3873 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3874 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3875 is going on).
bbe902f0 3876
ea3a6f44
NM
387733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3878 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3879 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3880 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3881 CAN-2005-0021
3882
ea3a6f44
NM
388334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3884 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3885 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3886 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3887 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3888 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3889 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3890
3891 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3892 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3893 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3894 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3895 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3896 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3897 CAN-2005-0021
3898
ea3a6f44
NM
389935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3900 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3901 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3902 CAN-2005-0022
3903
ea3a6f44
NM
390436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3905 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3906 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3907 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3908 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3909
ea3a6f44
NM
391037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3911 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3912 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3913 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3914 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3915
ea3a6f44
NM
391638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3917 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3918 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3919 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3920 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3921
3922
495ae4b0
PH
3923Exim version 4.43
3924-----------------
3925
3926 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3927 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3928 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3929 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3930 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3931 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3932 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3933
3934 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3935 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3936 the delivery.
3937
3938 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3939
3940 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3941
3942 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3943 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3944 to local_scan().
3945
3946 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3947 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3948 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3949 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3950 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3951
3952 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3953 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3954
3955 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3956
3957 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3958
395910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3960 header_sender only.
3961
396211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3963 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3964
396512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3966 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3967 affecting debugging statements).
3968
396913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3970
397114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3972 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3973 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3974 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3975 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3976 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3977 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3978 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3979 after the received time, and all would be well.
3980
398115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3982 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3983 condition in an expansion string.
3984
398516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3986
398717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3988 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3989 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3990 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3991 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3992 job under whatever limits there are.
3993
399418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3995
399619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3997 space).
3998
399920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4000 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4001 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4002 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4003 return path is set.
4004
400521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4006 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4007 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4008 binary data in such strings.
4009
401022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4011
401223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4013 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4014 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4015 failure, which is pointless.
4016
401724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4018
401925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4020
402126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4022 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4023 Sender: header lines.
4024
402527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4026 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4027 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4028
402928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4030 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4031 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4032 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4033 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4034 happens.
4035
403629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4037 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4038 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4039 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4040 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4041
404230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4043 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4044 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4045 1024.
4046
404731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4048 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4049
405032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4051 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4052
405333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4054
405532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4056
405733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4058
405934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4060 syntax error.
4061
406235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4063
406436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4065
406637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4067 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4068 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4069 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4070
407138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4072 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4073
4074
4075Exim version 4.42
4076-----------------
4077
4078 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4079 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4080 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4081 it was not quoted.
4082 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4083 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4084 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4085 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4086 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4087 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4088
4089 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4090 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4091 verification failure".
4092
4093 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4094 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4095 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4096 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4097
4098 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4099 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4100 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4101 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4102 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4103 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4104 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4105 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4106 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4107 treated as a timeout.
4108
4109 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4110 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4111 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4112 not set for Exim filters).
4113
4114 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4115 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4116 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4117
4118 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4119
4120 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4121 try to make them clearer.
4122
4123 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4124 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4125
4126 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4127
4128 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4129
413010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4131 only the Cygwin environment.
4132
413311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4134 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4135 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4136 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4137 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4138
413912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4140 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4141 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4142 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4143 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4144 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4145 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4146
414713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4148 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4149
415014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4151
4152 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4153 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4154 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4155
4156 To: susanne@some.where
4157
4158 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4159 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4160 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4161 of addresses in From: header lines).
4162
4163 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4164 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4165 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4166
4167 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4168 treated as non-personal.
4169
4170 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4171 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4172
417315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4174
417516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4176
417717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4178 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4179 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4180
418118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4182 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4183
418419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4185 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4186 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4187 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4188 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4189 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4190
419120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4192 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4193 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4194 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4195 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4196 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4197 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4198 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4199
4200 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4201
420221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4203 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4204
420522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4206 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4207 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4208
420923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4210 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4211
421224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4213 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4214 rather than long int.
4215
421625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4217
421826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4219
4220
4221Exim version 4.41
4222-----------------
4223
4224 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4225 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4226 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4227 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4228 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4229 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4230
4231
4232Exim version 4.40
4233-----------------
4234
4235 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4236 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4237
4238 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4239 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4240 socklen_t is defined.
4241
4242 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4243 always exist.
4244
4245 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4246 configured.
4247
4248 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4249 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4250 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4251 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4252 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4253
4254 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4255 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4256 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4257 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4258
4259 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4260 of flapping under certain conditions.
4261
4262 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4263 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4264 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4265
4266 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4267
426810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4269
427011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4271 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4272 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4273 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4274
427512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4276 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4277 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4278 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4279 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4280 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4281 preserved with the message after it was received.
4282
428313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4284 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4285 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4286 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4287 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4288 test suite worked just fine.
4289
429014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4291 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4292 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4293
429415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4295 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4296 string.
4297
429816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4299 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4300 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4301 does not fully solve it.
4302
430317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4304 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4305 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4306 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4307 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4308
430918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4310 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4311 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4312
431319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4314 string, for example:
4315
4316 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4317
4318 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4319 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4320 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4321 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4322 the routers could not see them.
4323
432420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4325 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4326
432721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4328 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4329 output).
4330
433122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4332 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4333 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4334 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4335 that needed quoting.
4336
433723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4338 was not being matched caselessly.
4339
434024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4341 backslashes.
4342
434325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4344 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4345 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4346 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4347 when use_sender is false.
4348
434926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4350
435127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4352
435328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4354
435529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4356 the configuration file.
4357
435830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4359 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4360
436131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4362
436332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4364 bytes in the message body.
4365
436633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4367 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4368 delivery.
4369
437034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4371
437235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4373
437436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4375 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4376 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4377 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4378 another IP address.
4379
4380
4381Exim version 4.34
4382-----------------
4383
4384 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4385 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4386
4387 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4388 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4389 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4390 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4391 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4392
4393 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4394 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4395
4396 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4397 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4398 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4399
4400 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4401 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4402 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4403
4404 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4405 for routers.
4406
4407 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4408 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4409 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4410 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4411 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4412 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4413 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4414
4415
4416Exim version 4.33
4417-----------------
4418
4419 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4420 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4421 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4422 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4423 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4424 default (and expected) setting.
4425
4426 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4427 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4428 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4429 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4430
4431 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4432 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4433
4434 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4435 in domain lists.
4436
4437 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4438 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4439 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4440 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4441 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4442 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4443
4444 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4445 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4446 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4447
4448 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4449 part (NOT match_host).
4450
4451 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4452
4453 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4454 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4455 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4456 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4457 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4458 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4459 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4460 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4461 the same named file.
4462
446310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4464 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4465 when Exim is built.
4466
446711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4468 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4469 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4470 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4471 a host name.
4472
447312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4474 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4475 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4476
447713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4478
447914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4480
448115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4482
448316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4484 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4485
448617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4487 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4488 before starting the TLS session.
4489
449018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4491
449219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4493 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4494
449520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4496 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4497 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4498 colon in the middle).
4499
4500
4501Exim version 4.32
4502-----------------
4503
4504 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4505 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4506 multiple configurations are in use.
4507
4508 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4509 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4510 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4511 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4512 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4513 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4514
4515 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4516 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4517
4518 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4519 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4520 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4521
4522 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4523 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4524 occurs.
4525
4526 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4527 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4528
4529 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4530
4531 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4532 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4533
4534 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4535
4536 -prval:sval
4537
4538 is equivalent to
4539
4540 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4541
4542 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4543 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4544 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4545 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4546 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4547
454810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4549 Exim's behaviour:
4550
4551 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4552 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4553 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4554 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4555 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4556 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4557
4558 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4559 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4560 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4561 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4562 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4563 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4564 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4565 string.
4566
4567 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4568 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4569 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4570 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4571 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4572
457311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4574
457512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4576 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4577 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4578
457913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4580
458114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4582 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4583 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4584 information.
4585
458615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4587 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4588
458916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4590 Three changes have been made:
4591
4592 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4593 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4594 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4595 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4596 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4597
4598 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4599 been restored.
4600
4601 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4602 the modified behaviour.
4603
4604
4605Exim version 4.31
4606-----------------
4607
4608 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4609 Larry Rosenman.
4610
4611 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4612 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4613
4614 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4615 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4616 try to track down a specific problem.
4617
4618 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4619 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4620 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4621
4622 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4623 warning.
4624
4625 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4626 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4627 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4628 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4629 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4630 some earlier ones do not.
4631
4632 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4633
4634 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4635 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4636 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4637 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4638 address literals are enabled, of course).
4639
4640 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4641
464210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4643 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4644 by a command such as
4645
4646 exim -f "" ...
4647
4648 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4649
465011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4651
465212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4653 remained set. It is now erased.
4654
465513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4656 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4657
465814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4659 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4660 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4661 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4662 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4663 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4664 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4665 appropriate error code.
4666
466715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4668 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4669 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4670 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4671 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4672 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4673
467416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4675 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4676 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4677
467817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4679 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4680 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4681 terminate the header.
4682
468318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4684 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4685 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4686
468719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4688 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4689 (4.30/29). In particular:
4690
4691 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4692 imposed.
4693
4694 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4695 to write a maildirsize file.
4696
4697 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4698 the transport, the new value overrides.
4699
4700 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4701 count.
4702
470320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4704 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4705 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4706 space or a tab.
4707
470821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4709 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4710 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4711 the fallback hosts.
4712
471322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4714 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4715 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4716
471723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4718 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4719 using a union.
4720
472124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4722 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4723 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4724
472525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4726
472726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4728
472927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4730
473128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4732 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4733 become corrupted.
4734
473529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4736 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4737 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4738 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4739 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4740 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4741 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4742 too great.
4743
474430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4745 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4746 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4747 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4748 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4749 incorrectly.
4750
475131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4752 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4753 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4754 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4755 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4756 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4757 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4758 cached value only when the same options are set.
4759
476032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4761
476233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4763 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4764 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4765 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4766 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4767
476834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4769 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4770 it is clearly obsolete.
4771
477235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4773 transport.
4774
477536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4776 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4777 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4778 times.
4779
478037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4781 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4782 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4783 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4784 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4785
478638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4787 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4788 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4789 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4790
479139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4792
4793 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4794
4795 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4796 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4797 2^31.
4798
479940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4800 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4801 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4802 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4803 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4804 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4805 $localpart_data.
4806
480741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4808 with the -f command-line option.
4809
481042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4811 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4812 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4813 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4814 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4815 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4816
481743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4818 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4819 line.
4820
482144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4822 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4823 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4824 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4825 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4826 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4827 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4828 buffer is too small.
4829
483045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4831 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4832
483346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4834 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4835 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4836 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4837 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4838 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4839 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4840 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4841 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4842
484347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4844 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4845 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4846
484748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4848 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4849 ACL").
4850
485149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4852 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4853 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4854 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4855 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4856
485750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4858 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4859 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4860 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4861 is set.
4862
486351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4864
486552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4866
486753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4868 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4869
487054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4871 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4872 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4873
487455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4875 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4876 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4877 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4878 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4879
488056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4881 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4882 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4883 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4884 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4885 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4886 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4887
488857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4889 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4890 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4891 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4892 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4893 the test of how many are available.
4894
489558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4896 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4897 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4898 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4899 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4900 new message is started.
4901
490259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4903 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4904
490560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4906 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4907
490861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4909 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4910 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4911 is no long logged.
4912
491362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4914 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4915 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4916 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4917 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4918 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4919 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4920
492163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4922 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4923 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4924 interpreted as octal.
4925
492664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4927 setting.
4928
492965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4930 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4931 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4932 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4933 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4934 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4935
493666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4937 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4938 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4939 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4940
4941 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4942 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4943 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4944 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4945
4946 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4947 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4948 is a bug fix.
4949
4950 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4951 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4952
495367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4954
495568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4956 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4957 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4958 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4959
496069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4961 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4962 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4963 supplied", which is not helpful.
4964
496570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4966 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4967 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4968
496971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4970 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4971 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4972 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4973 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4974 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4975 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4976 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4977
497872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4979 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4980 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4981 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4982 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4983
498473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4985 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4986 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4987 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4988 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4989 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4990
499174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4992 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4993 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4994
499575. Added write_rejectlog option.
4996
499776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4998 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4999 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5000 variables.
5001
500277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5003
500478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5005 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5006 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5007 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5008 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5009 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5010 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5011 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5012
501379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5014 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5015 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5016 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5017 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5018
501980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5020 Haardt.
5021
502281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5023 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5024 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5025 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5026 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5027 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5028 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5029 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5030 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5031
5032
5033Exim version 4.30
5034-----------------
5035
5036 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5037 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5038 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5039
5040 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5041 fixed.
5042
5043 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5044 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5045 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5046
5047 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5048 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5049 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5050 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5051 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5052 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5053
5054 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5055 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5056 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5057 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5058 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5059 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5060 the Exim test suite.
5061
5062 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5063 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5064 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5065 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5066
5067 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5068 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5069 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5070 specify it in this variable.
5071
5072 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5073 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5074 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5075 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5076
5077 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5078 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5079 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5080 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5081
5082 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5083 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5084 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5085 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5086 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5087
5088 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5089
509010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5091 they are logged.
5092
509311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5094 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5095 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5096 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5097 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5098
509912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5100 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5101
510213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5103 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5104 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5105 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5106 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5107
510814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5109 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5110
511115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5112 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5113 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5114
511516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5116 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5117
511817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5119 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5120
512118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5122 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5123 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5124
512519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5126 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5127
512820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5129 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5130 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5131 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5132
513321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5134
513522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5136 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5137 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5138 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5139
514023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5141
514224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5143 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5144
514525. Added .include_if_exists.
5146
514726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5148 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5149 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5150 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5151 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5152 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5153
515427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5155
515628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5157 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5158 this.
5159
516029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5161
516230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5163 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5164
5165 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5166 550 Sender verify failed
5167
5168 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5169 the final line of the response.
5170
517131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5172 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5173 all other user lookups.
5174
517532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5176 delivery time.
5177
517833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5179 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5180 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5181 result into an int without checking.
5182
518334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5184 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5185 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5186
518735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5188 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5189 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5190 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5191
519236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5193 correctly.
5194
519537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5196 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5197
519838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5199 to the empty sender.
5200
520139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5202 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5203 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5204 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5205 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5206 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5207 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5208 panic log.
5209
521040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5211 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5212 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5213 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5214 used.
5215
521641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5217 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5218
521942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5220 timestamps.
5221
522243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5223 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5224
522544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5226
522745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5228 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5229 logs.
5230
523146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5232 as soon as it is encountered.
5233
523447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5235
523648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5237 rewritten to "<>".
5238
523949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5240 recognizes a tab character.
5241
524250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5243 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5244 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5245 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5246
524751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5248
524952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5250 crash.
5251
525253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5253
525454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5255
525655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5257 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5258 2822.
5259
526056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5261 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5262 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5263 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5264 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5265
526657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5267 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5268
526958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5270 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5271 list (.included file names were always shown).
5272
527359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5274 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5275 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5276 root at that time.
5277
527860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5279 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5280
528161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5282
528362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5284
528563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5286
528764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5288 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5289 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5290 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5291 failures to open the logs.
5292
529365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5294 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5295 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5296 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5297 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5298 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5299 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5300
5301
5302Exim version 4.24
5303-----------------
5304
5305 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5306 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5307 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5308 change 4.23/1.
5309
5310 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5311 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5312 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5313
5314 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5315 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5316 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5317
5318 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5319 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5320 causing some misleading effects.
5321
5322 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5323 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5324 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5325
5326 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5327 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5328 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5329 queue-runner function directly.
5330
5331
5332Exim version 4.23
5333-----------------
5334
5335 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5336 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5337
5338 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5339 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5340 was always written to the default place.
5341
5342 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5343 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5344 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5345
5346 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5347
5348 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5349
5350 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5351 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5352 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5353
5354 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5355 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5356 must start.
5357
5358 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5359 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5360 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5361
5362 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5363 command line option is disabled.
5364
5365 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5366 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5367
5368 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5369
5370 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5371
5372 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5373 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5374
537510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5376
537711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5378 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5379 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5380 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5381 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5382 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5383
538412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5385 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5386 timeout.
5387
538813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5389 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5390
539114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5392 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5393
539415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5395 received was valid base64.
5396
539716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5398 name of the variable that was being set.
5399
540017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5401
540218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5403 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5404 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5405 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5406 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5407 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5408
540919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5410
541120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5412 nor realm was specified.
5413
541421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5415 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5416 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5417 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5418
541922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5420 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5421 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5422
542323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5424 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5425 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5426
542724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5428 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5429 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5430 some systems use these upper case variants.
5431
543225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5433 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5434 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5435 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5436
543726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5438
543927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5440 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5441
544228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5443 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5444 expansion variable.
5445
544629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5447
544830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5449 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5450 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5451 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5452
545331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5454 using it.
5455
545632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5457 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5458 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5459
546033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5461 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5462
546334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5464 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5465 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5466 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5467
546835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5469 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5470 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5471
547236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5473
547437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5475 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5476 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5477 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5478 aborted.
5479
548038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5481 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5482 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5483
548439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5485
548640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5487 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5488
548941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5490 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5491
549242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5493 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5494 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5495 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5496 when emails are that large.
5497
5498
5499
5500Exim version 4.22
5501-----------------
5502
5503 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5504 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5505
5506 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5507 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5508 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5509
5510 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5511 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5512 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5513
5514 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5515 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5516 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5517 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5518 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5519
5520 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5521 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5522 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5523 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5524 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5525 ever.
5526
5527 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5528 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5529 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5530 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5531 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5532 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5533 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5534 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5535 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5536 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5537 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5538 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5539 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5540 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5541
5542 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5543 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5544 parameterised it.
5545
5546 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5547 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5548 error should be diagnosed.
5549
5550 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5551 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5552 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5553 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5554 appeared instead of "NULL".
5555
555610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5557 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5558 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5559 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5560 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5561 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5562 proceeds).
5563
5564 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5565 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5566 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5567
5568
5569Exim version 4.21
5570-----------------
5571
5572 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5573 or receiver verification errors.
5574
5575 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5576 name.
5577
5578 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5579 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5580 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5581 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5582
5583 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5584 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5585 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5586 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5587 shouldn't happen again.
5588
5589 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5590 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5591 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5592
5593 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5594 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5595
5596 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5597
5598 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5599 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5600
5601 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5602 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5603 RFC.
5604
560510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5606 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5607 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5608
560911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5610 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5611 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5612 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5613
561412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5615 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5616 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5617 to define what should happen).
5618
561913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5620 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5621 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5622
562314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5624
562515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5626
562716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5628 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5629
563017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5631 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5632 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5633 structure in all cases.
5634
5635 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5636 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5637 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5638 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5639
564018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5641 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5642 domain name.
5643
564419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5645 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5646
564720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5648 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5649
565021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5651 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5652 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5653
565422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5655 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5656 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5657
565823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5659 the book and for uniformity.
5660
566124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5662
566325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5664 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5665 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5666 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5667 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5668 non-existent command as the problem.
5669
567026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5671 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5672 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5673
567427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5675
567628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5677 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5678 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5679
568029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5681 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5682 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5683 timestamps using strftime().
5684
568530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5686 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5687
568832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5689 transport-time rewrites.
5690
569133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5692 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5693 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5694 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5695
569634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5697 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5698
569935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5700 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5701 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5702 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5703 comma and a space.
5704
570536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5706 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5707 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5708 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5709 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5710 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5711 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5712
571337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5714 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5715 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5716 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5717 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5718
571938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5720 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5721 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5722 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5723 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5724 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5725 remaining text gets split now.
5726
572739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5728 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5729 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5730 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5731
573240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5733 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5734 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5735 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5736 $return_path.
5737
573841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5739 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5740 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5741 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5742 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5743 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5744 passed through if needed.
5745
574642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5747 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5748 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5749 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5750 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5751 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5752
575343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5754 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5755 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5756 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5757 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5758
575944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5760 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5761 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5762 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5763 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5764
576545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5766 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5767 noticed.
5768
576946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5770 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5771 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5772 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5773 mayhem of various kinds.
5774
577547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5776 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5777 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5778 the right test for positive values.
5779
578048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5781 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5782 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5783 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5784 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5785 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5786 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5787 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5788 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5789 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5790 envelope.
5791
579249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5793 module.
5794
579550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5796 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5797 forbidding it.
5798
579951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5800 the existing equality matching.
5801
580252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5803 dealing with inode numbers.
5804
580553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5806 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5807 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5808
580954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5810 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5811 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5812 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5813 local_scan().
5814
581555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5816 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5817 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5818 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5819 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5820 relay addresses has also been removed.
5821
582256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5823
582457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5825 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5826 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5827
582858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5829 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5830 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5831 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5832 processing applies to CR:
5833
5834 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5835 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5836
5837 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5838 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5839 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5840 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5841
584259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5843 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5844 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5845
584660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5847 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5848 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5849 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5850 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5851 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5852 arisen.
5853
585461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5855 program routers.
5856
585762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5858 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5859 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5860 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5861 adds:
5862
5863 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5864
5865 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5866
5867 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5868
586963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5870 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5871 not considered personal.
5872
587364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5874
587565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5876
587766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5878
587967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5880 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5881 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5882 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5883 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5884 header lines, and spool format errors.
5885
588668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5887 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5888 for more flexibility.
5889
589069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5891 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5892 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5893
589470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5895 Sabourenkov.
5896
589771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5898 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5899 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5900 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5901 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5902 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5903 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5904 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5905 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5906
590772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5908 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5909 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5910 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5911 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5912 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5913 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5914
591573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5916 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5917 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5918
591974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5920 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5921 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5922 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5923 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5924 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5925 instead of killing the process with assert().
5926
592775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5928 than Unicode encoding.
5929
593076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5931 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5932 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5933 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5934
593577. Added process_log_path.
5936
593778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5938 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5939
594079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5941 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5942
594380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5944 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5945 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5946
594781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5948 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5949 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5950 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5951 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5952 were applied:
5953
5954 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5955 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5956 as invalid.
5957
595882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5959 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5960 they will be used during message reception.
5961
5962
5963Exim version 4.20
5964-----------------
5965
5966The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5967
5968****