Move DSN support to mainline
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
8c408560 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
31a4354e 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
0509be35 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
0509be35 28
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
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40Exim version 4.85
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42TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
43 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
44 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
45 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
46 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
47 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
48 the script parsing/test process like normal.
49
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50TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
51 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
52 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
53 function when detected.
54
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55JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
56 cause callback expansion.
57
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58TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
59 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
60 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
61 instead of bool when processing it.
62
0f06b4f2 63JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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64 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
65
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66JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
67
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68JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
69
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70TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
71
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72TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
73 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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75JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
76 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
77 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
78 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
79 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
80 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
81
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82JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
83 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
84 exceeded it.
85
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86JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
87 version 3.3.6 or later.
88
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89JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
90 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
91 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 92 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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93 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
94 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
95 option is defined.
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97TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
98 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
99
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100JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
101 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
102 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
103 matches.
104
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105JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
106 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
107 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
108
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109JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length parameter in the
110 incoming message.
111
112JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
113 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
114 syntax errors.
115
116JH/13 Buf 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
117
118JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
119 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
120
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122Exim version 4.84
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124TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
125 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
126 return.
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128JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
129 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
130
131JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
132
133TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 134 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 135
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139
140TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
141
142 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
143 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
144 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
145 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
146 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
147 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
148
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149TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
150 utilities have not been installed.
151
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152JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
153 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
154
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155TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
156 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
157
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158TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
159 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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160 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
161 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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163JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
164
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165TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
166 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
167
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168PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
169 not dns_use_dnssec.
170
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171JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
172
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173TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
174 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
175 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
176
8ddef691 177TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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178 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
179 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
180 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
181 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 182 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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184JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
185
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186JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
187 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
188
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189JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
190 failed delivery.
191
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192JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
193
511a6c14 194JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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196JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
197 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 198
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199JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
200 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
201
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202TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
203
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204JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
205
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206JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
207 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
208
209 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
210 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
211 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
212
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213TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
214 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
215 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
216 analysis.
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218JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
219
8c51eead 220JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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221 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
222 lookup).
8c51eead 223
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224TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
225 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
226 Schlichting.
35aba663 227
fd3b6a4a 228JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 229 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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231TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
232 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
233
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234JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
235
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236TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
237 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
238 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
239
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240JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
241 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
242
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243JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
244 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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245 hosts_request_ocsp.
246
ed3bba5f 247JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 248 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 249 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 250
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251JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
252
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253TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
254 Christian Aistleitner.
255
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256JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
257
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258TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
259 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
260
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261JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
262 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
263
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264JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
265 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
266
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267TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
268 support and error reporting did not work properly.
269
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270TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
271 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
272
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273TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
274 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
275 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
276
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277JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
278
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279PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
280 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
281 Jasper Wallace.
282
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283JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
284
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285TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
286 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
287 CVE-2014-2972
288
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292
293PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
294
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295PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
296 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
297
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298PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
299 by GnuTLS.
300
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301PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
302 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
303 routines.
304
13363eba 305PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 306
66645890 307PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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308 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
309 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
310 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
311 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 312
a3fb9793 313PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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314 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
315 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
316 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 317 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 318 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 319
d27f98fe 320TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 321
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322TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
323
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324TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
325 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
326
ae0e32ee 327TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 328 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 329 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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331TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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333TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
334
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335TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
336 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
337
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338JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
339
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340JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
341
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342PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
343
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344NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
345 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 346
585121e2 347JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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349PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
350 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
351 function.
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353PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
354 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
355
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356JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
357 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
358 "acl = name arg..."
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360JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
361
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362JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
363
ea722490 364JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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365 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
366
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367JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
368 Bugzilla 884.
369
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370JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
371 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
372
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373JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
374 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
375
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376PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
377 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 378 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 379
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380JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
381 authenticators.
382
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383JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
384 for control.
385
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386PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
387
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388PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
389 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
390 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
391 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
392
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393TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
394
395 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
396 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
397 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
398 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
399 the retry rules.
400
401 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
402 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
403 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
404
405 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
406 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
407 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
408 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
409
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410 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
411 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
412 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
413 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
414 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
415 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
416 delivery, as in LMTP.
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418 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
419 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
420
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421TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
422
423 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
424
425 Resent-From: f
426
427 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
428 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
429 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
430 username as equal to the username.
431
432 This change corrects that bug.
433
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434GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
435 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
436 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
437
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438TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
439
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440PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
441 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
442 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
443 NULL dereference and crash.
444
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445JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
446
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447PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
448 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
449 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
450
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451SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
452
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453JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
454 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
455 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
456 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
457 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
458 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
459 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
460 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
461 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
462 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
463 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
464
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465PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
466 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
467
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468PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
469 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
470 Bugzilla 880.
471
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472PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
473 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
474 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
475 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
476 an empty string is now equivalent.
477
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478PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
479 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
480 not performing validation itself.
481
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482PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
483 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
484
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485JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
486 Bugzilla 321, 823.
487
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488TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
489
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490PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
491 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
492 other false fix of the same issue.
493 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
494 Bugzilla 1363.
495
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496PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
497 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
498
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499PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
500 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
501 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
502
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503PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
504 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
505 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
506
c5c2182f
PP
507TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
508
73431ca9
JH
509JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
510
2d07a215
TL
511TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
512 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
513
a30a8861
TL
514TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
515 Alexander Miroch.
516
33382dd9
TL
517TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
518 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
519 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
520 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
521 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 522
046172e6
TL
523TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
524 the src/util/ subdirectory.
525
581d7bee 526TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 527 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
528 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
529
530TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
531 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
532 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
533 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
534
237b2cf2
TL
535TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
536
9fc5a352
TL
537TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
538 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
539 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 540
b10e4ec2
TL
541TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
542
e2cebd74
TL
543TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
544 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
545 interaction.
546
547TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
548 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
549
2519e60d
TL
550TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
551 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
552
e78e6ecf 553
4263f395
PP
554Exim version 4.80.1
555-------------------
556
557PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
558 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 559 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 560
ea722490 561
b1770b6e 562Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
563-----------------
564
565PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
566 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
567 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
568
23c7e742
NM
569NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
570
b322aac8
NM
571NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
572 improved.
573
4a891427
NM
574NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
575
c1e794ba 576PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 577
97753960
PP
578PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
579
580PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
581 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
582
df6303fa
PP
583PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
584 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
585
7e6a8985
PP
586PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
587 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
588
f1e05cc7 589PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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590 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
591 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 592
4c287009
PP
593PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
594
b98bb9ac
PP
595PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
596 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
597
4a6a987a
PP
598PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
599
c45dd180 600PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 601
7db8d074
PP
602PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
603 non-compliant senders.
604 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
605
eae0036b 606NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
607 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
608 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
609
dec5017e
PP
610PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
611 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
612 in spool file corruption.
613
c80c5570
PP
614PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
615 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
616 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
617 "Got SSL error 2".
618
076b11e2
PP
619TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
620 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
621 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
622
5407bfff
JH
623JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
624 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
625
9e45c72b
PP
626JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
627
e74376d8
PP
628PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
629 diagnostics.
630 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
631
da3ad30d
PP
632PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
633 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
634 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
635
7be682ca
PP
636PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
637 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
638 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
639 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 640
ef840681
PP
641PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
642 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
643
5bfb4cdf
PP
644PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
645 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
646 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
647 resolver implementation change.
648
c6e95d22
PP
649PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
650 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
651
9cbad13b
PP
652PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
653
9ee44efb
PP
654PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
655
6a6084f8
PP
656PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
657 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
658
12dd53c7
PP
659PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
660 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
661
9e45c72b 662JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
663 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
664
17c76198
PP
665PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
666 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
667 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
668 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 669 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 670
53947857 671PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 672
eae0036b 673PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
674 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
675 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 676
9e45c72b 677JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 678
7390e768
PP
679PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
680 read-only, out of scope).
681 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
682
08488c86
PP
683PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
684 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
685 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
686 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
687
6475bd82
PP
688PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
689
81f91683
PP
690PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
691 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
692 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
693 real issues in debug logging.
694
5779e6aa
PP
695PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
696 assignment on my part. Fixed.
697
3375e053
PP
698PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
699 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
700 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
701
702PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
703 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
704 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
705 problems.
3375e053 706
9d26b8c0
PP
707PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
708 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
709
57eb9e91 710PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
711 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
712 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
713 needs to override this, it can.
714
16880d1a
PP
715PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
716 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
717 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
718
a799883d
PP
719PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
720 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
721 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
722 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
723
3ecab157 724PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 725
0599f9cf 726
867fcbf5
PP
727Exim version 4.77
728-----------------
729
730PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
731 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
732
f1a29782
TF
733TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
734
ab42bd23
TK
735TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
736 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 737
0ca0cf52
TF
738TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
739 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
740
921b12ca
TF
741TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
742 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
743 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
744
745 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
746 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
747 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
748 not safe for signals.
749
750 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
751 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
752 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
753 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
754 exiwhat.
755
c99ce5c9
TF
756TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
757
758 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
759 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
760 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
761 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
762 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
763
764 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
765 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
766 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
767 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
768 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
769 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
770
771 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
772 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
773 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
774 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
775
776 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
777 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
778 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
779 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
780
781 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
782 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
783 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
784 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
785 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
786 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
787 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
788 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
789 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
790
791 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
792 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
793 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
794 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
795
796 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
797 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
798 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
799 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
800 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
801 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
802 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
803 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
804 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
805 details in the main documentation.
806
3634fc25
TF
807TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
808
792e8a19
TF
809TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
810
5901f0ab
TF
811TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
812 repository when doing development or release builds.
813
7f2a2a43
PP
814PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
815 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 816
061b7ebd
PP
817PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
818 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
819 Bugzilla 97.
820
e12f8c32
PP
821PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
822
9e949f00 823PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
824 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
825
826PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
827 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 828
555ae6af 829PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
830 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
831
832PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
833 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 834
6f7fe114
PP
835PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
836 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
837
c566dd90
PP
838PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
839 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
840 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
841 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 842
d6cc7c78 843PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
844 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
845 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
846
0d0e4455
PP
847PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
848
3399bb60 849PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
850
851PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
852 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
853
0ca0cf52 854
10906672
PP
855Exim version 4.76
856-----------------
857
858PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
859
754a0503
PP
860PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
861 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
862
c0c7b2da
PP
863PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
864
e97d1f08
PP
865PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
866
084c1d8c
PP
867PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
868 Bugzilla 1098.
869
4e7ee012
PP
870PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
871 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 872
c8d52a00
PP
873TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
874 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
875
54e7ce4a
PP
876PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
877 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
878
5ee6f336
PP
879PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
880 Bugzilla 1104.
881
c8d52a00 882TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
883 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
884
885TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
886 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
887 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
888 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
889
890PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
891 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 892
10906672 893
aa097c4c
NM
894Exim version 4.75
895-----------------
896
4c9ef03a 897NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
898 Bugzilla 1073
899
7f3d9eff
TF
900TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
901 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
902 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
903
159f52d2
TF
904TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
905 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
906
0cc9542a
PP
907PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
908 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
909 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
910
f7274286
PP
911PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
912 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
913
7b797365
PP
914PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
915 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
916
caacae52
NM
917NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
918 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
919
09dcaba9
NM
920NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
921 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
922
bc19a55b
PP
923PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
924 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 925
bd4c9759
NM
926NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
927 Fixes bug 943.
928
b72aab72
PP
929PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
930 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
931
2fe76745
PP
932PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
933 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
934
76aa570c
PP
935PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
936 SQL string expansion failure details.
937 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
938
f1e5fef5
PP
939PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
940 Patch from Simon Arlott.
941
4d805ee9
PP
942PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
943 extern declarations in function scope.
944 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
945
cd59ab18
PP
946PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
947 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
948 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
949 a kernel bug).
950
332f5cf3
PP
951PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
952 Patch from Mark Zealey.
953
29cfeb94
PP
954PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
955 Patch from Mark Zealey.
956
660242ad
PP
957PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
958 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
959
bc4bc4c5
PP
960PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
961 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
962
2e64baa9
NM
963NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
964 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
965 Dennis Davis.
966
bddd7526
PP
967PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
968
6bac1a9a
PP
969PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
970
552193f0
NM
971NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
972 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 973
1b587e48
TF
974TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
975 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
976
aa097c4c 977
8c07b69f
TF
978Exim version 4.74
979-----------------
980
981TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
982 consequences so log it to the panic log.
983
c0ea85ab
TF
984TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
985 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
986
0761d44e
TF
987TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
988
0a349494
PP
989DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
990 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
991 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
992
993PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
994 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
995 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
996
fea24b2e
PP
997PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
998 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
999 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1000 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1001
6545de78
PP
1002PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1003 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1004 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1005 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1006
1670ef10
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1007PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1008 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1009 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1010 arbitrary files.
1011
c0886197
PP
1012PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1013 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1014
b7487bce
PP
1015PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1016 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1017 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1018 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1019 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1020
8c07b69f 1021
97fd1e48 1022Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1023-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1024
1025PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1026 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1027 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1028
6901c596
PP
1029PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1030 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1031
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1032JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1033
77bb000f
PP
1034PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1035
a29e5231
PP
1036PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1037
ec5a0394 1038PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1039
55c75993
PP
1040PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1041
453a6645 1042PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1043 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1044 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1045 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1046
8544e77a
PP
1047PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1048 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1049 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1050 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1051 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1052
83e029d5
PP
1053PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1054
ed7f7860
PP
1055PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1056
7d9f747b
PP
1057PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1058
4b2241d2
PP
1059PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1060
10385c15
PP
1061PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1062
dbc4b90d
PP
1063PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1064
532be449
PP
1065PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1066
6a8de854 1067PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1068 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1069 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1070
5dc43717
JJ
1071JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1072
1073JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1074 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1075
3346ab01
PP
1076PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1077 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1078
491fab4c
PP
1079PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1080 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1081 Notification from John Horne.
1082
13eb9497
PP
1083PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1084 compatible.
1085
1086PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1087 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1088 it normally works.
1089
7f36d675
DW
1090DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1091 access.
1092
c1d94452
DW
1093DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1094 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1095 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1096
e2f5dc15
DW
1097DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1098 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1099 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1100 configuration file.
1101
cd25e41d
DW
1102DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1103 option (effectively making it always true).
1104
261dc43e
DW
1105DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1106 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1107
fa32850b
DW
1108DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1109 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1110
79d4bc3d
PP
1111PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1112 run-time user, instead of root.
1113
43236f35 1114PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1115 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1116
fb08281f
DW
1117DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1118 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1119 arguments.
3346ab01 1120
74935b98
DW
1121DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1122 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1123 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1124
90b6341f
DW
1125DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1126
57730b52
ML
1127NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1128
66581d1e 1129
465e92cf
JJ
1130Exim version 4.72
1131-----------------
1132
453a6645
PP
1133JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1134 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1135 typos
465e92cf 1136
453a6645
PP
1137JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1138 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1139 (Finput)
edae0343 1140
9bd3e22c
NM
1141NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1142 Patch from Alain Williams
1143
bb576ff7
NM
1144NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1145
5a1a5845
NM
1146NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1147 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1148
981a9fad
NM
1149NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1150 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1151
7fc497ee
NM
1152NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1153
1a41defa
JJ
1154JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1155
a466095c 1156NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1157 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1158
94a6bd0b
NM
1159TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1160
1161TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1162
1163MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1164 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1165 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1166
c1b141a8
NM
1167NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1168 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1169
b26eacf1 1170NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1171 Patch by Simon Arlott
1172
179c5980 1173PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1174 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1175
9bd3e22c 1176
7c6d71af
NM
1177Exim version 4.71
1178-----------------
1179
7d9f747b 1180TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1181
f013fb92
NM
1182NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1183
0eb8eedd
NM
1184NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1185
663ee6d9
NM
1186NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1187
177ebd9b
NM
1188NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1189
7c6d71af 1190
210f147e
NM
1191Exim version 4.70
1192-----------------
1193
cdd3bb85 1194TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1195 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1196
1197TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1198 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1199 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1200
1201TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1202 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1203 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1204
1205TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1206 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1207
210f147e
NM
1208NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1209 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1210 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1211 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1212
deafd5b3
NM
1213NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1214 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1215 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1216
089793a4
TF
1217TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1218
5f16ca82
TF
1219TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1220
dae9d94e 1221NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1222 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1223
7d9f747b 1224NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1225
06864c44
TF
1226TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1227 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1228 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1229 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1230
65a7d8c3 1231NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1232 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1233
23510047 1234TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1235
7d9f747b 1236NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1237
7d8eec3a 1238NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1239 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1240
89dec7b6
TF
1241TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1242 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1243
a99de90c
TF
1244TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1245 that they are available at delivery time.
1246
e2803e40
TF
1247TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1248
7199e1ee
TF
1249TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1250 incoming_port log selectors.
1251
e276e04b
TF
1252TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1253 setting expands to an empty string.
1254
ce552449 1255NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1256 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1257
e765a0f1 1258NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1259 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1260
4f054c63 1261NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1262 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1263
7d9f747b
PP
1264NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1265 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1266
7d9f747b
PP
1267NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1268 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1269
b52bc06e 1270NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1271 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1272
447de4b0
NM
1273NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1274
4c69d561 1275NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1276 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1277
d5c39246 1278NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1279 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1280
0b23848a
TK
1281TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1282
8f3414a1 1283NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1284 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1285
fb6f955d
NM
1286NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1287
1288NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1289
7d9f747b
PP
1290NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1291 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1292
7d9f747b
PP
1293NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1294 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1295
7d9f747b
PP
1296NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1297 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1298
7d9f747b
PP
1299NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1300 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1301
7d9f747b
PP
1302NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1303 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1304
7d9f747b
PP
1305NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1306 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1307
7d9f747b
PP
1308NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1309 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1310
7d9f747b 1311NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1312 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1313
7d9f747b 1314NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1315
7d9f747b
PP
1316NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1317 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1318
7d9f747b 1319NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1320
7d9f747b 1321NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1322
7d9f747b 1323NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1324
7d9f747b 1325NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1326
17792b53 1327NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1328 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1329
7d9f747b
PP
1330NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1331 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1332
91576cec 1333NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1334 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1335
7d9f747b
PP
1336NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1337 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1338
7d9f747b 1339NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1340
7d9f747b 1341NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1342
7d9f747b 1343NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1344
7d9f747b 1345NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1346
deafd5b3 1347
47db1125
NM
1348Exim version 4.69
1349-----------------
1350
4b3504d0
TK
1351TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1352 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1353 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1354
1355 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1356 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1357 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1358 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1359 build errors in sieve.c.
1360
81ea09ca
NM
1361NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1362 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1363 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1364
f13cddcb
SC
1365SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1366
7d9f747b 1367NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1368
7d9f747b 1369NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1370
7d9f747b 1371NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1372
1373
eb4c0de6
PH
1374Exim version 4.68
1375-----------------
1376
1377PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1378
6a3bceb1
PH
1379PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1380 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1381 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1382 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1383 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1384 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1385 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1386 for iplsearch lookups.
1387
1388 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1389 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1390 previously such lookups could never work.
1391
1392 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1393 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1394 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1395
2e30fa9d
TK
1396TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1397 version.
1398
0806a9c5
MH
1399MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1400 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1401 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1402 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1403 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1404 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1405
ae276964
TK
1406TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1407 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1408
0f2cbd1b
MH
1409MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1410 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1411 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1412 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1413 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1414 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1415
2b85bce7
PH
1416PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1417 local_scan API.
1418
93655c46
PH
1419PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1420
6c512171
PH
1421PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1422 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1423 encrypted.
1424
1425PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1426 by clients under certain conditions.
1427
aa6dc513
PH
1428PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1429 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1430
a96603a0
PH
1431PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1432
8f240103
PH
1433PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1434 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1435
1436PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1437
d677b2f2
PH
1438PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1439
d52120f2
PH
1440PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1441
64f2600a
PH
1442PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1443 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1444
8669f003
PH
1445PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1446
a4dc33a8
PH
1447PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1448 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1449
d6a60c0f
PH
1450PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1451
8f128379
PH
1452PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1453
8932dffe
PH
1454PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1455 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1456 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1457 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1458
ddea74fa 1459PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1460 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1461 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1462
ddea74fa 1463PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1464 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1465
ddea74fa
PH
1466PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1467
ce9f225c
PH
1468PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1469
19897d52
PH
1470PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1471
bc64a74d
PH
1472PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1473 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1474 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1475
eb4c0de6 1476
b4ed4da0
PH
1477Exim version 4.67
1478-----------------
1479
22ad45c9
MH
1480MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1481 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1482 Jan Srzednicki.
1483
b4ed4da0
PH
1484PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1485 issue a MAIL command.
1486
431b7361
PH
1487PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1488
1489 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1490
1491 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1492 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1493 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1494 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1495 item. This has been fixed.
1496
1497PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1498 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1499
83da1223
PH
1500PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1501 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1502
54fc8428
PH
1503PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1504 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1505 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1506
34c5e8dd
SC
1507SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1508
bbe15da8
PH
1509PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1510 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1511 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1512 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1513 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1514
0e8a9471
MH
1515MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1516 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1517 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1518
f0872424
PH
1519PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1520 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1521 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1522 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1523
b01dd148
PH
1524PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1525
6bf342e1
PH
1526PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1527
273f34d0
PH
1528PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1529 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1530 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1531 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1532 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1533
cf8b11a5
PH
1534PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1535
41c7c167
PH
1536PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1537 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1538 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1539 values).
1540
9c57cbc0
PH
1541PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1542
f3f065bb
PH
1543PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1544
047bdd8c
PH
1545PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1546
0ce9abe6
PH
1547PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1548
0e22dfd1
PH
1549PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1550
4c590bd1
PH
1551PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1552 no_callout_flush is set.
1553
09945f1e
PH
1554PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1555 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1556 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1557 fixed.
1558
c51b8e75
PH
1559PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1560
e28326d8
PH
1561PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1562 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1563 other ACL rejections are.
1564
75b1493f
PH
1565PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1566 with slight modification.
1567
7c5214ec
PH
1568PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1569 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1570
4311097e
PH
1571PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1572 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1573 connection.
1574
29f89cad
PH
1575PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1576 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1577
5e687460
SC
1578SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1579
c3611384
PH
1580PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1581 expansion side effects.
1582
5a11a7b4
PH
1583PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1584 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1585 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1586 be the same.
1587
0e20aff9
MH
1588MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1589 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1590 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1591
ca86f471
PH
1592PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1593 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1594 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1595 were accidentally chopped off.
1596
a14e5636
PH
1597PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1598 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1599 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1600 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1601 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1602 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1603 pipelining has not been advertised.
1604
ec95d1a6
PH
1605PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1606
42855d71
PH
1607PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1608 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1609 This has been fixed.
1610
57c2c631
PH
1611PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1612 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1613 reported on Solaris.
1614
58c01c94
PH
1615PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1616 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1617 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1618 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1619 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1620 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1621 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1622
dee5a20a
PH
1623PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1624 cpus.
1625
d2ee6114
PH
1626PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1627
b2d5182b
PH
1628PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1629
79749a79
PH
1630PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1631 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1632 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1633 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1634 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1635 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1636
c456d9bb
PH
1637PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1638 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1639 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1640 host_all_ignored option.
1641
cd9868ec
PH
1642PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1643 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1644 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1645 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1646 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1647 is what is supposed to happen).
1648
ebeaf996
PH
1649PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1650 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1651 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1652 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1653 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1654 uses the Exim user.
1655
2679d413
PH
1656PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1657 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1658 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1659 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1660 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1661 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1662 users.
1663
84024b72
PH
1664PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1665
8005d38e
SC
1666SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1667 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1668 (Jez Hancock).
1669 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1670 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1671
3298c6c6
SC
1672SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1673
a43a27c5
PH
1674PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1675
58eb016e 1676PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1677 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1678 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1679 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1680 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1681 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1682 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1683 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1684 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1685 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1686 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1687
b43a74ea
PH
1688PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1689 advertised in response to EHLO.
1690
b4ed4da0 1691
5dd1517f
PH
1692Exim version 4.66
1693-----------------
1694
1695PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1696 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1697
1698 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1699 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1700
1701 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1702 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1703 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1704
1705 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1706 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1707 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1708 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1709 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1710
1711
93cfa765
TK
1712Exim version 4.65
1713-----------------
1714
1715TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1716 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1717 versions. (#438)
1718
d6066548
MH
1719MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1720 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1721 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1722
4362ff0d
PH
1723PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1724 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1725 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1726 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1727 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1728 rather than extend the field.
1729
93cfa765 1730
944e9e9c
TF
1731Exim version 4.64
1732-----------------
aa41d2de 1733
21d74bd9
TK
1734TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1735 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1736 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1737 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1738 these files.
1739
1740TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1741 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1742 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1743
1744TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1745 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1746 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1747
1748TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1749 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1750 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1751 in the field name.
1752
2b1c6e3a
PH
1753PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1754 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1755 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1756 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1757 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1758 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1759 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1760 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1761 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1762 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1763 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1764
1f872c80
PH
1765PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1766 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1767
1768PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1769 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1770 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1771 ignores EPIPE as well.
1772
d203e649
PH
1773PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1774 (quoted-printable decoding).
1775
cc2ed8f7 1776PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1777 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1778
ddfcd446
PH
1779PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1780
d45b1de8
PH
1781PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1782
1783PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1784
38a0a95f 1785PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1786 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1787
a2405d83
JJ
1788JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1789 in 4.64-PH/09.
1790
1791JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1792 miscellaneous code fixes
1793
6ea85e9a
PH
1794PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1795 rejections.
1796
26da7e20
PH
1797PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1798 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1799 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1800 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1801 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1802 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1803 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1804 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1805
14aa5a05 1806PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1807 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1808 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1809 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1810 function.
1811 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1812 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1813 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1814 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1815 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1816 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1817 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1818 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1819 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1820
ff75a1f7
PH
1821PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1822 decoding.
1823
e6f6568e
PH
1824PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1825 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1826 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1827 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1828 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1829 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1830 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1831 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1832
d6f6e0dc
PH
1833PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1834 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1835 list.
1836
322050c2
PH
1837PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1838 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1839 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1840 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1841 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1842 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1843 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1844 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1845 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1846 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1847 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1848 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1849 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1850
08955dd3
PH
1851PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1852 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1853 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1854 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1855 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1856 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1857 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1858
1eccaa59
PH
1859PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1860 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1861 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1862 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1863 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1864 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1865 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1866 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1867 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1868 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1869
602e59e5
PH
1870PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1871 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1872 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1873 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1874 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1875
411ef850
PH
1876PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1877 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1878 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1879 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1880 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1881 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1882 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1883
7befa435
PH
1884PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1885 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1886 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1887 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1888 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1889 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1890 been verified.
1891
48da4259 1892PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1893 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1894 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1895 and authorization.)
1896
48da4259
PH
1897PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1898 if any retry times were supplied.
1899
d1d5595c
PH
1900PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1901 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1902 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1903
0ef732d9
PH
1904PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1905
328895cc
PH
1906PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1907
fd700877
PH
1908PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1909 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1910 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1911 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1912 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1913 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1914
8dce1a6f
PH
1915PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1916 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1917
17af4a17
PH
1918PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1919 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1920 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1921
1922PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1923 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1924 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1925 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1926 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1927 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1928 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1929 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1930 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1931
1932 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1933 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1934 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1935 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1936 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1937 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1938 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1939 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1940 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1941
1942 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1943 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1944 hammering the server.
1945
c1114884
PH
1946PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1947 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1948
7a0743eb
PH
1949PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1950
0d85fa3f
PH
1951PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1952 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1953 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1954
1bf43b78
PH
1955PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1956 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1957 one case where this was not true.
1958
520de300
PH
1959PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1960 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1961 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1962 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1963 fails.
1964
48c7f9e2
PH
1965PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1966 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1967 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1968 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1969 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1970 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1971 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1972 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1973 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1974 smtp transport.
1975
99ea1c86
PH
1976PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1977 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1978 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1979 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1980
a2042e78
PH
1981PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1982 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1983
4fbcfc2e
PH
1984PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1985 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1986 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1987
aa41d2de
PH
1988PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1989
af561417
PH
1990PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1991
3cc66b45
PH
1992PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1993
194cc0e4
PH
1994PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1995 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1996 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1997 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1998
a401ddaa
PH
1999PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2000 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2001
4e88a19f
PH
2002PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2003 be meaningful with "accept".
2004
d7d7b289
SC
2005SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2006 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2007
2008SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2009 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2010 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2011
2012SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2013 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2014 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2015 there is data to show.
2016 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2017
2018SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2019 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2020 as well as the number of messages.
2021
2022SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2023 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2024 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2025
2026SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2027 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2028 have a flag are now skipped.
2029
2030SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2031 Added the -emptyok flag.
2032
2033SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2034 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2035
0ea2a468
JJ
2036JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2037 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2038 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2039
2040JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2041 match 4.64-PH/13
2042
2043JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2044 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2045
2046JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2047
2048JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2049 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2050
8a10f5a4
PH
2051PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2052
30e18802
PH
2053PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2054 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2055 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2056 contravention of the specifications.
2057
55728a4f
PH
2058PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2059 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2060 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2061
d7837193
PH
2062PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2063 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2064 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2065
87054a31
PH
2066PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2067
ea2c01d2
MH
2068MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2069 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2070 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2071 some point in the past.
2072
e4fa6968
PH
2073PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2074 transport during callout processing was broken.
2075
56f5d9bd
PH
2076PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2077 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2078
922e1c28
PH
2079PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2080 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2081
21eb6e72
PH
2082PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2083 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2084
a0540757
PH
2085PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2086
944e9e9c 2087
478be7b0
SC
2088Exim version 4.63
2089-----------------
2090
2091SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2092 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2093
2094SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2095 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2096 there is data to show.
2097 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2098
2099SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2100 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2101
2b965a65
TF
2102TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2103 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2104
45b91596
PH
2105TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2106 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2107
c59f5781
TF
2108TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2109 submissions from trusted users.
2110
90fc3069
TF
2111TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2112 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2113
6083aca0
TF
2114TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2115 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2116 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2117 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2118 there is now a framework to start from.
2119
765b530f
PH
2120PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2121 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2122 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2123
4e167a8c
PH
2124PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2125
4608d683
PH
2126PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2127
b8dc3e4a
PH
2128PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2129
5418e93b
PH
2130PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2131 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2132 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2133
b4a9bda2
PH
2134PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2135 libradius.
2136
45b91596
PH
2137PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2138 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2139 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2140
5547e2c5
PH
2141PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2142 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2143 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2144 its arguments.
2145
dbcef0ea
PH
2146PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2147 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2148 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2149 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2150 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2151
25257489
PH
2152PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2153 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2154
c816d124
PH
2155PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2156
a9ccd69a
PH
2157PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2158 operations in malware.c.
2159
75fa1910
PH
2160PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2161 signatures.
2162
a7d7aa58
PH
2163PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2164 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2165 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2166 all.
2167
42119b09
PH
2168PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2169 statements to "add_header".
2170
41609df5
PH
2171PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2172 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2173
a5bd321b
PH
2174PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2175 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2176 latter.
2177
e85a7ad5 2178PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2179 so that it is now:
2180
e85a7ad5
PH
2181 ${if or { \
2182 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2183 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2184 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2185 }{no}{yes}}
2186
e85a7ad5
PH
2187 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2188 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2189
d8fe1c03
PH
2190PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2191 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2192
16282d2b
PH
2193PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2194 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2195 any possible encoding problems.
2196
35d40a98
PH
2197PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2198 but not after initializing Perl.
2199
034d99ab
PH
2200PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2201 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2202 apparently, which is not desirable.
2203
6ec97b1b
PH
2204PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2205 queries.
2206
e22ca4ac
JJ
2207JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2208 --not options
2209
2210JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2211
33d73e3b
PH
2212PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2213 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2214 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2215 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2216
9ecb03f3
PH
2217PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2218 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2219 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2220
084efe8d
PH
2221PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2222 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2223 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2224 0.12.
2225
366fc9f0
PH
2226PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2227 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2228 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2229 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2230 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2231
c59f5781 2232
c887c79e
TF
2233Exim version 4.62
2234-----------------
2235
2236TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2237 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2238
1cce3af8
PH
2239PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2240 patch).
2241
afb3eaaf
PH
2242PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2243 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2244 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2245 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2246 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2247 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2248 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2249 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2250 451 error is used.
2251
e173618b
PH
2252PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2253
dd16e114
PH
2254PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2255 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2256 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2257
f7fd3850
PH
2258PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2259 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2260 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2261 odd errors.
2262
d87df92c
PH
2263PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2264 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2265
7e9f683d
PH
2266PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2267 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2268 option (which defaults to 0600).
2269
bfad5236
PH
2270PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2271
01c490df
PH
2272PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2273 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2274 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2275 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2276 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2277 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2278 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2279
d6629cdc
PH
2280PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2281
1cce3af8 2282
214e2000
PH
2283Exim version 4.61
2284-----------------
2285
2286PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2287 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2288 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2289 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2290 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2291 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2292 addresses as local.
2293
f9daeae0
PH
2294PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2295 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2296
7e66e54d
PH
2297PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2298
c8ea1597
PH
2299PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2300 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2301 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2302 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2303 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2304 grumble.
2305
911f6fde
PH
2306PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2307 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2308
47ca6d6c
PH
2309PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2310 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2311 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2312 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2313 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2314
ed0e9820
PH
2315PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2316 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2317 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2318 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2319
eff37e47
PH
2320PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2321 be the same on different OS.
2322
1921d2ea
PH
2323PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2324 testing.
2325
b3f69ca8
JJ
2326JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2327 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2328
2329JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2330 in 4.61-PH/06
2331
424a1c63
PH
2332PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2333 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2334 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2335 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2336 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2337 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2338 bounce message.
2339
7a100415
PH
2340PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2341 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2342 when Exim was called.
2343
19b9dc85
PH
2344PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2345 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2346
309bd837
PH
2347PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2348 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2349 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2350 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2351
59e82a2a
PH
2352PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2353 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2354 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2355 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2356 changes:
2357
2358 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2359 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2360 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2361
2362 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2363 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2364 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2365
9edc04ce
PH
2366PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2367 feature).
2368
1349e1e5
PH
2369PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2370 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2371 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2372 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2373 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2374 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2375 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2376 values from the SRV records were lost.
2377
ea49d0e1
PH
2378PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2379 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2380 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2381
064a94c9
PH
2382PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2383 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2384 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2385
727071f8
PH
2386PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2387 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2388 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2389 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2390 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2391 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2392 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2393 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2394 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2395 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2396
f78eb7c6
PH
2397PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2398 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2399 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2400
21c28500
PH
2401PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2402 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2403
2404PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2405 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2406 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2407 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2408 is given.
2409
1688f43b
PH
2410PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2411 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2412 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2413
2414PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2415 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2416 PH/23 above applies.
2417
9675b384
PH
2418PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2419 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2420 (for which there is an explicit test).
2421
6a3f1455
PH
2422PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2423
dac79d3e
PH
2424PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2425 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2426 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2427 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2428 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2429
5977a0b3
PH
2430PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2431 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2432 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2433 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2434
c91535f3
PH
2435PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2436 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2437 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2438
0d46a8c8
PH
2439PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2440
278c6e6c
PH
2441PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2442
2cbb4081
PH
2443PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2444 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2445 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2446
3eef829e
PH
2447PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2448 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2449 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2450 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2451 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2452
1ab95fa6
PH
2453PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2454 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2455 the message gets confusing).
2456
230205fc
PH
2457PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2458 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2459 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2460 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2461
75e0e026
PH
2462PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2463 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2464 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2465 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2466 same order.
2467
2468PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2469 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2470 the different processes.
2471
145396a6
PH
2472PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2473
3cd34f13
PH
2474PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2475
11121d3d
JJ
2476JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2477 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2478
2479JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2480 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2481
2482JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2483 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2484 messages matching specified criteria.
2485
8def5aaf
PH
2486PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2487
929ba01c
PH
2488PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2489 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2490
2632889e
PH
2491PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2492 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2493 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2494 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2495 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2496 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2497 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2498 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2499 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2500 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2501
944a9c55
PH
2502PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2503 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2504 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2505
4a23603b
PH
2506PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2507
4730f942
PH
2508PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2509 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2510 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2511 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2512 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2513 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2514 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2515 the variable.
2516
30dba1e6
PH
2517PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2518 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2519
382afc6b
PH
2520PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2521
a86229cf
PH
2522PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2523
50c99ba6
PH
2524PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2525
d35e429d
PH
2526PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2527 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2528 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2529 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2530 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2531 size of the count of files.
2532
f90d018c
PH
2533PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2534
75def545
PH
2535PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2536 used in LMTP mode:
2537
2538 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2539 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2540 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2541 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2542
2543 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2544 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2545 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2546
2547PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2548 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2549 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2550 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2551 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2552
c46782ef
PH
2553PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2554 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2555
71fafd95
PH
2556PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2557 will now be deprecated.
2558
2c5db4fd
PH
2559PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2560
9cf6b11a
JJ
2561JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2562 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2563 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2564
2565JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2566 with very large, slow to parse queues
2567
2568JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2569
2570JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2571
898d150f
PH
2572PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2573 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2574 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2575 SMTP output lines.
2576
46218253
PH
2577PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2578 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2579 Sieve code now uses this.
2580
e97957bc
PH
2581PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2582 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2583
81e509d7
PH
2584PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2585 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2586
3d240ff7
PH
2587PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2588
b37c4101
PH
2589PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2590 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2591 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2592 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2593 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2594
79378e0f
PH
2595PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2596 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2597 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2598 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2599
e49c7bb4
PH
2600PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2601
d114ec46
PH
2602PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2603
f3d7df6c
PH
2604PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2605 is preferred over IPv4.
2606
715ab376
PH
2607PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2608 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2609 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2610 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2611 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2612 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2613 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2614
6b31b150
PH
2615PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2616 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2617 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2618
2619PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2620
d515a917
PH
2621PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2622 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2623 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2624 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2625 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2626 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2627 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2628 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2629 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2630 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2631 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2632
9b8fadde
PH
2633PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2634 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2635 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2636
214e2000 2637
5de37277
PH
2638Exim version 4.60
2639-----------------
2640
cc38ddbf
PH
2641PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2642
2643 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2644 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2645
2646 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2647 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2648 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2649
72fdd6ae
PH
2650PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2651
2652 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2653 not a single digit.
2654
2655 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2656 string.
2657
2658 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2659 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2660 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2661 silly things.
2662
2663 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2664 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2665
2666 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2667 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2668
cb741023
PH
2669PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2670 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2671 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2672
f174f16e
PH
2673PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2674 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2675
c25242d7
PH
2676PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2677 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2678
2679 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2680
2681 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2682 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2683 this:
2684
2685 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2686
82c19f95
PH
2687PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2688 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2689 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2690 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2691 identical. For example:
2692
2693 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2694
2695 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2696 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2697 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2698
d7ffbc12
PH
2699PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2700 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2701 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2702 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2703
9f526266
PH
2704PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2705 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2706 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2707 message.
2708
87fcc8b9
PH
2709PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2710
2711 o fixes some comments
2712 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2713 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2714 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2715 and documents the missing references header update
2716
2717 and most important:
2718
2719 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2720 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2721 result)
2722
456682f5
PH
2723PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2724 Electronic Mail") by including:
2725
2726 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2727
2728 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2729 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2730 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2731 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2732 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2733
2734 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2735
2736 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2737
2738 The auto-replied keyword:
2739
2740 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2741 message by an automatic process,
2742
2743 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2744
2745 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2746 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2747
2748 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2749 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2750 other messages.
2751
3e46c1aa
PH
2752PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2753 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2754
49826d12
PH
2755PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2756
eba0c039
PH
2757PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2758 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2759 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2760
a0d6ba8a
PH
2761PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2762 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2763 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2764
f0917727
PH
2765PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2766 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2767 and treats the condition as false.
2768
096fee00
PH
2769PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2770
024bd3c2
PH
2771PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2772 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2773 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2774 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2775 not changing the active code.
2776
2777 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2778 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2779
2780 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2781 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2782
df199fec
PH
2783PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2784 (Bugzilla #53).
2785
d27f1df3
PH
2786PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2787 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2788 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2789 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2790 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2791 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2792 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2793 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2794 the text comparison.
2795
96776534
PH
2796PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2797 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2798 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2799 The same fix has been applied.
2800
5de37277 2801
9a799bc0
PH
2802Exim version 4.54
2803-----------------
2804
2805PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2806 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2807 It now does.
2808
99a4b039
PH
2809PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2810 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2811
2812PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2813
4b233853
PH
2814PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2815 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2816 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2817 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2818 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2819
8857ccfd
PH
2820TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2821 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2822 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2823 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2824 or /domain=).
2825
433a2980
PH
2826PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2827 testing suite.
2828
3e46c1aa 2829
9a799bc0 2830
e3a311ba
TK
2831Exim version 4.53
2832-----------------
2833
2834TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2835 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2836
13b685f9
PH
2837PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2838
395ff96d
PH
2839PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2840
5b68f6e4
PH
2841PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2842 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2843 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2844
1ab52c69
PH
2845PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2846 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2847 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2848
b07e6aa3
PH
2849PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2850 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2851 operating systems.
2852
254e032f
PH
2853PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2854 ${stat: expansion item.
2855
3af76a81
PH
2856PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2857 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2858
2548ba04
PH
2859PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2860 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2861 file for comments.
2862
b6c6011d
PH
2863PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2864
cf39cf57
PH
2865PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2866 setting.
2867
f1513293
PH
2868PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2869 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2870
727549a4
PH
2871TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2872
af46795e
PH
2873PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2874 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2875 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2876 the end of the subprocess.
2877
d7b47fd0
PH
2878PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2879 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2880 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2881 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2882 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2883
ee744174
JJ
2884JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2885
b582ab87
PH
2886TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2887
41a13e0a
PH
2888PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2889 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2890
f625cc5a
PH
2891PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2892
2893PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2894
21f7af35
PH
2895PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2896 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2897 HP-UX compiler.
2898
31480e42
PH
2899PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2900
2d280592
PH
2901PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2902 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2903 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2904
7cd1141b
PH
2905PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2906 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2907
2908PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2909 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2910
750af86e
PH
2911PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2912 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2913
2914 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2915 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2916
2917 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2918 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2919 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2920 contributed by a Radius user.
2921
2922PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2923 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2924
4304270b
TK
2925TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2926 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2927
750af86e
PH
2928PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2929 available.
2930
64ffc24f
PH
2931PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2932 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2933 received.
2934
5dd9625b
PH
2935PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2936 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2937 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2938 header lines when this was not necessary.
2939
5591031b
PH
2940PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2941
ba18e66a
PH
2942PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2943 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2944 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2945 exists".
2946
9cec981f
PH
2947PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2948 -bV or -d is used.
2949
aa2b5c79
PH
2950PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2951 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2952 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2953 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2954
48a53b7f
PH
2955PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2956
1c59d63b
PH
2957PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2958
671012da
TK
2959TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2960
1509d3a8
PH
2961PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2962
2963PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2964 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2965 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2966 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2967 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2968 settings.
2969
2970PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2971
2fe1a124
PH
2972PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2973 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2974 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2975 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2976 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2977 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2978 which is clearly wrong.
2979
8800895a
PH
2980PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2981
ccfdb010
PH
2982PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2983 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2984 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2985 subsequently added.
2986
1130bfb0
PH
2987PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2988 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2989
ebcb507f
PH
2990PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2991
c35e155c
PH
2992PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2993 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2994
95d1f782
PH
2995PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2996 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2997
fd6de02e
PH
2998PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2999 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3000
58de37c5
PH
3001PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3002 recipients, not senders.
3003
261cf466
TF
3004TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3005 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3006
3ee512ff
PH
3007PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3008
e08c430f
PH
3009PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3010
bef5a11f
PH
3011PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3012 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3013 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3014 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3015
7546de58
TF
3016TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3017
e5d5a95f
TF
3018TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3019 clock is set back in time.
3020
2e88a017
TF
3021TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3022 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3023
a5f65aa4
TF
3024TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3025 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3026
e7726cbf
PH
3027PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3028 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3029 (see PH/47 above).
3030
a7fdad5b
TF
3031TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3032 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3033 header rewrites.
3034
6af56900
PH
3035PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3036 type ("H").
3037
0925ede6
PH
3038PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3039
66afa403
TF
3040TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3041 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3042 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3043
0154e85a
TF
3044TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3045 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3046 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3047 helo verification defer as a failure.
3048
16f12c76
PH
3049PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3050 actual error message.
3051
bbe902f0 3052
e5a9dba6
PH
3053Exim version 4.52
3054-----------------
3055
3056TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3057
22c3b60b
PH
3058PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3059 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3060 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3061 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3062
06a9b4b5
PH
3063TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3064
c1ac6996
PH
3065PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3066 can still be requested.
3067
9c7a242c
PH
3068PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3069 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3070 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3071 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3072
87ba3f5f
PH
3073TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3074 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3075 circumstances, but probably never did.
3076
3077PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3078 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3079 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3080 in the header line.
3081
29aba418
TF
3082TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3083
fe0dab11
TF
3084TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3085 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3086
11d337a4
TK
3087TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3088
3089TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3090
415c8f3b
PH
3091PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3092 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3093 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3094 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3095 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3096 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3097
958541e9
PH
3098PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3099 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3100 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3101 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3102 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3103 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3104
c206415f
TK
3105TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3106 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3107
2a4be8f9
PH
3108PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3109 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3110
1cba11c5
SC
3111SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3112 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3113
3114SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3115
3116SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3117
3118SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3119
3120SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3121
3122SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3123
3124SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3125
1005d00e
TK
3126TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3127
3128TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3129 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3130 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3131
3132TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3133 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3134 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3135 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3136
9b4768fa
PH
3137PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3138 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3139 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3140
3141PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3142 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3143 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3144 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3145
0d7eb84a
PH
3146PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3147 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3148 to be made).
3149
3150PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3151 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3152 should work with maildirs and everything.
3153
40727bee
TK
3154TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3155 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3156
554d2369
TF
3157TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3158 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3159
1f922db1
PH
3160PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3161 function for BDB 4.3.
3162
ef213c3b
PH
3163PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3164
8ac170f3
PH
3165PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3166 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3167 involved.
3168
b1c749bb
PH
3169PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3170 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3171 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3172 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3173 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3174 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3175
4aac9b49
PH
3176PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3177 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3178 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3179 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3180 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3181 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3182 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3183 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3184
294520c8
TK
3185TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3186 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3187 details.
3188
5bd022fe
PH
3189PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3190 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3191
90e9ce59
PH
3192PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3193 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3194 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3195 test. It is now used for both.
3196
5ea81592
PH
3197PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3198 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3199 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3200 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3201 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3202 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3203
c6c2dc1d
PH
3204PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3205 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3206 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3207 string_vformat().
3208
fffffe4c
PH
3209PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3210 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3211 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3212
9a26b6b2
PH
3213PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3214 experimental DomainKeys support:
3215
3216 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3217 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3218 the control was given.
3219
3220 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3221
4aee0225
PH
3222PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3223
32d668a5
PH
3224PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3225
8187c3f3
PH
3226PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3227 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3228 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3229 db.h files).
3230
ff790e47 3231PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3232 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3233 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3234 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3235 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3236 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3237 course.
ff790e47 3238
5417f6d1
PH
3239PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3240 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3241 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3242 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3243 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3244 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3245
59cf8544
PH
3246PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3247 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3248 do -d+all out of habit.
3249
e7ad8a65
PH
3250PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3251 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3252 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3253
ade42478
PH
3254PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3255 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3256 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3257 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3258 record types that Exim uses.
3259
182ad5cf
PH
3260PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3261 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3262 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3263 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3264 non-existent file that was broken.
3265
b0d9fc80
TK
3266TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3267 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3268
3269TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3270 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3271 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3272
3273TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3274
47c7a64a
PH
3275PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3276 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3277 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3278 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3279 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3280 same time.
3281
a388bce4
SC
3282SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3283 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3284 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3285 at a slight CPU cost.
3286
3287SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3288 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3289
3290SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3291 by Marc Sherman.
3292
0793e4ed
SC
3293SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3294
c58b88df
PH
3295PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3296 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3297
e7ad8a65 3298
7982096b
PH
3299Exim version 4.51
3300-----------------
3301
1a46a8c5
PH
3302TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3303 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3304
2f079f46 3305TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3306
3307TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3308
3309PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3310 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3311
3312PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3313 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3314 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3315 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3316 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3317 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3318 file.
3319
3320PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3321 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3322 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3323 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3324 these two options.
3325
3326PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3327 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3328 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3329 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3330 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3331 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3332 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3333 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3334
3335PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3336 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3337
3338PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3339 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3340 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3341 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3342 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3343 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3344
3345PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3346 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3347 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3348 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3349
3350PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3351 Finch).
3352
3353PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3354 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3355
49c2d5ea
PH
3356PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3357 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3358 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3359 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3360 message.
49c2d5ea 3361
bf759a8b
PH
3362PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3363
83364d30
PH
3364PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3365 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3366
7999bbd7
PH
3367PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3368 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3369 to what was transported.)
3370
7dbf77c9
PH
3371TF/01 Added $received_time.
3372
74e0617f
PH
3373PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3374 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3375 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3376 spamd_address settings.
3377
2f079f46
PH
3378PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3379 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3380 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3381 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3382 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3383
8c841523
PH
3384PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3385
7766a4f0
PH
3386PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3387 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3388 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3389 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3390 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3391
8b417f2c
PH
3392PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3393 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3394
901f42cb
PH
3395PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3396 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3397 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3398 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3399 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3400 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3401 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3402 for failure.
3403
f9b9210e
PH
3404PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3405 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3406 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3407 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3408 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3409 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3410 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3411 "input=".
3412
54cdb463
PH
3413PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3414
cf00dad6
PH
3415PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3416 driver and ACL definitions.
3417
acb1b346
PH
3418PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3419 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3420
c5ddb310
PH
3421PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3422 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3423 understands it better than I do:
3424
3425 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3426 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3427
3428 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3429 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3430 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3431 => three warnings about OTP not working
3432 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3433
3434 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3435 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3436 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3437 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3438 for each call.)
3439 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3440 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3441
3442 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3443 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3444 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3445
31619da6
PH
3446PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3447 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3448 specified.
3449
bebaf0fc
PH
3450PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3451 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3452 "Linux".
3453
475fe28a
PH
3454PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3455 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3456 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3457
3458 warn !verify = sender
3459 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3460
3461 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3462 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3463
7e8bec7a
PH
3464PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3465
3466 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3467 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3468
3469 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3470 nomenclature these days.)
3471
e4a89c47
PH
3472PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3473 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3474
5ca2a9a1
PH
3475PH/30 In these circumstances:
3476 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3477 . First host does not offer TLS;
3478 . First host accepts first address;
3479 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3480 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3481 . Second host accepts second address.
3482 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3483 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3484 address.
7e8bec7a 3485
c688b954
PH
3486PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3487 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3488 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3489 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3490 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3491
fed77020
PH
3492PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3493 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3494
7fe1560f
PH
3495PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3496 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3497
ebb6e6d5
PH
3498PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3499 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3500 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3501
9c4e8f60
PH
3502PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3503 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3504 overlooked.
3505
3506PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3507
d7174846
PH
3508PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3509 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3510 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3511 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3512 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3513 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3514 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3515
3516 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3517 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3518 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3519 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3520 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3521
3522 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3523 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3524 routed further.
3525
cfe75fc3
PH
3526PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3527 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3528 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3529 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3530 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3531 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3532
be22d70e
PH
3533PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3534
0612b098
PH
3535PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3536 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3537 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3538 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3539 printable escape sequences.
3540
2e0c1448
PH
3541PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3542 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3543 body only.
3544
447d236c
PH
3545PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3546 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3547 are as follows:
3548
3549 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3550 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3551 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3552 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3553 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3554
3555 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3556 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3557 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3558
d20976dc
PH
3559PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3560
f656d135
PH
3561PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3562 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3563 play with."
3564
2e2a30b4
PH
3565PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3566 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3567 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3568 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3569 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3570 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3571 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3572 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3573 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3574 the log output.
3575
9176e9f0
PH
3576PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3577 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3578 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3579 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3580 "make".
3581
7982096b 3582
bbe902f0
PH
3583A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3584----------------------------------------
3585
3586Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3587changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3588needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3589in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3590that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3591release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3592from 4.43.
3593
3594I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
35954.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3596those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3597historical information.
3598
3599
f7b63901 3600Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3601-----------------
3602
5fe762f6
PH
3603 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3604
139059f6 3605 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3606 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3607
7086e875
PH
3608 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3609 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3610 place.
3611
35af9f61
PH
3612 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3613 filter fails to execute.
3614
b668c215
PH
3615 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3616 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3617 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3618 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3619 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3620
a494b1e1
PH
3621 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3622
3623 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3624 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3625 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3626 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3627
c5fcb476
PH
3628 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3629 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3630 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3631 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3632 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3633
69358f02
PH
3634 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3635
5be20824
PH
363610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3637
eb2c0248
PH
363811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3639 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3640 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3641 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3642
2a3eea10
PH
364312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3644 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3645 sender verification.
3646
364713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3648 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3649
23c7ff99
PH
365014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3651
4deaf07d
PH
365215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3653 connection timeout.
3654
926e1192
PH
365516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3656 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3657
650edc6f
PH
365817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3659 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3660
2c7db3f5
PH
366118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3662 information about exactly what failed.
3663
3d235903
PH
366419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3665
7c7ad977
PH
366620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3667 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3668 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3669
981756db
PH
367021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3671 It is now set to "smtps".
3672
d4eb88df
PH
367322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3674 ignore_target_hosts.
3675
367623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3677 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3678 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3679 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3680 "[x.x.x.x]".
3681
7d468ab8
PH
368224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3683 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3684 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3685
368625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3687 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3688 wake it up if nothing else does.
3689
62c0818f
PH
369026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3691 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3692 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3693 end up negative.
3694
26034054
PH
369527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3696 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3697
af66f652
PH
369828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3699
90af77f4
PH
370029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3701 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3702 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3703 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3704 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3705 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3706 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3707 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3708
d8ef3577
PH
370930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3710 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3711 than one IP address.
3712
5cb8cbc6
PH
371331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3714 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3715 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3716 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3717
14702f5b
PH
371832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3719 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3720 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3721 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3722 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3723 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3724
063b1e99
PH
372533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3726 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3727 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3728 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3729
652e1b65
PH
373034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3731 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3732 respected.
3733
6f0c9a4f
PH
373435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3735 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3736 $sender_host_address.
3737
33397d19
PH
373836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3739 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3740 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3741 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3742 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3743 very small.
3744
7bb56e1f
PH
374537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3746
3747 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3748 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3749
ea3bc19b
PH
3750 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3751 just the host names, not the priorities.
3752
3753 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3754 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3755 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3756
ea3bc19b 3757 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3758 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3759
0bcb2a0e
PH
376038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3761 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3762 domain.
3763
2ac0e484
PH
376439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3765
4e1fde53
PH
376640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3767 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3768
de365ded
PH
376941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3770 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3771 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3772
f05da2e8
PH
377342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3774
d6453af2
PH
377543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3776
f7b63901
PH
377744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3778
377945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3780 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3781 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3782 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3783 because the tests only now provoked it.
3784
a444213a
PH
378546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3786 (this can affect the format of dates).
3787
0ec020ea
PH
378847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3789 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3790 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3791 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3792
b1206957
PH
379348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3794
379549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3796 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3797 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3798 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3799
26dd5a95
PH
380050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3801 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3802 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3803
343b2385
PH
380451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3805 autoreply.
3806
1c5466b9
PH
380752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3808 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3809 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3810 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3811 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3812 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3813 is going on).
3814
55ee9ee3
PH
381553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3816 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3817 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3818 the line.
3819
d38f8232
PH
382054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3821 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3822 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3823
3824 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3825 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3826 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3827 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3828 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3829 so I produce this patch..."
3830
3295e65b
PH
3831 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3832 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3833 is not defined.
3834
7102e136
PH
383555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3836 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3837 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3838 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3839 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3840
3ca0ba97
PH
384156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3842
c2bcbe20
PH
384357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3844 long debug lines gets shown.
3845
18ce445d
PH
384658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3847 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3848
1f5b4c3d
PH
384959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3850
3851 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3852 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3853 of $primary_hostname.
3854
b975ba52
PH
385560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3856 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3857 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3858 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3859 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3860 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3861 by change 4.50/55 above.
3862
3863 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3864 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3865 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3866 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3867 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3868 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3869 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3870
387161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3872 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3873 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3874 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3875
17ffcae7
PH
387662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3877 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3878
d95f9fdb
PH
387963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3880 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3881 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3882 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3883 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3884
86b8287f
PH
388564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3886 This has been fixed.
3887
60dc5e56
PH
388865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3889 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3890 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3891 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3892 the caching.)
3893
533244af
PH
389466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3895
a5a28604
PH
389667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3897 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3898 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3899 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3900
7e634d24
PH
390168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3902 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3903
3e11c26b
PH
390469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3905 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3906 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3907
6729cf78
PH
390870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3909 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3910 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3911 message there.
3912
00f00ca5
PH
391371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3914 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3915 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3916
c9bdd01c
PH
391772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3918 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3919 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3920 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3921
d43194df
PH
392273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3923 during host lookups.
3924
fe5b5d0b
PH
392574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3926 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3927
3928 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3929
76a2d7ba
PH
393075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3931 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3932 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3933 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3934 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3935 background.
3936
393776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3938 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3939
04f7d5b9
PH
394077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3941 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3942 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3943
bc60667e
PH
394478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3945
bb6e88ff
PH
394679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3947 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3948 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3949 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3950 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3951 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3952 process earlier.
3953
1e70f85b
PH
395480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3955 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3956 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3957 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3958 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3959
396081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3961 tables).
3962
4e01f9d6
PH
396382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3964
1ee1cef2
PH
396583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3966 "vacation" handling.
3967
6e2b4ccc
PH
396884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3969 OS variants using glibc.
3970
8e669ac1
PH
397185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3972
495ae4b0 3973
bbe902f0
PH
3974----------------------------------------------------
3975See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3976----------------------------------------------------
3977
3978
3979Exim version 4.44
3980-----------------
3981
3982 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3983 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3984 transport
3985
3986 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3987 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3988 place.
3989
3990 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3991 filter fails to execute.
3992
3993 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3994 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3995 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3996 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3997 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3998
3999 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4000 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4001 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4002 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4003
4004 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4005 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4006 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4007 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4008 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4009
4010 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4011
4012 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4013 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4014 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4015 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4016
4017 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4018 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4019 sender verification.
4020
402110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4022 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4023
402411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4025 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4026
402712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4028 ignore_target_hosts.
4029
403013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4031 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4032 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4033 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4034 "[x.x.x.x]".
4035
403614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4037 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4038 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4039
404015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4041 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4042 wake it up if nothing else does.
4043
404416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4045 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4046 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4047 end up negative.
4048
404917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4050 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4051
ea3a6f44 405218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4053
405419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4055 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4056 empty pattern.
4057
405820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4059 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4060 one IP address.
4061
ea3a6f44
NM
406221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4063 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4064 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4065 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4066 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4067 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4068
ea3a6f44
NM
406922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4070 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4071 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4072
407323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4074 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4075 $sender_host_address.
4076
407724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4078
ea3a6f44
NM
407925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4080 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4081 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4082
408326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4084 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4085
ea3a6f44
NM
408627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4087 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4088
ea3a6f44
NM
408928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4090 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4091 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4092 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4093
409429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4095 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4096 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4097
ea3a6f44
NM
409830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4099 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4100 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4101 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4102
ea3a6f44
NM
410331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4104 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4105 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4106
ea3a6f44
NM
410731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4108 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4109
ea3a6f44
NM
411032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4111 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4112 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4113 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4114 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4115 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4116 is going on).
bbe902f0 4117
ea3a6f44
NM
411833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4119 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4120 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4121 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4122 CAN-2005-0021
4123
ea3a6f44
NM
412434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4125 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4126 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4127 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4128 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4129 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4130 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4131
4132 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4133 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4134 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4135 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4136 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4137 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4138 CAN-2005-0021
4139
ea3a6f44
NM
414035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4141 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4142 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4143 CAN-2005-0022
4144
ea3a6f44
NM
414536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4146 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4147 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4148 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4149 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4150
ea3a6f44
NM
415137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4152 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4153 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4154 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4155 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4156
ea3a6f44
NM
415738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4158 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4159 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4160 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4161 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4162
4163
495ae4b0
PH
4164Exim version 4.43
4165-----------------
4166
4167 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4168 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4169 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4170 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4171 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4172 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4173 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4174
4175 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4176 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4177 the delivery.
4178
4179 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4180
4181 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4182
4183 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4184 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4185 to local_scan().
4186
4187 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4188 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4189 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4190 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4191 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4192
4193 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4194 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4195
4196 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4197
4198 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4199
420010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4201 header_sender only.
4202
420311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4204 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4205
420612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4207 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4208 affecting debugging statements).
4209
421013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4211
421214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4213 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4214 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4215 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4216 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4217 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4218 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4219 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4220 after the received time, and all would be well.
4221
422215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4223 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4224 condition in an expansion string.
4225
422616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4227
422817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4229 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4230 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4231 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4232 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4233 job under whatever limits there are.
4234
423518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4236
423719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4238 space).
4239
424020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4241 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4242 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4243 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4244 return path is set.
4245
424621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4247 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4248 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4249 binary data in such strings.
4250
425122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4252
425323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4254 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4255 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4256 failure, which is pointless.
4257
425824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4259
426025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4261
426226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4263 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4264 Sender: header lines.
4265
426627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4267 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4268 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4269
427028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4271 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4272 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4273 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4274 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4275 happens.
4276
427729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4278 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4279 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4280 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4281 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4282
428330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4284 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4285 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4286 1024.
4287
428831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4289 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4290
429132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4292 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4293
429433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4295
429632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4297
429833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4299
430034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4301 syntax error.
4302
430335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4304
430536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4306
430737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4308 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4309 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4310 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4311
431238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4313 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4314
4315
4316Exim version 4.42
4317-----------------
4318
4319 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4320 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4321 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4322 it was not quoted.
4323 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4324 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4325 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4326 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4327 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4328 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4329
4330 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4331 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4332 verification failure".
4333
4334 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4335 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4336 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4337 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4338
4339 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4340 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4341 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4342 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4343 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4344 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4345 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4346 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4347 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4348 treated as a timeout.
4349
4350 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4351 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4352 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4353 not set for Exim filters).
4354
4355 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4356 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4357 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4358
4359 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4360
4361 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4362 try to make them clearer.
4363
4364 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4365 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4366
4367 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4368
4369 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4370
437110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4372 only the Cygwin environment.
4373
437411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4375 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4376 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4377 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4378 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4379
438012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4381 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4382 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4383 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4384 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4385 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4386 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4387
438813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4389 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4390
439114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4392
4393 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4394 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4395 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4396
4397 To: susanne@some.where
4398
4399 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4400 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4401 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4402 of addresses in From: header lines).
4403
4404 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4405 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4406 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4407
4408 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4409 treated as non-personal.
4410
4411 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4412 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4413
441415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4415
441616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4417
441817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4419 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4420 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4421
442218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4423 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4424
442519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4426 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4427 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4428 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4429 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4430 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4431
443220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4433 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4434 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4435 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4436 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4437 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4438 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4439 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4440
4441 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4442
444321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4444 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4445
444622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4447 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4448 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4449
445023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4451 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4452
445324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4454 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4455 rather than long int.
4456
445725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4458
445926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4460
4461
4462Exim version 4.41
4463-----------------
4464
4465 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4466 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4467 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4468 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4469 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4470 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4471
4472
4473Exim version 4.40
4474-----------------
4475
4476 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4477 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4478
4479 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4480 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4481 socklen_t is defined.
4482
4483 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4484 always exist.
4485
4486 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4487 configured.
4488
4489 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4490 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4491 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4492 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4493 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4494
4495 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4496 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4497 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4498 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4499
4500 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4501 of flapping under certain conditions.
4502
4503 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4504 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4505 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4506
4507 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4508
450910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4510
451111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4512 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4513 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4514 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4515
451612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4517 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4518 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4519 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4520 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4521 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4522 preserved with the message after it was received.
4523
452413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4525 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4526 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4527 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4528 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4529 test suite worked just fine.
4530
453114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4532 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4533 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4534
453515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4536 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4537 string.
4538
453916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4540 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4541 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4542 does not fully solve it.
4543
454417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4545 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4546 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4547 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4548 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4549
455018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4551 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4552 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4553
455419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4555 string, for example:
4556
4557 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4558
4559 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4560 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4561 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4562 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4563 the routers could not see them.
4564
456520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4566 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4567
456821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4569 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4570 output).
4571
457222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4573 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4574 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4575 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4576 that needed quoting.
4577
457823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4579 was not being matched caselessly.
4580
458124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4582 backslashes.
4583
458425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4585 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4586 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4587 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4588 when use_sender is false.
4589
459026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4591
459227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4593
459428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4595
459629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4597 the configuration file.
4598
459930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4600 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4601
460231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4603
460432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4605 bytes in the message body.
4606
460733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4608 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4609 delivery.
4610
461134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4612
461335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4614
461536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4616 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4617 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4618 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4619 another IP address.
4620
4621
4622Exim version 4.34
4623-----------------
4624
4625 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4626 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4627
4628 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4629 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4630 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4631 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4632 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4633
4634 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4635 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4636
4637 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4638 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4639 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4640
4641 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4642 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4643 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4644
4645 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4646 for routers.
4647
4648 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4649 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4650 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4651 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4652 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4653 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4654 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4655
4656
4657Exim version 4.33
4658-----------------
4659
4660 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4661 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4662 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4663 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4664 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4665 default (and expected) setting.
4666
4667 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4668 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4669 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4670 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4671
4672 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4673 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4674
4675 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4676 in domain lists.
4677
4678 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4679 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4680 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4681 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4682 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4683 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4684
4685 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4686 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4687 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4688
4689 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4690 part (NOT match_host).
4691
4692 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4693
4694 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4695 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4696 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4697 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4698 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4699 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4700 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4701 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4702 the same named file.
4703
470410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4705 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4706 when Exim is built.
4707
470811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4709 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4710 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4711 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4712 a host name.
4713
471412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4715 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4716 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4717
471813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4719
472014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4721
472215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4723
472416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4725 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4726
472717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4728 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4729 before starting the TLS session.
4730
473118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4732
473319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4734 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4735
473620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4737 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4738 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4739 colon in the middle).
4740
4741
4742Exim version 4.32
4743-----------------
4744
4745 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4746 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4747 multiple configurations are in use.
4748
4749 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4750 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4751 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4752 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4753 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4754 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4755
4756 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4757 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4758
4759 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4760 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4761 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4762
4763 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4764 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4765 occurs.
4766
4767 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4768 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4769
4770 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4771
4772 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4773 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4774
4775 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4776
4777 -prval:sval
4778
4779 is equivalent to
4780
4781 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4782
4783 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4784 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4785 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4786 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4787 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4788
478910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4790 Exim's behaviour:
4791
4792 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4793 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4794 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4795 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4796 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4797 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4798
4799 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4800 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4801 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4802 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4803 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4804 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4805 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4806 string.
4807
4808 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4809 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4810 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4811 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4812 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4813
481411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4815
481612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4817 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4818 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4819
482013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4821
482214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4823 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4824 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4825 information.
4826
482715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4828 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4829
483016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4831 Three changes have been made:
4832
4833 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4834 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4835 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4836 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4837 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4838
4839 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4840 been restored.
4841
4842 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4843 the modified behaviour.
4844
4845
4846Exim version 4.31
4847-----------------
4848
4849 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4850 Larry Rosenman.
4851
4852 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4853 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4854
4855 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4856 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4857 try to track down a specific problem.
4858
4859 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4860 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4861 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4862
4863 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4864 warning.
4865
4866 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4867 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4868 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4869 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4870 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4871 some earlier ones do not.
4872
4873 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4874
4875 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4876 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4877 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4878 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4879 address literals are enabled, of course).
4880
4881 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4882
488310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4884 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4885 by a command such as
4886
4887 exim -f "" ...
4888
4889 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4890
489111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4892
489312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4894 remained set. It is now erased.
4895
489613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4897 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4898
489914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4900 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4901 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4902 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4903 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4904 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4905 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4906 appropriate error code.
4907
490815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4909 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4910 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4911 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4912 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4913 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4914
491516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4916 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4917 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4918
491917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4920 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4921 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4922 terminate the header.
4923
492418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4925 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4926 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4927
492819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4929 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4930 (4.30/29). In particular:
4931
4932 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4933 imposed.
4934
4935 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4936 to write a maildirsize file.
4937
4938 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4939 the transport, the new value overrides.
4940
4941 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4942 count.
4943
494420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4945 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4946 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4947 space or a tab.
4948
494921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4950 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4951 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4952 the fallback hosts.
4953
495422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4955 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4956 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4957
495823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4959 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4960 using a union.
4961
496224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4963 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4964 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4965
496625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4967
496826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4969
497027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4971
497228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4973 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4974 become corrupted.
4975
497629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4977 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4978 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4979 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4980 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4981 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4982 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4983 too great.
4984
498530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4986 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4987 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4988 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4989 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4990 incorrectly.
4991
499231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4993 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4994 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4995 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4996 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4997 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4998 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4999 cached value only when the same options are set.
5000
500132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5002
500333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5004 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5005 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5006 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5007 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5008
500934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5010 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5011 it is clearly obsolete.
5012
501335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5014 transport.
5015
501636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5017 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5018 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5019 times.
5020
502137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5022 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5023 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5024 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5025 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5026
502738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5028 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5029 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5030 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5031
503239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5033
5034 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5035
5036 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5037 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5038 2^31.
5039
504040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5041 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5042 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5043 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5044 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5045 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5046 $localpart_data.
5047
504841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5049 with the -f command-line option.
5050
505142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5052 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5053 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5054 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5055 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5056 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5057
505843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5059 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5060 line.
5061
506244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5063 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5064 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5065 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5066 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5067 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5068 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5069 buffer is too small.
5070
507145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5072 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5073
507446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5075 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5076 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5077 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5078 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5079 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5080 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5081 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5082 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5083
508447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5085 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5086 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5087
508848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5089 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5090 ACL").
5091
509249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5093 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5094 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5095 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5096 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5097
509850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5099 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5100 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5101 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5102 is set.
5103
510451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5105
510652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5107
510853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5109 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5110
511154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5112 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5113 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5114
511555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5116 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5117 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5118 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5119 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5120
512156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5122 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5123 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5124 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5125 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5126 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5127 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5128
512957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5130 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5131 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5132 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5133 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5134 the test of how many are available.
5135
513658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5137 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5138 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5139 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5140 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5141 new message is started.
5142
514359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5144 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5145
514660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5147 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5148
514961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5150 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5151 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5152 is no long logged.
5153
515462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5155 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5156 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5157 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5158 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5159 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5160 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5161
516263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5163 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5164 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5165 interpreted as octal.
5166
516764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5168 setting.
5169
517065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5171 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5172 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5173 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5174 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5175 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5176
517766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5178 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5179 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5180 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5181
5182 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5183 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5184 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5185 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5186
5187 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5188 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5189 is a bug fix.
5190
5191 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5192 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5193
519467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5195
519668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5197 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5198 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5199 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5200
520169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5202 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5203 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5204 supplied", which is not helpful.
5205
520670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5207 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5208 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5209
521071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5211 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5212 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5213 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5214 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5215 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5216 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5217 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5218
521972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5220 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5221 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5222 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5223 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5224
522573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5226 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5227 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5228 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5229 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5230 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5231
523274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5233 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5234 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5235
523675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5237
523876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5239 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5240 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5241 variables.
5242
524377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5244
524578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5246 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5247 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5248 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5249 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5250 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5251 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5252 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5253
525479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5255 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5256 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5257 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5258 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5259
526080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5261 Haardt.
5262
526381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5264 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5265 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5266 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5267 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5268 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5269 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5270 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5271 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5272
5273
5274Exim version 4.30
5275-----------------
5276
5277 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5278 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5279 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5280
5281 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5282 fixed.
5283
5284 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5285 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5286 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5287
5288 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5289 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5290 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5291 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5292 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5293 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5294
5295 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5296 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5297 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5298 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5299 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5300 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5301 the Exim test suite.
5302
5303 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5304 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5305 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5306 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5307
5308 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5309 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5310 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5311 specify it in this variable.
5312
5313 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5314 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5315 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5316 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5317
5318 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5319 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5320 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5321 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5322
5323 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5324 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5325 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5326 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5327 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5328
5329 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5330
533110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5332 they are logged.
5333
533411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5335 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5336 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5337 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5338 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5339
534012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5341 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5342
534313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5344 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5345 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5346 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5347 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5348
534914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5350 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5351
535215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5353 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5354 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5355
535616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5357 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5358
535917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5360 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5361
536218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5363 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5364 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5365
536619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5367 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5368
536920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5370 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5371 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5372 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5373
537421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5375
537622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5377 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5378 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5379 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5380
538123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5382
538324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5384 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5385
538625. Added .include_if_exists.
5387
538826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5389 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5390 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5391 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5392 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5393 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5394
539527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5396
539728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5398 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5399 this.
5400
540129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5402
540330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5404 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5405
5406 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5407 550 Sender verify failed
5408
5409 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5410 the final line of the response.
5411
541231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5413 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5414 all other user lookups.
5415
541632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5417 delivery time.
5418
541933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5420 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5421 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5422 result into an int without checking.
5423
542434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5425 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5426 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5427
542835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5429 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5430 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5431 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5432
543336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5434 correctly.
5435
543637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5437 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5438
543938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5440 to the empty sender.
5441
544239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5443 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5444 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5445 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5446 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5447 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5448 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5449 panic log.
5450
545140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5452 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5453 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5454 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5455 used.
5456
545741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5458 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5459
546042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5461 timestamps.
5462
546343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5464 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5465
546644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5467
546845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5469 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5470 logs.
5471
547246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5473 as soon as it is encountered.
5474
547547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5476
547748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5478 rewritten to "<>".
5479
548049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5481 recognizes a tab character.
5482
548350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5484 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5485 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5486 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5487
548851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5489
549052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5491 crash.
5492
549353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5494
549554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5496
549755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5498 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5499 2822.
5500
550156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5502 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5503 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5504 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5505 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5506
550757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5508 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5509
551058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5511 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5512 list (.included file names were always shown).
5513
551459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5515 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5516 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5517 root at that time.
5518
551960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5520 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5521
552261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5523
552462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5525
552663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5527
552864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5529 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5530 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5531 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5532 failures to open the logs.
5533
553465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5535 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5536 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5537 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5538 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5539 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5540 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5541
5542
5543Exim version 4.24
5544-----------------
5545
5546 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5547 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5548 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5549 change 4.23/1.
5550
5551 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5552 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5553 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5554
5555 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5556 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5557 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5558
5559 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5560 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5561 causing some misleading effects.
5562
5563 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5564 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5565 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5566
5567 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5568 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5569 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5570 queue-runner function directly.
5571
5572
5573Exim version 4.23
5574-----------------
5575
5576 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5577 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5578
5579 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5580 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5581 was always written to the default place.
5582
5583 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5584 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5585 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5586
5587 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5588
5589 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5590
5591 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5592 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5593 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5594
5595 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5596 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5597 must start.
5598
5599 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5600 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5601 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5602
5603 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5604 command line option is disabled.
5605
5606 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5607 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5608
5609 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5610
5611 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5612
5613 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5614 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5615
561610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5617
561811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5619 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5620 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5621 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5622 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5623 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5624
562512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5626 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5627 timeout.
5628
562913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5630 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5631
563214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5633 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5634
563515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5636 received was valid base64.
5637
563816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5639 name of the variable that was being set.
5640
564117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5642
564318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5644 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5645 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5646 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5647 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5648 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5649
565019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5651
565220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5653 nor realm was specified.
5654
565521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5656 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5657 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5658 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5659
566022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5661 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5662 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5663
566423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5665 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5666 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5667
566824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5669 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5670 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5671 some systems use these upper case variants.
5672
567325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5674 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5675 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5676 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5677
567826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5679
568027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5681 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5682
568328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5684 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5685 expansion variable.
5686
568729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5688
568930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5690 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5691 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5692 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5693
569431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5695 using it.
5696
569732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5698 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5699 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5700
570133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5702 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5703
570434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5705 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5706 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5707 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5708
570935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5710 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5711 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5712
571336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5714
571537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5716 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5717 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5718 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5719 aborted.
5720
572138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5722 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5723 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5724
572539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5726
572740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5728 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5729
573041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5731 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5732
573342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5734 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5735 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5736 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5737 when emails are that large.
5738
5739
5740
5741Exim version 4.22
5742-----------------
5743
5744 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5745 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5746
5747 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5748 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5749 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5750
5751 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5752 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5753 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5754
5755 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5756 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5757 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5758 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5759 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5760
5761 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5762 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5763 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5764 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5765 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5766 ever.
5767
5768 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5769 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5770 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5771 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5772 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5773 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5774 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5775 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5776 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5777 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5778 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5779 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5780 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5781 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5782
5783 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5784 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5785 parameterised it.
5786
5787 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5788 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5789 error should be diagnosed.
5790
5791 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5792 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5793 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5794 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5795 appeared instead of "NULL".
5796
579710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5798 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5799 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5800 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5801 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5802 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5803 proceeds).
5804
5805 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5806 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5807 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5808
5809
5810Exim version 4.21
5811-----------------
5812
5813 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5814 or receiver verification errors.
5815
5816 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5817 name.
5818
5819 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5820 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5821 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5822 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5823
5824 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5825 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5826 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5827 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5828 shouldn't happen again.
5829
5830 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5831 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5832 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5833
5834 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5835 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5836
5837 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5838
5839 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5840 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5841
5842 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5843 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5844 RFC.
5845
584610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5847 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5848 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5849
585011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5851 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5852 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5853 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5854
585512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5856 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5857 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5858 to define what should happen).
5859
586013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5861 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5862 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5863
586414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5865
586615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5867
586816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5869 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5870
587117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5872 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5873 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5874 structure in all cases.
5875
5876 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5877 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5878 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5879 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5880
588118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5882 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5883 domain name.
5884
588519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5886 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5887
588820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5889 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5890
589121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5892 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5893 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5894
589522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5896 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5897 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5898
589923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5900 the book and for uniformity.
5901
590224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5903
590425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5905 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5906 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5907 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5908 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5909 non-existent command as the problem.
5910
591126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5912 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5913 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5914
591527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5916
591728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5918 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5919 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5920
592129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5922 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5923 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5924 timestamps using strftime().
5925
592630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5927 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5928
592932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5930 transport-time rewrites.
5931
593233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5933 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5934 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5935 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5936
593734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5938 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5939
594035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5941 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5942 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5943 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5944 comma and a space.
5945
594636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5947 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5948 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5949 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5950 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5951 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5952 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5953
595437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5955 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5956 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5957 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5958 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5959
596038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5961 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5962 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5963 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5964 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5965 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5966 remaining text gets split now.
5967
596839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5969 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5970 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5971 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5972
597340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5974 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5975 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5976 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5977 $return_path.
5978
597941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5980 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5981 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5982 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5983 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5984 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5985 passed through if needed.
5986
598742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5988 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5989 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5990 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5991 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5992 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5993
599443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5995 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5996 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5997 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5998 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5999
600044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6001 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6002 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6003 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6004 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6005
600645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6007 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6008 noticed.
6009
601046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6011 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6012 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6013 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6014 mayhem of various kinds.
6015
601647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6017 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6018 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6019 the right test for positive values.
6020
602148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6022 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6023 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6024 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6025 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6026 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6027 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6028 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6029 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6030 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6031 envelope.
6032
603349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6034 module.
6035
603650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6037 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6038 forbidding it.
6039
604051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6041 the existing equality matching.
6042
604352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6044 dealing with inode numbers.
6045
604653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6047 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6048 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6049
605054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6051 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6052 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6053 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6054 local_scan().
6055
605655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6057 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6058 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6059 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6060 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6061 relay addresses has also been removed.
6062
606356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6064
606557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6066 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6067 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6068
606958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6070 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6071 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6072 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6073 processing applies to CR:
6074
6075 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6076 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6077
6078 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6079 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6080 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6081 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6082
608359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6084 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6085 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6086
608760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6088 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6089 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6090 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6091 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6092 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6093 arisen.
6094
609561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6096 program routers.
6097
609862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6099 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6100 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6101 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6102 adds:
6103
6104 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6105
6106 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6107
6108 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6109
611063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6111 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6112 not considered personal.
6113
611464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6115
611665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6117
611866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6119
612067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6121 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6122 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6123 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6124 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6125 header lines, and spool format errors.
6126
612768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6128 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6129 for more flexibility.
6130
613169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6132 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6133 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6134
613570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6136 Sabourenkov.
6137
613871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6139 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6140 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6141 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6142 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6143 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6144 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6145 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6146 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6147
614872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6149 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6150 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6151 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6152 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6153 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6154 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6155
615673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6157 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6158 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6159
616074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6161 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6162 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6163 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6164 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6165 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6166 instead of killing the process with assert().
6167
616875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6169 than Unicode encoding.
6170
617176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6172 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6173 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6174 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6175
617677. Added process_log_path.
6177
617878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6179 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6180
618179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6182 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6183
618480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6185 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6186 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6187
618881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6189 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6190 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6191 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6192 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6193 were applied:
6194
6195 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6196 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6197 as invalid.
6198
619982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6200 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6201 they will be used during message reception.
6202
6203
6204Exim version 4.20
6205-----------------
6206
6207The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6208
6209****