Testsuite: handle change in GnuTLS cert preference
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
5054c4fd 76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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80JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
83
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84JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
85 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
86 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
87
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88PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
89
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90JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
91 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
92 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
93 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
94
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95PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
96 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
97 promised '?' replacement.
98
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99PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
100
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101JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
102 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
103 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
104 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
105 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
106
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107JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
108 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
109 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
110
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111JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
112 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
113 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
114
7ea1237c 115JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 116 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
118
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119JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
120 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
121 hope that is portable enough.
122
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123JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
127
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128JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
129 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
130 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
131
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132JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
133 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
134 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
135 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
136
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137JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
138 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
139
75c121f0 140JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 141 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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142 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
143 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
144
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145JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
146 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
147 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
148
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149JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
150 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
151 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
152 the previous G, M, k.
153
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154JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
155 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
156 it was unset.
157
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158JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
159 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
160 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
161 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
162
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163JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
164 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
165
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c39c8870 170GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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171 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
172 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
173 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
174 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
175 be defined in redis_servers.
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177GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
178 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
179
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180JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
181 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
182 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
183 extant use locations.
184
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185JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
186 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
187
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188JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
189 Previously only the last row was returned.
190
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191JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
192 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
193 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
194 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
195 input.
196
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197JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
198 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
199 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
200 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
201 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
202 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
203 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
204 Main pool for expansions.
205 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
206 active in the testsuite.
207 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
208
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209JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
210 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
211 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
212 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
213 round-robin DNS.
214
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215JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
216 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
217 failure response.
218
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219JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
220 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
221 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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223JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
224 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
225 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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227JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
228 rows affected is given instead).
229
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230JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
231 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
232
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233JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
234 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
235 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
236 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
237 for all multi-message initiating connections.
238
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239JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
240 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
241 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
242
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243JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
244 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
245 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
246 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
247 separate.
248
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249JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
250 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
251 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
252 fake-reject.
253
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254HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
255
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256JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
257 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
258
aab9a843 259PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 260 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 261 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 262
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263JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
264 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
265 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
266 and send a quit.
267
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268JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
269 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
270
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271JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
272 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
273 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
274
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275JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
276 for the build is renamed.
277
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278JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
279 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
280 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
281
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282JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
283 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
284 result replacing the original.
285
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286JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
287 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
288 and the resources needed to be freed.
289
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290JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
291
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292JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
293 was not propagated.
294
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295JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
296 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
297 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
298 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
299
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300JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
301 length value. Previously this would segfault.
302
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303HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
304 newer versions of the scanner.
305
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306JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
307 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
308 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
309 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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310 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
311 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
312 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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314JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
315 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
316 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
317 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
318 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
319 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
320 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
321 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
322 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
323 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
324
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325JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
326 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
327
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328JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
329
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330HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
331 allows proper process termination in container environments.
332
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333JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
334 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
335
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336JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
337 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
338 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
339
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340JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
341 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
342 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 343 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 344
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345JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
346 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
347 would be spooled.
348
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349PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
350 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
351
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352HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
353 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
354 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
355 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
356 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 357
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358JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
359 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
360 lines.
361
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362JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
363 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
364
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365PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
366 suffix list.
367
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368JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
369 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
370 "bare" representation.
371
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372JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
373 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
374 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
375 corrupted the output.
376
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381JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
382 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
383 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
384 pairs of long lines into single ones.
385
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386PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
387 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
388
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389JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
390 This permits better logging.
391
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392JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
393 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
394 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
395 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
396 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 397 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 398
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399JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
400 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
401 "exiwhat" output.
402
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403PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
404 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
405 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
406
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407JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
408 than 255 are no longer allowed.
409
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410JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
411 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
412 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
413 client, there is no benefit for these.
414 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
415 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
416 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
417 is used (3.2.4 +).
418
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419PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
420 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
421
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422JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
423 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
424 erroneously found still-pending ones.
425
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426JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
427 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
428
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429JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
430 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
431 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
432 signature and again for transmission.
433
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434JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
435 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 436 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 437
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438JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
439 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
440 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
441 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
442 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
443 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
444 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
445
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446JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
447 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
448 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 449 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 450
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451PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
452 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
453 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
454 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
455 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
456 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
457 processing options.
458
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459JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
460 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
461 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
462 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
463 connections.
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465PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
466 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
467 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
468 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
469 versions.
470
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471JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
472 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
473 inaccessible.
474
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475JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
476 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
477 banner-time rejection.
478
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479JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
480 callout/hold.
481
8e041ae0
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482PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
483 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
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484 Fixes bug 2140.
485
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486HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
487
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488JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
489 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
490
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491JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
492 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
493 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
494 during compilation.
495
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496JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
497 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
498 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 499 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 500
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501JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
502 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
503 initial verify call returned a defer.
504
ad1a76fe 505JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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506 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
507
ad1a76fe
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508JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
509 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
510
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511JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
512 if present. Previously it was ignored.
513
f2ed27cf
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514JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
515 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
516
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517JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
518 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
519 extensible.
520
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521PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
522 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
523
dc4de9cc
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524PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
525 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
526 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
527
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528JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
529 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
530 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
531 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
532
0768462d 533HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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534 and confused the parent.
535
848214f7
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536JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
537 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
538
9e0ed81f
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539JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
540 for log purposes.
541
2540f2f8
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542JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
543 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
544 out-of-order delivery.
545
e5ab0ba9
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546JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
547 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
548 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
549 error for the HELO.
550
e99a3a6c
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551JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
552 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
553 desynchronisation.
554
18067c75
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555JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
556 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
557 one run was done. Bug 2189.
558
72934ba7
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559JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
560 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
561 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
562 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
563 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
564 message is still "Temporary local problem".
565
625667b6
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566JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
567 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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568 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
569
570HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
571 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
572 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 573
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574JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
575 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
576 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
577 though a different problem.
578
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9427e879 583JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 584 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 585
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586JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
587
4c57a40e
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588PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
589 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
590
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591JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
592 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
593
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594JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
595 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
596 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
597 before acknowledging the chunk.
598
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599PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
600 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
601 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
602
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603JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
604 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
605 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
606 should.
607
608JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
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609 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
610 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 611
bd8fbe36 612JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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613 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
614
bd8fbe36
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615JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
616 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
617 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
618 body hash calculated value.
619
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620JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
621 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
622 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
623
44e6651b
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624JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
625
626JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
627 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
628
629JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
630 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
631 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
632
633JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
634 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
635 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
636 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
637 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
638 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
639
640JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
641 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
642 past that check, despite the cost.
643
b6040544
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644JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
645 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
646 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
647
f700ea4d
PP
648PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
649 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
650 TLS library to consume.
651
da88acae
PP
652PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
653
f6ef9370
PP
654PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
655
90341c71
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656JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
657 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
658 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
659 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
660 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
661 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
662 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
663
1ec2ab36
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664PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
665
666PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
667
668PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
669 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
670 should be warning-free.
671
8b2b9480
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672JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
673
674HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
675 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
676
d953610f
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677HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
678 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
679 general solution here.
680
7dc5f827
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681PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
682 already-broken messages in the queue.
683
4bb432cb
PP
684JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
685
3b1a84c8
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686JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
687
902fbd69 688
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692JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
693 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 694
03d5892b
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695JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
696 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
697 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
698
4b0fe319
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699JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
700 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
701 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
702 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
703 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
704 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
705 if one fails this test.
706 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
707 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
708
789f8a4f
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709JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
710 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
711
23bb6982 712JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 713 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 714
0bd1b1ed 715JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 716 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 717
20b9a2dc
JH
718JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
719 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
720
05392bbc
JH
721JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
722 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
723
1a6230a3
JH
724JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
725
cfab9d68
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726JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
727 certificate).
728
98c82a3d
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729JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
730 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
731 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
732 connection after a verify cache hit.
733 Do not update it with the verify result either.
734
735JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
736 when routing results in more than one destination address.
737
ae8386f0
JH
738JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
739 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
740 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
741 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
742 when the cutthrough connection is made).
743
0d9fa8c0
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744JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
745 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
746
3581f321
JH
747JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
748 Previously they were not counted.
749
ef3a1a30
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750JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
751 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
752 that needed the lookup.
753
4c04137d 754JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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755 distinguished as "(=".
756
1435d4b2
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757JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
758 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
759
eea0defe
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760JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
761
762JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
763 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 764
4c04137d 765JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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766 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
767
1c788856
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768JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
769 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
770 compatible.
771
e3b1f624
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772JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
773 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
774 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
775 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
776
a57ce043
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777JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
778
f59aaaaa 779JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
780 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
781 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 782
d1f9fb42
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783JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
784 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
785 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
786 be lost.
787
92b0827a
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788JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
789 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
790 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
791 itself :(
792
ddf1b11a
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793JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
794 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
795 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
796
3cc3f762
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797JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
798 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
799 options.
800
ae5afa61
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801JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
802
317e40ac
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803PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
804 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
805
8b0fb68e
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806PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
807 are not in the system include path.
808
ad7fc6eb 809JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 810 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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811 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
812 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 813
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814JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
815 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
816 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
817
5ddc9771
JH
818JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
819
8d73599f
JH
820HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
821 an incoming connection.
822
446415f5
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823HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
824 to rspamd.
825
8e53a4fc
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826HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
827 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 828
87cb4a16 829JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 830 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
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831
832
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836JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
837 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
838 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
839 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 840
6c6d6e48
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841TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
842 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
843
ac881e27
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844TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
845 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
846 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
847 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
848 outgoing I= field.
849
c8899c20
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850JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
851 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
852 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
853 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
854 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
855 check on the next write.
856
f1b81d81
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857HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
858 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
859 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
860 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
861 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
862
f38917cc
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863JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
864 mime_regex ACL conditions.
865
895fbaf2
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866JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
867 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
868 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
869
805bb5c3
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870JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
871 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
872 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
873 an authenticate fail is not an error.
874
56c2a7be
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875HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
876 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
877
4c04137d 878JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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879 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
880
6f6dedcc
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881JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
882 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
883 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
884 distinct.
885
0f557e90
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886JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
887
888JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
889
ec0eb1a3
JH
890JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
891
41e93589
JH
892JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
893 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
894
98b98887 895JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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896 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
897
98b98887
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898JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
899
858e91c2
JH
900JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
901 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
902
903JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
904
6ff55e50
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905JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
906 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
907
3b957582
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908JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
909
23f3dc67
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910JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
911 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 912 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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913 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
914 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
915 they will retry in-clear.
916 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
917 at installation time.
918
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919HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
920 with the $config_file variable.
921
5ef5dd52
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922JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
923 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
924 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
925 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 926 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 927
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928GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
929 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
930 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
931 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
932 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
933
a159f203
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934JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
935
7f06582c
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936JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
937 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
938 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
939 list order is no longer honoured.
940
4c04137d 941JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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942 for DKIM processing.
943
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944JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
945 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 946
cee5f132
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947JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
948 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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949 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
950 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 951
8c5d388a
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952JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
953 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
954
2d8d625b
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955JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
956 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
957
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958JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
959 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
960
f2f2c91b
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961JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
962
ce325893
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963JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
964 cached by the daemon.
965
de78e2d5
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966JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
967 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
968
379ba7d0
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969JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
970 keys are given for lookup.
971
f444c2c7
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972JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
973 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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974 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
975 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 976
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977JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
978 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
979 server-side so match that on older versions.
980
07c73177 981JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 982 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 983 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 984
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985JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
986 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
987
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988JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
989 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
990 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 991 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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992 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
993 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
994 initial truncated version.
995
ab9152ff 996JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 997
67e87fcf
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998JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
999
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1000JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1001 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1002
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1003JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1004
bc3c7bb7 1005HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1006
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1007JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1008 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1009 induced overflows.
1010
59eaad2b
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1011JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1012 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1013 stage.
1014
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1015JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1016 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1017
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1018JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1019 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1020 former class.
1021
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1022JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1023 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1024 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1025
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1026JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1027 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1028 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1029 extraction. Accept either.
1030
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1035JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1036 expanded.
1037
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1038JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1039
ad07e9ad
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1040JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1041 it.
1042
01a4a5c5 1043JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1044 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1045 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1046 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1047
cb1d7830 1048JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1049 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1050 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1051
610ff438 1052JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1053 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1054 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1055 TLS connections
610ff438 1056
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1057JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1058 sites use this now.
1059
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1060JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1061 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1062 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1063 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1064 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1065
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1066JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1067 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1068 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1069
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1070JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1071
aeaf5db3
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1072JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1073 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1074
5032d1cf
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1075JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1076 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1077
7e8360e6
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1078JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1079 /defer_ok option.
1080
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1081JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1082 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1083
fd4d8871 1084JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1085 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1086 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1087
1088JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1089 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1090 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1091
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1092JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1093 timeout value per server.
1094
2ad78978
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1095JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1096 now have the list separator specified.
1097
8a512ed5 1098JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1099 option values.
8a512ed5 1100
82c0c8ea 1101JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1102 under OpenSSL.
1103
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1104JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1105
82c0c8ea
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1106JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1107 rather than the verbs used.
1108
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1109JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1110 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1111
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1112JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1113
cfab9d68 1114HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1115 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1116
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1117JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1118 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1119
fd4c285c
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1120HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1121 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1122
4c04137d 1123JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1124
d2a2c69b
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1125JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1126
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1127JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1128 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1129 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1130 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1131
1f12df4d
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1132JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1133
1f155f8e
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1134JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1135 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1136
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1137JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1138 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1139
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1140JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1141
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1142JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1143
7137ca4b
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1144JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1145
dcb1095c
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1146JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1147 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1148
2f460950
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1149JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1150 added for tls authenticator.
1151
2f680c0c
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1152HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1153
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1158TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1159 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1160 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1161 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1162 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1163 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1164 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1165
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1166TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1167 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1168 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1169 function when detected.
1170
a9b8ec8b
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1171JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1172 cause callback expansion.
1173
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1174TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1175 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1176 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1177 instead of bool when processing it.
1178
0f06b4f2 1179JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1180 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1181
be36e572
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1182JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1183
ac4ef9bd
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1184JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1185
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1186TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1187
c713ca4b
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1188TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1189 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1191JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1192 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1193 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1194 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1195 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1196 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1197
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1198JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1199 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1200 exceeded it.
1201
a7fec7a7
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1202JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1203 version 3.3.6 or later.
1204
4c04137d 1205JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1206 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1207 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1208 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1209 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1210 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1211 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1212
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1213TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1214 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1215
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1216JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1217 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1218 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1219 matches.
1220
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1221JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1222 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1223 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1224
ad4c5ff9
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1225JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1226 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1227
1228JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1229 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1230 syntax errors.
1231
3394b36a 1232JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1233
1234JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1235 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1236
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1237TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1238 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1239 tarball.
1240
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1241JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1242
4c04137d 1243JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1244 Bug 1561.
1245
1246JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1247 output list separator was used.
1248
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1252TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1253 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1254 return.
1f0ebb98 1255
a612424f 1256JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1257 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1258
1259JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1260
1261TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1262 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1267
1268TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1269
1270 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1271 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1272 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1273 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1274 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1275 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1276
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1277TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1278 utilities have not been installed.
1279
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1280JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1281 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1282
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1283TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1284 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1285
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1286TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1287 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1288 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1289 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1290
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1291JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1292
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1293TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1294 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1295
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1296PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1297 not dns_use_dnssec.
1298
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1299JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1300
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1301TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1302 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1303 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1304
8ddef691 1305TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1306 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1307 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1308 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1309 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1310 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1311
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1312JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1313
e45a1c37
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1314JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1315 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1316
67d81c10
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1317JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1318 failed delivery.
1319
b1f8e4f8
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1320JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1321
511a6c14 1322JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1323
1324JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1325 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1326
51c7471d
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1327JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1328 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1329
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1330TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1331
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1332JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1333
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1334JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1335 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1336
1337 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1338 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1339 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1340
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1341TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1342 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1343 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1344 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1345
35aba663
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1346JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1347
8c51eead 1348JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1349 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1350 lookup).
8c51eead 1351
deae092e
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1352TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1353 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1354 Schlichting.
35aba663 1355
fd3b6a4a 1356JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1357 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1358
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1359TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1360 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1361
2b4a568d
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1362JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1363
d2af03f4
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1364TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1365 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1366 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1367
9d1c15ef
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1368JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1369 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1370
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1371JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1372 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1373 hosts_request_ocsp.
1374
ed3bba5f 1375JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1376 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1377 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1378
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1379JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1380
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1381TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1382 Christian Aistleitner.
1383
f2de3a33
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1384JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1385
6eb02f88
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1386TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1387 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1388
00bff6f6
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1389JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1390 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1391
071c51f7
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1392JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1393 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1394
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1395TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1396 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1397
3ae173e7
ACK
1398TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1399 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1400
c13d09b8
TL
1401TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1402 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1403 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1404
0df4ab80
JH
1405JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1406
66be95e0
PP
1407PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1408 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1409 Jasper Wallace.
1410
1bd0d12b
JH
1411JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1412
0de7239e
TL
1413TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1414 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1415 CVE-2014-2972
1416
fd3b6a4a 1417
2c422e6f 1418Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1419-----------------
1420
1421PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1422
12f69989
PP
1423PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1424 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1425
54c90be1
PP
1426PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1427 by GnuTLS.
1428
1f4a55da
PP
1429PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1430 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1431 routines.
1432
13363eba 1433PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1434
66645890 1435PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1436 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1437 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1438 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1439 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1440
a3fb9793 1441PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1442 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1443 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1444 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1445 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1446 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1447
d27f98fe 1448TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1449
6822b909
TL
1450TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1451
e7568d51
TL
1452TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1453 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1454
ae0e32ee 1455TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1456 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1457 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1458
1459TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1460
e2658fff
TL
1461TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1462
83712b39
TL
1463TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1464 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1465
976b7e9f
JH
1466JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1467
be4a1376
JH
1468JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1469
ec4b68e5
PP
1470PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1471
d7148a07
NM
1472NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1473 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1474
585121e2 1475JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1476
2519e60d
TL
1477PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1478 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1479 function.
a5f239e4 1480
13d08c90
PP
1481PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1482 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1483
bef3ea7f
JH
1484JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1485 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1486 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1487
846726c5
JH
1488JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1489
3a796370
JH
1490JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1491
ea722490 1492JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1493 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1494
b1b05573
JH
1495JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1496 Bugzilla 884.
1497
362145b5
JH
1498JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1499 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1500
3c0a92dc
JH
1501JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1502 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1503
6d7c6175
PP
1504PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1505 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1506 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1507
6f123593
JH
1508JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1509 authenticators.
1510
c8e2fc1e
JH
1511JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1512 for control.
1513
005ac57f
PP
1514PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1515
3f1df0e3
PP
1516PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1517 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1518 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1519 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1520
67bd1ab3
TF
1521TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1522
1523 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1524 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1525 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1526 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1527 the retry rules.
1528
1529 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1530 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1531 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1532
1533 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1534 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1535 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1536 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1537
1ddeb334
TF
1538 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1539 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1540 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1541 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1542 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1543 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1544 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1545
1546 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1547 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1548
326cdc37
TF
1549TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1550
1551 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1552
1553 Resent-From: f
1554
1555 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1556 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1557 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1558 username as equal to the username.
1559
1560 This change corrects that bug.
1561
f62514b3
GF
1562GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1563 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1564 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1565
eb505532
TF
1566TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1567
14c7b357
PP
1568PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1569 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1570 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1571 NULL dereference and crash.
1572
94eaf700
PP
1573JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1574
6f5a440a
PP
1575PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1576 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1577 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1578
514ee161
SC
1579SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1580
fd98a5c6
JH
1581JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1582 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1583 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1584 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1585 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1586 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1587 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1588 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1589 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1590 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1591 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1592
035c7f1e
PP
1593PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1594 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1595
ff284120
PP
1596PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1597 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1598 Bugzilla 880.
1599
26e72755
PP
1600PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1601 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1602 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1603 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1604 an empty string is now equivalent.
1605
0fbd9bff
PP
1606PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1607 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1608 not performing validation itself.
1609
700d22f3
PP
1610PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1611 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1612
fcc8e047
JH
1613JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1614 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1615
4c04137d 1616TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1617
8c020188
PP
1618PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1619 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1620 other false fix of the same issue.
1621 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1622 Bugzilla 1363.
1623
d13cdd30
PP
1624PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1625 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1626
e2fbf4a2
PP
1627PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1628 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1629 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1630
f4c1088b
PP
1631PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1632 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1633 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1634
c5c2182f
PP
1635TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1636
73431ca9
JH
1637JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1638
2d07a215
TL
1639TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1640 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1641
a30a8861
TL
1642TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1643 Alexander Miroch.
1644
33382dd9
TL
1645TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1646 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1647 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1648 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1649 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1650
046172e6
TL
1651TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1652 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1653
581d7bee 1654TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1655 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1656 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1657
1658TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1659 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1660 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1661 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1662
237b2cf2
TL
1663TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1664
9fc5a352
TL
1665TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1666 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1667 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1668
b10e4ec2
TL
1669TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1670
e2cebd74
TL
1671TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1672 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1673 interaction.
1674
1675TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1676 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1677
2519e60d
TL
1678TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1679 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1680
e78e6ecf 1681
4263f395
PP
1682Exim version 4.80.1
1683-------------------
1684
1685PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1686 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1687 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1688
ea722490 1689
b1770b6e 1690Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1691-----------------
1692
1693PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1694 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1695 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1696
23c7e742
NM
1697NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1698
b322aac8
NM
1699NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1700 improved.
1701
4a891427
NM
1702NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1703
c1e794ba 1704PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1705
97753960
PP
1706PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1707
1708PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1709 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1710
df6303fa
PP
1711PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1712 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1713
7e6a8985
PP
1714PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1715 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1716
f1e05cc7 1717PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1718 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1719 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1720
4c287009
PP
1721PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1722
b98bb9ac
PP
1723PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1724 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1725
4a6a987a
PP
1726PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1727
c45dd180 1728PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1729
7db8d074
PP
1730PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1731 non-compliant senders.
1732 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1733
eae0036b 1734NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1735 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1736 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1737
dec5017e
PP
1738PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1739 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1740 in spool file corruption.
1741
c80c5570
PP
1742PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1743 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1744 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1745 "Got SSL error 2".
1746
076b11e2
PP
1747TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1748 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1749 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1750
5407bfff
JH
1751JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1752 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1753
9e45c72b
PP
1754JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1755
e74376d8
PP
1756PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1757 diagnostics.
1758 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1759
4c04137d 1760PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1761 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1762 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1763
7be682ca
PP
1764PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1765 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1766 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1767 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1768
ef840681
PP
1769PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1770 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1771
5bfb4cdf
PP
1772PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1773 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1774 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1775 resolver implementation change.
1776
c6e95d22
PP
1777PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1778 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1779
9cbad13b
PP
1780PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1781
9ee44efb
PP
1782PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1783
6a6084f8
PP
1784PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1785 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1786
12dd53c7
PP
1787PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1788 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1789
9e45c72b 1790JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1791 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1792
17c76198
PP
1793PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1794 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1795 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1796 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1797 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1798
53947857 1799PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1800
eae0036b 1801PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1802 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1803 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1804
9e45c72b 1805JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1806
7390e768
PP
1807PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1808 read-only, out of scope).
1809 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1810
08488c86
PP
1811PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1812 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1813 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1814 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1815
6475bd82
PP
1816PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1817
81f91683
PP
1818PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1819 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1820 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1821 real issues in debug logging.
1822
5779e6aa
PP
1823PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1824 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1825
3375e053
PP
1826PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1827 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1828 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1829
1830PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1831 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1832 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1833 problems.
3375e053 1834
9d26b8c0
PP
1835PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1836 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1837
57eb9e91 1838PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1839 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1840 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1841 needs to override this, it can.
1842
16880d1a
PP
1843PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1844 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1845 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1846
a799883d
PP
1847PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1848 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1849 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1850 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1851
3ecab157 1852PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1853
0599f9cf 1854
867fcbf5
PP
1855Exim version 4.77
1856-----------------
1857
1858PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1859 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1860
f1a29782
TF
1861TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1862
ab42bd23
TK
1863TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1864 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1865
0ca0cf52
TF
1866TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1867 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1868
921b12ca
TF
1869TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1870 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1871 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1872
1873 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1874 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1875 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1876 not safe for signals.
1877
1878 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1879 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1880 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1881 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1882 exiwhat.
1883
c99ce5c9
TF
1884TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1885
1886 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1887 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1888 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1889 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1890 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1891
1892 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1893 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1894 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1895 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1896 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1897 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1898
1899 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1900 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1901 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1902 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1903
1904 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1905 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1906 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1907 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1908
1909 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1910 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1911 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1912 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1913 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1914 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1915 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1916 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1917 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1918
1919 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1920 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1921 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1922 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1923
1924 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1925 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1926 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1927 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1928 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1929 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1930 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1931 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1932 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1933 details in the main documentation.
1934
3634fc25
TF
1935TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1936
792e8a19
TF
1937TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1938
5901f0ab
TF
1939TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1940 repository when doing development or release builds.
1941
7f2a2a43
PP
1942PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1943 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1944
061b7ebd
PP
1945PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1946 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1947 Bugzilla 97.
1948
e12f8c32
PP
1949PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1950
9e949f00 1951PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1952 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1953
1954PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1955 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1956
555ae6af 1957PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1958 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1959
1960PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1961 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1962
6f7fe114
PP
1963PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1964 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1965
c566dd90
PP
1966PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1967 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1968 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1969 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1970
d6cc7c78 1971PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1972 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1973 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1974
0d0e4455
PP
1975PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1976
3399bb60 1977PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1978
1979PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1980 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1981
0ca0cf52 1982
10906672
PP
1983Exim version 4.76
1984-----------------
1985
1986PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1987
754a0503
PP
1988PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1989 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1990
c0c7b2da
PP
1991PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1992
e97d1f08
PP
1993PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1994
084c1d8c
PP
1995PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1996 Bugzilla 1098.
1997
4e7ee012
PP
1998PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1999 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2000
c8d52a00
PP
2001TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2002 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2003
54e7ce4a
PP
2004PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2005 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2006
5ee6f336
PP
2007PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2008 Bugzilla 1104.
2009
c8d52a00 2010TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2011 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2012
2013TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2014 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2015 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2016 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2017
2018PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2019 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2020
10906672 2021
aa097c4c
NM
2022Exim version 4.75
2023-----------------
2024
4c04137d 2025NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2026 Bugzilla 1073
2027
7f3d9eff
TF
2028TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2029 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2030 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2031
159f52d2
TF
2032TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2033 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2034
0cc9542a
PP
2035PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2036 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2037 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2038
f7274286
PP
2039PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2040 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2041
7b797365
PP
2042PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2043 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2044
caacae52
NM
2045NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2046 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2047
09dcaba9
NM
2048NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2049 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2050
bc19a55b
PP
2051PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2052 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2053
bd4c9759
NM
2054NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2055 Fixes bug 943.
2056
b72aab72
PP
2057PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2058 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2059
2fe76745
PP
2060PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2061 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2062
76aa570c
PP
2063PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2064 SQL string expansion failure details.
2065 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2066
f1e5fef5
PP
2067PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2068 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2069
4d805ee9
PP
2070PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2071 extern declarations in function scope.
2072 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2073
cd59ab18
PP
2074PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2075 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2076 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2077 a kernel bug).
2078
332f5cf3
PP
2079PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2080 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2081
29cfeb94
PP
2082PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2083 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2084
660242ad
PP
2085PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2086 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2087
bc4bc4c5
PP
2088PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2089 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2090
2e64baa9
NM
2091NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2092 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2093 Dennis Davis.
2094
4c04137d 2095PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2096
6bac1a9a
PP
2097PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2098
552193f0
NM
2099NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2100 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2101
1b587e48
TF
2102TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2103 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2104
aa097c4c 2105
8c07b69f
TF
2106Exim version 4.74
2107-----------------
2108
2109TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2110 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2111
c0ea85ab
TF
2112TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2113 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2114
0761d44e
TF
2115TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2116
0a349494
PP
2117DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2118 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2119 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2120
2121PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2122 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2123 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2124
fea24b2e
PP
2125PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2126 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2127 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2128 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2129
6545de78
PP
2130PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2131 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2132 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2133 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2134
1670ef10
PP
2135PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2136 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2137 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2138 arbitrary files.
2139
c0886197
PP
2140PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2141 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2142
b7487bce
PP
2143PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2144 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2145 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2146 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2147 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2148
8c07b69f 2149
97fd1e48 2150Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2151-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2152
2153PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2154 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2155 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2156
6901c596
PP
2157PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2158 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2159
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2160JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2161
77bb000f
PP
2162PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2163
a29e5231
PP
2164PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2165
ec5a0394 2166PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2167
55c75993
PP
2168PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2169
453a6645 2170PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2171 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2172 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2173 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2174
8544e77a
PP
2175PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2176 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2177 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2178 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2179 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2180
83e029d5
PP
2181PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2182
ed7f7860
PP
2183PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2184
7d9f747b
PP
2185PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2186
4b2241d2
PP
2187PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2188
10385c15
PP
2189PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2190
dbc4b90d
PP
2191PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2192
532be449
PP
2193PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2194
6a8de854 2195PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2196 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2197 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2198
5dc43717
JJ
2199JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2200
2201JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2202 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2203
3346ab01
PP
2204PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2205 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2206
491fab4c
PP
2207PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2208 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2209 Notification from John Horne.
2210
13eb9497
PP
2211PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2212 compatible.
2213
2214PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2215 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2216 it normally works.
2217
7f36d675
DW
2218DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2219 access.
2220
c1d94452
DW
2221DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2222 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2223 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2224
e2f5dc15
DW
2225DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2226 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2227 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2228 configuration file.
2229
cd25e41d
DW
2230DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2231 option (effectively making it always true).
2232
261dc43e
DW
2233DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2234 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2235
fa32850b
DW
2236DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2237 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2238
79d4bc3d
PP
2239PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2240 run-time user, instead of root.
2241
43236f35 2242PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2243 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2244
fb08281f
DW
2245DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2246 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2247 arguments.
3346ab01 2248
74935b98
DW
2249DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2250 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2251 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2252
90b6341f
DW
2253DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2254
57730b52
ML
2255NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2256
66581d1e 2257
465e92cf
JJ
2258Exim version 4.72
2259-----------------
2260
453a6645
PP
2261JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2262 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2263 typos
465e92cf 2264
453a6645
PP
2265JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2266 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2267 (Finput)
edae0343 2268
9bd3e22c
NM
2269NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2270 Patch from Alain Williams
2271
bb576ff7
NM
2272NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2273
5a1a5845
NM
2274NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2275 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2276
981a9fad
NM
2277NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2278 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2279
7fc497ee
NM
2280NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2281
1a41defa
JJ
2282JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2283
a466095c 2284NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2285 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2286
94a6bd0b
NM
2287TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2288
2289TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2290
2291MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2292 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2293 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2294
c1b141a8
NM
2295NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2296 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2297
b26eacf1 2298NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2299 Patch by Simon Arlott
2300
179c5980 2301PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2302 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2303
9bd3e22c 2304
7c6d71af
NM
2305Exim version 4.71
2306-----------------
2307
7d9f747b 2308TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2309
f013fb92
NM
2310NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2311
0eb8eedd
NM
2312NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2313
663ee6d9
NM
2314NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2315
177ebd9b
NM
2316NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2317
7c6d71af 2318
210f147e
NM
2319Exim version 4.70
2320-----------------
2321
cdd3bb85 2322TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2323 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2324
2325TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2326 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2327 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2328
2329TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2330 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2331 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2332
2333TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2334 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2335
210f147e
NM
2336NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2337 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2338 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2339 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2340
deafd5b3
NM
2341NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2342 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2343 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2344
089793a4
TF
2345TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2346
5f16ca82
TF
2347TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2348
dae9d94e 2349NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2350 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2351
7d9f747b 2352NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2353
06864c44
TF
2354TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2355 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2356 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2357 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2358
65a7d8c3 2359NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2360 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2361
23510047 2362TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2363
7d9f747b 2364NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2365
7d8eec3a 2366NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2367 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2368
89dec7b6
TF
2369TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2370 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2371
a99de90c
TF
2372TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2373 that they are available at delivery time.
2374
e2803e40
TF
2375TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2376
7199e1ee
TF
2377TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2378 incoming_port log selectors.
2379
e276e04b
TF
2380TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2381 setting expands to an empty string.
2382
ce552449 2383NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2384 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2385
e765a0f1 2386NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2387 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2388
4f054c63 2389NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2390 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2391
7d9f747b
PP
2392NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2393 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2394
7d9f747b
PP
2395NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2396 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2397
b52bc06e 2398NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2399 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2400
447de4b0
NM
2401NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2402
4c69d561 2403NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2404 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2405
d5c39246 2406NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2407 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2408
0b23848a
TK
2409TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2410
8f3414a1 2411NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2412 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2413
fb6f955d
NM
2414NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2415
2416NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2417
7d9f747b
PP
2418NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2419 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2420
7d9f747b
PP
2421NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2422 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2423
7d9f747b
PP
2424NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2425 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2426
7d9f747b
PP
2427NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2428 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2429
7d9f747b
PP
2430NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2431 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2432
7d9f747b
PP
2433NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2434 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2435
7d9f747b
PP
2436NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2437 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2438
7d9f747b 2439NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2440 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2441
7d9f747b 2442NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2443
7d9f747b
PP
2444NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2445 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2446
7d9f747b 2447NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2448
7d9f747b 2449NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2450
7d9f747b 2451NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2452
7d9f747b 2453NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2454
17792b53 2455NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2456 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2457
7d9f747b
PP
2458NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2459 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2460
91576cec 2461NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2462 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2463
7d9f747b
PP
2464NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2465 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2466
7d9f747b 2467NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2468
7d9f747b 2469NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2470
7d9f747b 2471NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2472
7d9f747b 2473NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2474
deafd5b3 2475
47db1125
NM
2476Exim version 4.69
2477-----------------
2478
4b3504d0
TK
2479TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2480 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2481 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2482
2483 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2484 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2485 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2486 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2487 build errors in sieve.c.
2488
81ea09ca
NM
2489NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2490 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2491 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2492
f13cddcb
SC
2493SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2494
7d9f747b 2495NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2496
7d9f747b 2497NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2498
7d9f747b 2499NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2500
2501
eb4c0de6
PH
2502Exim version 4.68
2503-----------------
2504
2505PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2506
6a3bceb1
PH
2507PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2508 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2509 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2510 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2511 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2512 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2513 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2514 for iplsearch lookups.
2515
2516 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2517 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2518 previously such lookups could never work.
2519
4c04137d 2520 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2521 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2522 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2523
2e30fa9d
TK
2524TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2525 version.
2526
0806a9c5
MH
2527MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2528 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2529 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2530 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2531 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2532 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2533
ae276964
TK
2534TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2535 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2536
0f2cbd1b
MH
2537MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2538 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2539 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2540 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2541 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2542 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2543
2b85bce7
PH
2544PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2545 local_scan API.
2546
93655c46
PH
2547PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2548
6c512171
PH
2549PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2550 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2551 encrypted.
2552
2553PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2554 by clients under certain conditions.
2555
aa6dc513
PH
2556PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2557 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2558
a96603a0
PH
2559PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2560
8f240103
PH
2561PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2562 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2563
2564PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2565
d677b2f2
PH
2566PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2567
d52120f2
PH
2568PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2569
64f2600a
PH
2570PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2571 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2572
8669f003
PH
2573PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2574
a4dc33a8
PH
2575PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2576 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2577
d6a60c0f
PH
2578PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2579
8f128379
PH
2580PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2581
8932dffe
PH
2582PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2583 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2584 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2585 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2586
ddea74fa 2587PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2588 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2589 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2590
ddea74fa 2591PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2592 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2593
ddea74fa
PH
2594PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2595
ce9f225c
PH
2596PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2597
19897d52
PH
2598PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2599
bc64a74d
PH
2600PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2601 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2602 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2603
eb4c0de6 2604
b4ed4da0
PH
2605Exim version 4.67
2606-----------------
2607
22ad45c9
MH
2608MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2609 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2610 Jan Srzednicki.
2611
b4ed4da0
PH
2612PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2613 issue a MAIL command.
2614
431b7361
PH
2615PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2616
2617 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2618
2619 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2620 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2621 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2622 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2623 item. This has been fixed.
2624
2625PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2626 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2627
83da1223
PH
2628PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2629 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2630
54fc8428
PH
2631PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2632 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2633 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2634
34c5e8dd
SC
2635SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2636
bbe15da8
PH
2637PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2638 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2639 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2640 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2641 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2642
0e8a9471
MH
2643MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2644 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2645 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2646
f0872424
PH
2647PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2648 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2649 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2650 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2651
b01dd148
PH
2652PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2653
6bf342e1
PH
2654PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2655
273f34d0
PH
2656PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2657 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2658 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2659 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2660 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2661
cf8b11a5
PH
2662PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2663
41c7c167
PH
2664PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2665 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2666 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2667 values).
2668
9c57cbc0
PH
2669PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2670
f3f065bb
PH
2671PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2672
047bdd8c
PH
2673PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2674
0ce9abe6
PH
2675PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2676
0e22dfd1
PH
2677PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2678
4c590bd1
PH
2679PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2680 no_callout_flush is set.
2681
09945f1e
PH
2682PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2683 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2684 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2685 fixed.
2686
c51b8e75
PH
2687PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2688
e28326d8 2689PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2690 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2691 other ACL rejections are.
2692
75b1493f
PH
2693PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2694 with slight modification.
2695
7c5214ec
PH
2696PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2697 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2698
4311097e
PH
2699PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2700 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2701 connection.
2702
29f89cad
PH
2703PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2704 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2705
5e687460
SC
2706SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2707
c3611384
PH
2708PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2709 expansion side effects.
2710
5a11a7b4
PH
2711PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2712 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2713 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2714 be the same.
2715
0e20aff9
MH
2716MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2717 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2718 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2719
ca86f471
PH
2720PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2721 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2722 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2723 were accidentally chopped off.
2724
a14e5636
PH
2725PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2726 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2727 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2728 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2729 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2730 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2731 pipelining has not been advertised.
2732
ec95d1a6
PH
2733PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2734
42855d71
PH
2735PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2736 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2737 This has been fixed.
2738
57c2c631
PH
2739PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2740 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2741 reported on Solaris.
2742
58c01c94
PH
2743PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2744 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2745 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2746 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2747 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2748 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2749 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2750
dee5a20a
PH
2751PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2752 cpus.
2753
d2ee6114
PH
2754PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2755
b2d5182b
PH
2756PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2757
79749a79
PH
2758PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2759 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2760 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2761 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2762 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2763 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2764
c456d9bb
PH
2765PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2766 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2767 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2768 host_all_ignored option.
2769
cd9868ec
PH
2770PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2771 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2772 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2773 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2774 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2775 is what is supposed to happen).
2776
ebeaf996
PH
2777PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2778 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2779 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2780 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2781 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2782 uses the Exim user.
2783
2679d413
PH
2784PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2785 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2786 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2787 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2788 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2789 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2790 users.
2791
84024b72
PH
2792PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2793
8005d38e
SC
2794SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2795 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2796 (Jez Hancock).
2797 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2798 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2799
3298c6c6
SC
2800SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2801
a43a27c5
PH
2802PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2803
58eb016e 2804PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2805 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2806 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2807 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2808 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2809 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2810 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2811 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2812 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2813 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2814 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2815
b43a74ea
PH
2816PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2817 advertised in response to EHLO.
2818
b4ed4da0 2819
5dd1517f
PH
2820Exim version 4.66
2821-----------------
2822
2823PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2824 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2825
2826 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2827 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2828
2829 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2830 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2831 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2832
2833 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2834 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2835 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2836 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2837 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2838
2839
93cfa765
TK
2840Exim version 4.65
2841-----------------
2842
2843TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2844 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2845 versions. (#438)
2846
d6066548
MH
2847MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2848 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2849 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2850
4362ff0d
PH
2851PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2852 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2853 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2854 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2855 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2856 rather than extend the field.
2857
93cfa765 2858
944e9e9c
TF
2859Exim version 4.64
2860-----------------
aa41d2de 2861
21d74bd9
TK
2862TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2863 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2864 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2865 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2866 these files.
2867
2868TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2869 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2870 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2871
2872TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2873 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2874 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2875
2876TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2877 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2878 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2879 in the field name.
2880
2b1c6e3a
PH
2881PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2882 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2883 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2884 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2885 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2886 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2887 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2888 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2889 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2890 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2891 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2892
1f872c80
PH
2893PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2894 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2895
2896PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2897 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2898 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2899 ignores EPIPE as well.
2900
d203e649
PH
2901PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2902 (quoted-printable decoding).
2903
cc2ed8f7 2904PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2905 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2906
ddfcd446
PH
2907PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2908
d45b1de8
PH
2909PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2910
2911PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2912
38a0a95f 2913PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2914 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2915
a2405d83
JJ
2916JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2917 in 4.64-PH/09.
2918
2919JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2920 miscellaneous code fixes
2921
6ea85e9a
PH
2922PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2923 rejections.
2924
26da7e20
PH
2925PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2926 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2927 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2928 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2929 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2930 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2931 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2932 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2933
14aa5a05 2934PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2935 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2936 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2937 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2938 function.
2939 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2940 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2941 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2942 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2943 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2944 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2945 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2946 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2947 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2948
ff75a1f7
PH
2949PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2950 decoding.
2951
e6f6568e
PH
2952PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2953 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2954 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2955 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2956 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2957 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2958 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2959 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2960
d6f6e0dc
PH
2961PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2962 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2963 list.
2964
322050c2
PH
2965PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2966 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2967 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2968 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2969 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2970 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2971 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2972 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2973 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2974 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2975 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2976 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2977 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2978
08955dd3
PH
2979PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2980 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2981 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2982 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2983 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2984 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2985 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2986
1eccaa59
PH
2987PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2988 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2989 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2990 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2991 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2992 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2993 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2994 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2995 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2996 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2997
602e59e5
PH
2998PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2999 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3000 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3001 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3002 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3003
411ef850
PH
3004PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3005 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3006 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3007 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3008 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3009 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3010 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3011
7befa435
PH
3012PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3013 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3014 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3015 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3016 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3017 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3018 been verified.
3019
48da4259 3020PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3021 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3022 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3023 and authorization.)
3024
48da4259
PH
3025PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3026 if any retry times were supplied.
3027
d1d5595c
PH
3028PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3029 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3030 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3031
0ef732d9
PH
3032PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3033
328895cc
PH
3034PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3035
fd700877
PH
3036PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3037 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3038 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3039 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3040 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3041 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3042
8dce1a6f
PH
3043PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3044 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3045
17af4a17
PH
3046PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3047 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3048 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3049
3050PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3051 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3052 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3053 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3054 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3055 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3056 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3057 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3058 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3059
3060 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3061 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3062 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3063 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3064 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3065 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3066 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3067 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3068 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3069
3070 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3071 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3072 hammering the server.
3073
c1114884
PH
3074PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3075 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3076
7a0743eb
PH
3077PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3078
0d85fa3f
PH
3079PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3080 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3081 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3082
1bf43b78
PH
3083PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3084 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3085 one case where this was not true.
3086
520de300
PH
3087PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3088 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3089 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3090 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3091 fails.
3092
48c7f9e2
PH
3093PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3094 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3095 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3096 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3097 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3098 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3099 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3100 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3101 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3102 smtp transport.
3103
99ea1c86
PH
3104PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3105 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3106 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3107 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3108
a2042e78
PH
3109PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3110 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3111
4fbcfc2e
PH
3112PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3113 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3114 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3115
aa41d2de
PH
3116PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3117
af561417
PH
3118PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3119
3cc66b45
PH
3120PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3121
194cc0e4
PH
3122PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3123 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3124 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3125 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3126
a401ddaa
PH
3127PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3128 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3129
4e88a19f
PH
3130PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3131 be meaningful with "accept".
3132
d7d7b289
SC
3133SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3134 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3135
3136SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3137 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3138 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3139
3140SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3141 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3142 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3143 there is data to show.
3144 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3145
3146SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3147 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3148 as well as the number of messages.
3149
3150SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3151 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3152 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3153
3154SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3155 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3156 have a flag are now skipped.
3157
3158SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3159 Added the -emptyok flag.
3160
3161SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3162 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3163
0ea2a468
JJ
3164JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3165 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3166 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3167
3168JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3169 match 4.64-PH/13
3170
3171JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3172 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3173
3174JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3175
3176JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3177 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3178
8a10f5a4
PH
3179PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3180
30e18802
PH
3181PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3182 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3183 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3184 contravention of the specifications.
3185
55728a4f
PH
3186PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3187 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3188 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3189
d7837193
PH
3190PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3191 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3192 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3193
87054a31
PH
3194PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3195
ea2c01d2
MH
3196MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3197 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3198 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3199 some point in the past.
3200
e4fa6968
PH
3201PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3202 transport during callout processing was broken.
3203
56f5d9bd
PH
3204PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3205 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3206
922e1c28
PH
3207PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3208 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3209
21eb6e72
PH
3210PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3211 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3212
a0540757
PH
3213PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3214
944e9e9c 3215
478be7b0
SC
3216Exim version 4.63
3217-----------------
3218
3219SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3220 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3221
3222SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3223 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3224 there is data to show.
3225 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3226
3227SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3228 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3229
2b965a65
TF
3230TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3231 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3232
45b91596
PH
3233TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3234 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3235
c59f5781
TF
3236TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3237 submissions from trusted users.
3238
90fc3069
TF
3239TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3240 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3241
6083aca0
TF
3242TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3243 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3244 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3245 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3246 there is now a framework to start from.
3247
765b530f
PH
3248PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3249 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3250 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3251
4e167a8c
PH
3252PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3253
4608d683
PH
3254PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3255
b8dc3e4a
PH
3256PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3257
5418e93b
PH
3258PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3259 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3260 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3261
b4a9bda2
PH
3262PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3263 libradius.
3264
45b91596
PH
3265PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3266 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3267 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3268
5547e2c5
PH
3269PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3270 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3271 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3272 its arguments.
3273
dbcef0ea
PH
3274PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3275 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3276 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3277 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3278 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3279
25257489
PH
3280PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3281 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3282
c816d124
PH
3283PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3284
a9ccd69a
PH
3285PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3286 operations in malware.c.
3287
75fa1910
PH
3288PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3289 signatures.
3290
a7d7aa58
PH
3291PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3292 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3293 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3294 all.
3295
42119b09
PH
3296PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3297 statements to "add_header".
3298
41609df5
PH
3299PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3300 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3301
a5bd321b
PH
3302PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3303 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3304 latter.
3305
e85a7ad5 3306PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3307 so that it is now:
3308
e85a7ad5
PH
3309 ${if or { \
3310 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3311 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3312 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3313 }{no}{yes}}
3314
e85a7ad5
PH
3315 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3316 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3317
d8fe1c03
PH
3318PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3319 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3320
16282d2b
PH
3321PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3322 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3323 any possible encoding problems.
3324
35d40a98
PH
3325PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3326 but not after initializing Perl.
3327
034d99ab
PH
3328PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3329 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3330 apparently, which is not desirable.
3331
6ec97b1b
PH
3332PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3333 queries.
3334
e22ca4ac
JJ
3335JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3336 --not options
3337
3338JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3339
33d73e3b
PH
3340PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3341 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3342 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3343 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3344
9ecb03f3
PH
3345PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3346 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3347 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3348
084efe8d
PH
3349PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3350 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3351 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3352 0.12.
3353
366fc9f0
PH
3354PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3355 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3356 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3357 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3358 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3359
c59f5781 3360
c887c79e
TF
3361Exim version 4.62
3362-----------------
3363
3364TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3365 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3366
1cce3af8
PH
3367PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3368 patch).
3369
afb3eaaf
PH
3370PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3371 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3372 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3373 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3374 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3375 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3376 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3377 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3378 451 error is used.
3379
e173618b
PH
3380PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3381
dd16e114
PH
3382PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3383 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3384 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3385
f7fd3850
PH
3386PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3387 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3388 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3389 odd errors.
3390
d87df92c
PH
3391PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3392 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3393
7e9f683d
PH
3394PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3395 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3396 option (which defaults to 0600).
3397
bfad5236
PH
3398PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3399
01c490df
PH
3400PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3401 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3402 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3403 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3404 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3405 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3406 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3407
d6629cdc
PH
3408PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3409
1cce3af8 3410
214e2000
PH
3411Exim version 4.61
3412-----------------
3413
3414PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3415 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3416 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3417 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3418 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3419 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3420 addresses as local.
3421
f9daeae0
PH
3422PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3423 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3424
7e66e54d
PH
3425PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3426
c8ea1597
PH
3427PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3428 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3429 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3430 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3431 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3432 grumble.
3433
911f6fde
PH
3434PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3435 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3436
47ca6d6c
PH
3437PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3438 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3439 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3440 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3441 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3442
ed0e9820
PH
3443PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3444 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3445 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3446 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3447
eff37e47
PH
3448PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3449 be the same on different OS.
3450
1921d2ea
PH
3451PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3452 testing.
3453
b3f69ca8
JJ
3454JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3455 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3456
3457JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3458 in 4.61-PH/06
3459
424a1c63
PH
3460PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3461 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3462 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3463 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3464 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3465 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3466 bounce message.
3467
7a100415
PH
3468PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3469 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3470 when Exim was called.
3471
19b9dc85
PH
3472PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3473 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3474
309bd837
PH
3475PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3476 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3477 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3478 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3479
59e82a2a
PH
3480PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3481 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3482 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3483 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3484 changes:
3485
3486 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3487 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3488 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3489
3490 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3491 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3492 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3493
9edc04ce
PH
3494PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3495 feature).
3496
1349e1e5
PH
3497PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3498 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3499 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3500 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3501 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3502 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3503 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3504 values from the SRV records were lost.
3505
ea49d0e1
PH
3506PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3507 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3508 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3509
064a94c9
PH
3510PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3511 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3512 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3513
727071f8
PH
3514PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3515 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3516 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3517 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3518 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3519 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3520 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3521 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3522 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3523 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3524
f78eb7c6
PH
3525PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3526 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3527 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3528
21c28500
PH
3529PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3530 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3531
3532PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3533 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3534 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3535 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3536 is given.
3537
1688f43b
PH
3538PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3539 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3540 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3541
3542PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3543 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3544 PH/23 above applies.
3545
9675b384
PH
3546PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3547 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3548 (for which there is an explicit test).
3549
6a3f1455
PH
3550PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3551
dac79d3e
PH
3552PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3553 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3554 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3555 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3556 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3557
5977a0b3
PH
3558PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3559 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3560 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3561 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3562
c91535f3
PH
3563PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3564 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3565 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3566
0d46a8c8
PH
3567PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3568
278c6e6c
PH
3569PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3570
2cbb4081
PH
3571PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3572 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3573 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3574
3eef829e
PH
3575PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3576 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3577 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3578 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3579 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3580
1ab95fa6
PH
3581PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3582 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3583 the message gets confusing).
3584
230205fc
PH
3585PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3586 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3587 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3588 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3589
75e0e026
PH
3590PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3591 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3592 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3593 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3594 same order.
3595
3596PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3597 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3598 the different processes.
3599
145396a6
PH
3600PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3601
3cd34f13
PH
3602PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3603
11121d3d
JJ
3604JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3605 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3606
3607JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3608 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3609
3610JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3611 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3612 messages matching specified criteria.
3613
8def5aaf
PH
3614PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3615
929ba01c
PH
3616PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3617 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3618
2632889e
PH
3619PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3620 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3621 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3622 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3623 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3624 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3625 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3626 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3627 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3628 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3629
944a9c55
PH
3630PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3631 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3632 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3633
4a23603b
PH
3634PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3635
4730f942
PH
3636PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3637 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3638 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3639 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3640 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3641 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3642 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3643 the variable.
3644
30dba1e6
PH
3645PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3646 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3647
382afc6b
PH
3648PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3649
a86229cf
PH
3650PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3651
50c99ba6
PH
3652PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3653
d35e429d
PH
3654PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3655 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3656 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3657 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3658 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3659 size of the count of files.
3660
f90d018c
PH
3661PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3662
75def545
PH
3663PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3664 used in LMTP mode:
3665
3666 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3667 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3668 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3669 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3670
3671 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3672 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3673 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3674
3675PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3676 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3677 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3678 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3679 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3680
c46782ef
PH
3681PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3682 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3683
71fafd95
PH
3684PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3685 will now be deprecated.
3686
2c5db4fd
PH
3687PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3688
9cf6b11a
JJ
3689JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3690 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3691 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3692
3693JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3694 with very large, slow to parse queues
3695
3696JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3697
3698JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3699
898d150f
PH
3700PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3701 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3702 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3703 SMTP output lines.
3704
46218253
PH
3705PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3706 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3707 Sieve code now uses this.
3708
e97957bc
PH
3709PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3710 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3711
81e509d7
PH
3712PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3713 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3714
3d240ff7
PH
3715PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3716
b37c4101
PH
3717PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3718 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3719 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3720 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3721 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3722
79378e0f
PH
3723PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3724 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3725 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3726 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3727
e49c7bb4
PH
3728PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3729
d114ec46
PH
3730PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3731
f3d7df6c
PH
3732PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3733 is preferred over IPv4.
3734
715ab376
PH
3735PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3736 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3737 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3738 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3739 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3740 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3741 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3742
6b31b150
PH
3743PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3744 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3745 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3746
3747PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3748
d515a917
PH
3749PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3750 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3751 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3752 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3753 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3754 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3755 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3756 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3757 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3758 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3759 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3760
9b8fadde
PH
3761PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3762 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3763 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3764
214e2000 3765
5de37277
PH
3766Exim version 4.60
3767-----------------
3768
cc38ddbf
PH
3769PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3770
3771 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3772 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3773
3774 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3775 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3776 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3777
72fdd6ae
PH
3778PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3779
3780 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3781 not a single digit.
3782
3783 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3784 string.
3785
3786 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3787 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3788 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3789 silly things.
3790
3791 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3792 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3793
3794 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3795 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3796
cb741023
PH
3797PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3798 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3799 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3800
f174f16e
PH
3801PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3802 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3803
c25242d7
PH
3804PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3805 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3806
3807 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3808
3809 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3810 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3811 this:
3812
3813 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3814
82c19f95
PH
3815PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3816 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3817 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3818 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3819 identical. For example:
3820
3821 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3822
3823 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3824 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3825 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3826
d7ffbc12
PH
3827PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3828 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3829 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3830 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3831
9f526266
PH
3832PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3833 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3834 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3835 message.
3836
87fcc8b9
PH
3837PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3838
3839 o fixes some comments
3840 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3841 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3842 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3843 and documents the missing references header update
3844
3845 and most important:
3846
3847 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3848 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3849 result)
3850
456682f5
PH
3851PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3852 Electronic Mail") by including:
3853
3854 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3855
3856 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3857 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3858 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3859 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3860 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3861
3862 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3863
3864 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3865
3866 The auto-replied keyword:
3867
3868 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3869 message by an automatic process,
3870
3871 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3872
3873 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3874 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3875
3876 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3877 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3878 other messages.
3879
3e46c1aa
PH
3880PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3881 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3882
49826d12
PH
3883PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3884
eba0c039
PH
3885PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3886 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3887 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3888
a0d6ba8a
PH
3889PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3890 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3891 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3892
f0917727
PH
3893PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3894 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3895 and treats the condition as false.
3896
096fee00
PH
3897PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3898
024bd3c2
PH
3899PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3900 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3901 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3902 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3903 not changing the active code.
3904
3905 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3906 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3907
3908 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3909 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3910
df199fec
PH
3911PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3912 (Bugzilla #53).
3913
d27f1df3
PH
3914PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3915 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3916 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3917 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3918 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3919 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3920 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3921 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3922 the text comparison.
3923
96776534
PH
3924PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3925 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3926 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3927 The same fix has been applied.
3928
5de37277 3929
9a799bc0
PH
3930Exim version 4.54
3931-----------------
3932
3933PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3934 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3935 It now does.
3936
99a4b039
PH
3937PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3938 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3939
3940PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3941
4b233853
PH
3942PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3943 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3944 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3945 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3946 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3947
8857ccfd
PH
3948TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3949 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3950 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3951 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3952 or /domain=).
3953
433a2980
PH
3954PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3955 testing suite.
3956
3e46c1aa 3957
9a799bc0 3958
e3a311ba
TK
3959Exim version 4.53
3960-----------------
3961
3962TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3963 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3964
13b685f9
PH
3965PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3966
395ff96d
PH
3967PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3968
5b68f6e4
PH
3969PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3970 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3971 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3972
1ab52c69
PH
3973PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3974 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3975 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3976
b07e6aa3
PH
3977PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3978 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3979 operating systems.
3980
254e032f
PH
3981PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3982 ${stat: expansion item.
3983
3af76a81
PH
3984PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3985 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3986
2548ba04
PH
3987PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3988 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3989 file for comments.
3990
b6c6011d
PH
3991PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3992
cf39cf57
PH
3993PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3994 setting.
3995
f1513293
PH
3996PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3997 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3998
727549a4
PH
3999TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4000
af46795e
PH
4001PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4002 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4003 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4004 the end of the subprocess.
4005
d7b47fd0
PH
4006PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4007 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4008 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4009 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4010 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4011
ee744174
JJ
4012JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4013
b582ab87
PH
4014TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4015
41a13e0a
PH
4016PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4017 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4018
f625cc5a
PH
4019PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4020
4021PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4022
21f7af35
PH
4023PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4024 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4025 HP-UX compiler.
4026
31480e42
PH
4027PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4028
2d280592
PH
4029PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4030 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4031 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4032
7cd1141b
PH
4033PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4034 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4035
4036PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4037 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4038
750af86e
PH
4039PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4040 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4041
4042 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4043 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4044
4045 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4046 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4047 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4048 contributed by a Radius user.
4049
4050PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4051 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4052
4304270b
TK
4053TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4054 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4055
750af86e
PH
4056PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4057 available.
4058
64ffc24f
PH
4059PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4060 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4061 received.
4062
5dd9625b
PH
4063PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4064 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4065 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4066 header lines when this was not necessary.
4067
5591031b
PH
4068PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4069
ba18e66a
PH
4070PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4071 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4072 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4073 exists".
4074
9cec981f
PH
4075PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4076 -bV or -d is used.
4077
aa2b5c79
PH
4078PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4079 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4080 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4081 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4082
48a53b7f
PH
4083PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4084
1c59d63b
PH
4085PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4086
671012da
TK
4087TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4088
1509d3a8
PH
4089PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4090
4091PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4092 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4093 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4094 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4095 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4096 settings.
4097
4098PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4099
2fe1a124
PH
4100PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4101 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4102 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4103 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4104 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4105 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4106 which is clearly wrong.
4107
8800895a
PH
4108PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4109
ccfdb010
PH
4110PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4111 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4112 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4113 subsequently added.
4114
1130bfb0
PH
4115PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4116 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4117
ebcb507f
PH
4118PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4119
c35e155c
PH
4120PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4121 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4122
95d1f782
PH
4123PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4124 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4125
fd6de02e
PH
4126PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4127 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4128
58de37c5
PH
4129PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4130 recipients, not senders.
4131
261cf466
TF
4132TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4133 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4134
3ee512ff
PH
4135PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4136
e08c430f
PH
4137PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4138
bef5a11f
PH
4139PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4140 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4141 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4142 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4143
7546de58
TF
4144TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4145
e5d5a95f
TF
4146TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4147 clock is set back in time.
4148
2e88a017
TF
4149TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4150 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4151
a5f65aa4
TF
4152TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4153 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4154
e7726cbf
PH
4155PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4156 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4157 (see PH/47 above).
4158
a7fdad5b
TF
4159TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4160 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4161 header rewrites.
4162
6af56900
PH
4163PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4164 type ("H").
4165
0925ede6
PH
4166PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4167
66afa403
TF
4168TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4169 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4170 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4171
0154e85a
TF
4172TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4173 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4174 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4175 helo verification defer as a failure.
4176
16f12c76
PH
4177PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4178 actual error message.
4179
bbe902f0 4180
e5a9dba6
PH
4181Exim version 4.52
4182-----------------
4183
4184TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4185
22c3b60b
PH
4186PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4187 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4188 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4189 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4190
06a9b4b5
PH
4191TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4192
c1ac6996
PH
4193PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4194 can still be requested.
4195
9c7a242c
PH
4196PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4197 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4198 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4199 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4200
87ba3f5f
PH
4201TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4202 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4203 circumstances, but probably never did.
4204
4205PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4206 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4207 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4208 in the header line.
4209
29aba418
TF
4210TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4211
fe0dab11
TF
4212TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4213 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4214
11d337a4
TK
4215TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4216
4217TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4218
415c8f3b
PH
4219PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4220 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4221 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4222 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4223 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4224 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4225
958541e9
PH
4226PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4227 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4228 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4229 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4230 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4231 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4232
c206415f
TK
4233TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4234 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4235
2a4be8f9
PH
4236PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4237 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4238
1cba11c5
SC
4239SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4240 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4241
4c04137d 4242SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4243
4244SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4245
4246SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4247
4248SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4249
4250SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4251
4252SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4253
1005d00e
TK
4254TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4255
4256TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4257 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4258 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4259
4260TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4261 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4262 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4263 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4264
9b4768fa
PH
4265PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4266 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4267 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4268
4269PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4270 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4271 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4272 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4273
0d7eb84a
PH
4274PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4275 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4276 to be made).
4277
4278PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4279 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4280 should work with maildirs and everything.
4281
40727bee
TK
4282TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4283 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4284
554d2369
TF
4285TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4286 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4287
1f922db1
PH
4288PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4289 function for BDB 4.3.
4290
ef213c3b
PH
4291PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4292
8ac170f3
PH
4293PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4294 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4295 involved.
4296
b1c749bb
PH
4297PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4298 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4299 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4300 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4301 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4302 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4303
4aac9b49
PH
4304PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4305 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4306 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4307 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4308 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4309 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4310 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4311 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4312
294520c8
TK
4313TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4314 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4315 details.
4316
5bd022fe
PH
4317PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4318 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4319
90e9ce59
PH
4320PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4321 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4322 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4323 test. It is now used for both.
4324
5ea81592
PH
4325PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4326 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4327 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4328 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4329 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4330 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4331
c6c2dc1d
PH
4332PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4333 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4334 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4335 string_vformat().
4336
fffffe4c
PH
4337PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4338 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4339 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4340
9a26b6b2
PH
4341PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4342 experimental DomainKeys support:
4343
4344 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4345 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4346 the control was given.
4347
4348 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4349
4aee0225
PH
4350PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4351
32d668a5
PH
4352PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4353
8187c3f3
PH
4354PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4355 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4356 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4357 db.h files).
4358
ff790e47 4359PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4360 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4361 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4362 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4363 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4364 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4365 course.
ff790e47 4366
5417f6d1
PH
4367PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4368 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4369 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4370 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4371 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4372 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4373
59cf8544
PH
4374PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4375 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4376 do -d+all out of habit.
4377
e7ad8a65
PH
4378PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4379 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4380 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4381
ade42478
PH
4382PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4383 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4384 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4385 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4386 record types that Exim uses.
4387
182ad5cf
PH
4388PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4389 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4390 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4391 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4392 non-existent file that was broken.
4393
b0d9fc80
TK
4394TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4395 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4396
4397TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4398 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4399 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4400
4401TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4402
47c7a64a
PH
4403PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4404 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4405 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4406 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4407 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4408 same time.
4409
a388bce4
SC
4410SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4411 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4412 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4413 at a slight CPU cost.
4414
4415SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4416 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4417
4418SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4419 by Marc Sherman.
4420
0793e4ed
SC
4421SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4422
c58b88df
PH
4423PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4424 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4425
e7ad8a65 4426
7982096b
PH
4427Exim version 4.51
4428-----------------
4429
1a46a8c5
PH
4430TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4431 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4432
2f079f46 4433TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4434
4435TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4436
4437PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4438 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4439
4440PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4441 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4442 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4443 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4444 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4445 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4446 file.
4447
4448PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4449 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4450 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4451 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4452 these two options.
4453
4454PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4455 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4456 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4457 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4458 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4459 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4460 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4461 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4462
4463PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4464 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4465
4466PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4467 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4468 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4469 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4470 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4471 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4472
4473PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4474 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4475 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4476 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4477
4478PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4479 Finch).
4480
4481PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4482 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4483
49c2d5ea
PH
4484PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4485 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4486 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4487 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4488 message.
49c2d5ea 4489
bf759a8b
PH
4490PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4491
83364d30
PH
4492PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4493 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4494
7999bbd7
PH
4495PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4496 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4497 to what was transported.)
4498
7dbf77c9
PH
4499TF/01 Added $received_time.
4500
74e0617f
PH
4501PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4502 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4503 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4504 spamd_address settings.
4505
2f079f46
PH
4506PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4507 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4508 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4509 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4510 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4511
8c841523
PH
4512PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4513
7766a4f0
PH
4514PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4515 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4516 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4517 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4518 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4519
8b417f2c
PH
4520PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4521 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4522
901f42cb
PH
4523PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4524 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4525 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4526 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4527 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4528 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4529 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4530 for failure.
4531
f9b9210e
PH
4532PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4533 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4534 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4535 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4536 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4537 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4538 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4539 "input=".
4540
54cdb463
PH
4541PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4542
cf00dad6
PH
4543PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4544 driver and ACL definitions.
4545
acb1b346
PH
4546PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4547 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4548
c5ddb310
PH
4549PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4550 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4551 understands it better than I do:
4552
4553 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4554 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4555
4556 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4557 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4558 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4559 => three warnings about OTP not working
4560 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4561
4562 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4563 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4564 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4565 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4566 for each call.)
4567 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4568 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4569
4570 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4571 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4572 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4573
31619da6
PH
4574PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4575 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4576 specified.
4577
bebaf0fc
PH
4578PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4579 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4580 "Linux".
4581
475fe28a
PH
4582PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4583 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4584 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4585
4586 warn !verify = sender
4587 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4588
4589 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4590 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4591
7e8bec7a
PH
4592PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4593
4594 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4595 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4596
4597 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4598 nomenclature these days.)
4599
e4a89c47
PH
4600PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4601 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4602
5ca2a9a1
PH
4603PH/30 In these circumstances:
4604 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4605 . First host does not offer TLS;
4606 . First host accepts first address;
4607 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4608 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4609 . Second host accepts second address.
4610 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4611 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4612 address.
7e8bec7a 4613
c688b954
PH
4614PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4615 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4616 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4617 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4618 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4619
fed77020
PH
4620PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4621 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4622
7fe1560f
PH
4623PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4624 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4625
ebb6e6d5
PH
4626PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4627 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4628 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4629
9c4e8f60
PH
4630PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4631 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4632 overlooked.
4633
4634PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4635
d7174846
PH
4636PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4637 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4638 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4639 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4640 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4641 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4642 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4643
4644 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4645 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4646 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4647 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4648 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4649
4650 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4651 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4652 routed further.
4653
cfe75fc3
PH
4654PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4655 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4656 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4657 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4658 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4659 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4660
be22d70e
PH
4661PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4662
0612b098
PH
4663PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4664 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4665 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4666 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4667 printable escape sequences.
4668
2e0c1448
PH
4669PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4670 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4671 body only.
4672
447d236c
PH
4673PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4674 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4675 are as follows:
4676
4677 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4678 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4679 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4680 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4681 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4682
4683 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4684 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4685 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4686
d20976dc
PH
4687PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4688
f656d135
PH
4689PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4690 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4691 play with."
4692
2e2a30b4
PH
4693PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4694 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4695 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4696 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4697 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4698 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4699 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4700 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4701 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4702 the log output.
4703
9176e9f0
PH
4704PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4705 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4706 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4707 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4708 "make".
4709
7982096b 4710
bbe902f0
PH
4711A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4712----------------------------------------
4713
4714Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4715changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4716needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4717in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4718that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4719release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4720from 4.43.
4721
4722I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
47234.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4724those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4725historical information.
4726
4727
f7b63901 4728Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4729-----------------
4730
5fe762f6
PH
4731 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4732
139059f6 4733 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4734 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4735
7086e875
PH
4736 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4737 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4738 place.
4739
35af9f61
PH
4740 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4741 filter fails to execute.
4742
b668c215
PH
4743 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4744 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4745 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4746 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4747 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4748
a494b1e1
PH
4749 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4750
4751 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4752 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4753 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4754 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4755
c5fcb476
PH
4756 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4757 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4758 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4759 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4760 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4761
69358f02
PH
4762 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4763
5be20824
PH
476410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4765
eb2c0248
PH
476611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4767 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4768 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4769 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4770
2a3eea10
PH
477112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4772 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4773 sender verification.
4774
477513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4776 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4777
23c7ff99
PH
477814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4779
4deaf07d
PH
478015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4781 connection timeout.
4782
926e1192
PH
478316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4784 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4785
650edc6f
PH
478617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4787 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4788
2c7db3f5
PH
478918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4790 information about exactly what failed.
4791
3d235903
PH
479219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4793
7c7ad977
PH
479420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4795 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4796 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4797
981756db
PH
479821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4799 It is now set to "smtps".
4800
d4eb88df
PH
480122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4802 ignore_target_hosts.
4803
480423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4805 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4806 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4807 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4808 "[x.x.x.x]".
4809
7d468ab8
PH
481024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4811 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4812 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4813
481425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4815 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4816 wake it up if nothing else does.
4817
62c0818f
PH
481826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4819 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4820 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4821 end up negative.
4822
26034054
PH
482327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4824 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4825
af66f652
PH
482628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4827
90af77f4
PH
482829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4829 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4830 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4831 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4832 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4833 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4834 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4835 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4836
d8ef3577
PH
483730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4838 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4839 than one IP address.
4840
5cb8cbc6
PH
484131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4842 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4843 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4844 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4845
14702f5b
PH
484632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4847 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4848 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4849 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4850 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4851 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4852
063b1e99
PH
485333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4854 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4855 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4856 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4857
652e1b65
PH
485834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4859 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4860 respected.
4861
6f0c9a4f
PH
486235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4863 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4864 $sender_host_address.
4865
33397d19
PH
486636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4867 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4868 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4869 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4870 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4871 very small.
4872
7bb56e1f
PH
487337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4874
4875 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4876 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4877
ea3bc19b
PH
4878 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4879 just the host names, not the priorities.
4880
4881 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4882 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4883 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4884
ea3bc19b 4885 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4886 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4887
0bcb2a0e
PH
488838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4889 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4890 domain.
4891
2ac0e484
PH
489239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4893
4e1fde53
PH
489440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4895 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4896
de365ded
PH
489741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4898 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4899 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4900
f05da2e8
PH
490142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4902
d6453af2
PH
490343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4904
f7b63901
PH
490544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4906
490745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4908 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4909 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4910 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4911 because the tests only now provoked it.
4912
a444213a
PH
491346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4914 (this can affect the format of dates).
4915
0ec020ea
PH
491647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4917 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4918 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4919 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4920
b1206957
PH
492148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4922
492349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4924 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4925 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4926 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4927
26dd5a95
PH
492850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4929 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4930 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4931
343b2385
PH
493251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4933 autoreply.
4934
1c5466b9
PH
493552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4936 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4937 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4938 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4939 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4940 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4941 is going on).
4942
55ee9ee3
PH
494353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4944 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4945 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4946 the line.
4947
d38f8232
PH
494854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4949 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4950 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4951
4952 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4953 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4954 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4955 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4956 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4957 so I produce this patch..."
4958
3295e65b
PH
4959 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4960 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4961 is not defined.
4962
7102e136
PH
496355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4964 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4965 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4966 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4967 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4968
3ca0ba97
PH
496956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4970
c2bcbe20
PH
497157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4972 long debug lines gets shown.
4973
18ce445d
PH
497458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4975 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4976
1f5b4c3d
PH
497759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4978
4979 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4980 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4981 of $primary_hostname.
4982
b975ba52
PH
498360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4984 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4985 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4986 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4987 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4988 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4989 by change 4.50/55 above.
4990
4991 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4992 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4993 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4994 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4995 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4996 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4997 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4998
499961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5000 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5001 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5002 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5003
17ffcae7
PH
500462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5005 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5006
d95f9fdb
PH
500763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5008 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5009 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5010 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5011 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5012
86b8287f
PH
501364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5014 This has been fixed.
5015
60dc5e56
PH
501665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5017 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5018 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5019 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5020 the caching.)
5021
533244af
PH
502266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5023
a5a28604
PH
502467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5025 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5026 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5027 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5028
7e634d24
PH
502968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5030 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5031
3e11c26b
PH
503269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5033 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5034 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5035
6729cf78
PH
503670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5037 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5038 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5039 message there.
5040
00f00ca5
PH
504171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5042 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5043 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5044
c9bdd01c
PH
504572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5046 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5047 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5048 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5049
d43194df
PH
505073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5051 during host lookups.
5052
fe5b5d0b
PH
505374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5054 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5055
5056 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5057
76a2d7ba
PH
505875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5059 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5060 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5061 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5062 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5063 background.
5064
506576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5066 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5067
04f7d5b9
PH
506877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5069 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5070 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5071
bc60667e
PH
507278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5073
bb6e88ff
PH
507479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5075 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5076 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5077 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5078 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5079 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5080 process earlier.
5081
1e70f85b
PH
508280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5083 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5084 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5085 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5086 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5087
508881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5089 tables).
5090
4e01f9d6
PH
509182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5092
1ee1cef2
PH
509383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5094 "vacation" handling.
5095
6e2b4ccc
PH
509684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5097 OS variants using glibc.
5098
8e669ac1
PH
509985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5100
495ae4b0 5101
bbe902f0
PH
5102----------------------------------------------------
5103See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5104----------------------------------------------------
5105
5106
5107Exim version 4.44
5108-----------------
5109
5110 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5111 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5112 transport
5113
5114 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5115 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5116 place.
5117
5118 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5119 filter fails to execute.
5120
5121 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5122 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5123 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5124 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5125 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5126
5127 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5128 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5129 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5130 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5131
5132 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5133 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5134 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5135 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5136 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5137
5138 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5139
5140 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5141 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5142 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5143 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5144
5145 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5146 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5147 sender verification.
5148
514910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5150 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5151
515211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5153 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5154
515512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5156 ignore_target_hosts.
5157
515813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5159 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5160 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5161 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5162 "[x.x.x.x]".
5163
516414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5165 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5166 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5167
516815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5169 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5170 wake it up if nothing else does.
5171
517216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5173 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5174 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5175 end up negative.
5176
517717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5178 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5179
ea3a6f44 518018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5181
518219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5183 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5184 empty pattern.
5185
518620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5187 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5188 one IP address.
5189
ea3a6f44
NM
519021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5191 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5192 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5193 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5194 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5195 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5196
ea3a6f44
NM
519722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5198 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5199 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5200
520123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5202 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5203 $sender_host_address.
5204
520524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5206
ea3a6f44
NM
520725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5208 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5209 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5210
521126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5212 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5213
ea3a6f44
NM
521427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5215 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5216
ea3a6f44
NM
521728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5218 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5219 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5220 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5221
522229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5223 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5224 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5225
ea3a6f44
NM
522630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5227 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5228 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5229 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5230
ea3a6f44
NM
523131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5232 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5233 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5234
ea3a6f44
NM
523531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5236 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5237
ea3a6f44
NM
523832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5239 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5240 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5241 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5242 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5243 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5244 is going on).
bbe902f0 5245
ea3a6f44
NM
524633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5247 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5248 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5249 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5250 CAN-2005-0021
5251
ea3a6f44
NM
525234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5253 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5254 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5255 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5256 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5257 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5258 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5259
5260 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5261 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5262 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5263 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5264 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5265 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5266 CAN-2005-0021
5267
ea3a6f44
NM
526835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5269 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5270 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5271 CAN-2005-0022
5272
ea3a6f44
NM
527336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5274 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5275 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5276 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5277 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5278
ea3a6f44
NM
527937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5280 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5281 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5282 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5283 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5284
ea3a6f44
NM
528538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5286 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5287 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5288 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5289 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5290
5291
495ae4b0
PH
5292Exim version 4.43
5293-----------------
5294
5295 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5296 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5297 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5298 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5299 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5300 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5301 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5302
5303 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5304 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5305 the delivery.
5306
5307 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5308
5309 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5310
5311 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5312 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5313 to local_scan().
5314
5315 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5316 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5317 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5318 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5319 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5320
5321 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5322 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5323
5324 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5325
5326 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5327
532810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5329 header_sender only.
5330
533111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5332 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5333
533412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5335 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5336 affecting debugging statements).
5337
533813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5339
534014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5341 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5342 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5343 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5344 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5345 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5346 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5347 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5348 after the received time, and all would be well.
5349
535015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5351 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5352 condition in an expansion string.
5353
535416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5355
535617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5357 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5358 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5359 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5360 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5361 job under whatever limits there are.
5362
536318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5364
536519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5366 space).
5367
536820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5369 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5370 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5371 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5372 return path is set.
5373
537421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5375 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5376 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5377 binary data in such strings.
5378
537922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5380
538123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5382 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5383 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5384 failure, which is pointless.
5385
538624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5387
538825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5389
539026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5391 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5392 Sender: header lines.
5393
539427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5395 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5396 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5397
539828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5399 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5400 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5401 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5402 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5403 happens.
5404
540529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5406 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5407 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5408 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5409 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5410
541130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5412 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5413 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5414 1024.
5415
541631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5417 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5418
541932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5420 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5421
542233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5423
542432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5425
542633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5427
542834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5429 syntax error.
5430
543135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5432
543336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5434
543537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5436 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5437 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5438 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5439
544038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5441 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5442
5443
5444Exim version 4.42
5445-----------------
5446
5447 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5448 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5449 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5450 it was not quoted.
5451 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5452 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5453 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5454 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5455 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5456 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5457
5458 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5459 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5460 verification failure".
5461
5462 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5463 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5464 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5465 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5466
5467 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5468 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5469 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5470 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5471 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5472 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5473 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5474 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5475 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5476 treated as a timeout.
5477
5478 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5479 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5480 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5481 not set for Exim filters).
5482
5483 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5484 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5485 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5486
5487 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5488
5489 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5490 try to make them clearer.
5491
5492 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5493 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5494
5495 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5496
5497 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5498
549910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5500 only the Cygwin environment.
5501
550211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5503 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5504 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5505 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5506 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5507
550812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5509 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5510 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5511 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5512 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5513 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5514 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5515
551613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5517 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5518
551914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5520
5521 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5522 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5523 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5524
5525 To: susanne@some.where
5526
5527 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5528 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5529 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5530 of addresses in From: header lines).
5531
5532 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5533 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5534 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5535
5536 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5537 treated as non-personal.
5538
5539 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5540 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5541
554215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5543
554416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5545
554617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5547 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5548 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5549
555018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5551 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5552
555319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5554 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5555 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5556 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5557 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5558 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5559
556020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5561 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5562 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5563 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5564 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5565 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5566 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5567 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5568
5569 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5570
557121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5572 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5573
557422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5575 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5576 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5577
557823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5579 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5580
558124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5582 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5583 rather than long int.
5584
558525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5586
558726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5588
5589
5590Exim version 4.41
5591-----------------
5592
5593 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5594 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5595 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5596 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5597 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5598 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5599
5600
5601Exim version 4.40
5602-----------------
5603
5604 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5605 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5606
5607 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5608 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5609 socklen_t is defined.
5610
5611 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5612 always exist.
5613
5614 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5615 configured.
5616
5617 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5618 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5619 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5620 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5621 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5622
5623 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5624 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5625 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5626 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5627
5628 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5629 of flapping under certain conditions.
5630
5631 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5632 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5633 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5634
5635 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5636
563710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5638
563911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5640 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5641 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5642 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5643
564412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5645 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5646 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5647 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5648 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5649 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5650 preserved with the message after it was received.
5651
565213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5653 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5654 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5655 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5656 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5657 test suite worked just fine.
5658
565914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5660 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5661 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5662
566315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5664 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5665 string.
5666
566716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5668 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5669 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5670 does not fully solve it.
5671
567217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5673 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5674 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5675 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5676 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5677
567818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5679 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5680 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5681
568219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5683 string, for example:
5684
5685 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5686
5687 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5688 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5689 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5690 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5691 the routers could not see them.
5692
569320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5694 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5695
569621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5697 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5698 output).
5699
570022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5701 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5702 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5703 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5704 that needed quoting.
5705
570623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5707 was not being matched caselessly.
5708
570924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5710 backslashes.
5711
571225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5713 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5714 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5715 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5716 when use_sender is false.
5717
571826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5719
572027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5721
572228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5723
572429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5725 the configuration file.
5726
572730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5728 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5729
573031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5731
573232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5733 bytes in the message body.
5734
573533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5736 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5737 delivery.
5738
573934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5740
574135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5742
574336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5744 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5745 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5746 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5747 another IP address.
5748
5749
5750Exim version 4.34
5751-----------------
5752
5753 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5754 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5755
5756 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5757 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5758 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5759 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5760 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5761
5762 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5763 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5764
5765 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5766 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5767 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5768
5769 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5770 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5771 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5772
5773 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5774 for routers.
5775
5776 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5777 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5778 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5779 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5780 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5781 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5782 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5783
5784
5785Exim version 4.33
5786-----------------
5787
5788 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5789 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5790 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5791 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5792 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5793 default (and expected) setting.
5794
5795 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5796 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5797 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5798 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5799
5800 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5801 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5802
5803 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5804 in domain lists.
5805
5806 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5807 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5808 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5809 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5810 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5811 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5812
5813 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5814 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5815 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5816
5817 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5818 part (NOT match_host).
5819
5820 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5821
5822 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5823 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5824 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5825 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5826 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5827 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5828 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5829 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5830 the same named file.
5831
583210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5833 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5834 when Exim is built.
5835
583611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5837 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5838 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5839 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5840 a host name.
5841
584212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5843 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5844 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5845
584613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5847
584814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5849
585015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5851
585216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5853 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5854
585517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5856 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5857 before starting the TLS session.
5858
585918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5860
586119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5862 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5863
586420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5865 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5866 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5867 colon in the middle).
5868
5869
5870Exim version 4.32
5871-----------------
5872
5873 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5874 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5875 multiple configurations are in use.
5876
5877 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5878 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5879 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5880 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5881 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5882 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5883
5884 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5885 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5886
5887 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5888 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5889 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5890
5891 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5892 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5893 occurs.
5894
5895 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5896 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5897
5898 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5899
5900 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5901 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5902
5903 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5904
5905 -prval:sval
5906
5907 is equivalent to
5908
5909 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5910
5911 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5912 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5913 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5914 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5915 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5916
591710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5918 Exim's behaviour:
5919
5920 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5921 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5922 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5923 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5924 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5925 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5926
5927 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5928 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5929 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5930 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5931 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5932 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5933 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5934 string.
5935
5936 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5937 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5938 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5939 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5940 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5941
594211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5943
594412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5945 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5946 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5947
594813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5949
595014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5951 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5952 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5953 information.
5954
595515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5956 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5957
595816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5959 Three changes have been made:
5960
5961 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5962 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5963 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5964 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5965 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5966
5967 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5968 been restored.
5969
5970 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5971 the modified behaviour.
5972
5973
5974Exim version 4.31
5975-----------------
5976
5977 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5978 Larry Rosenman.
5979
5980 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5981 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5982
5983 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5984 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5985 try to track down a specific problem.
5986
5987 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5988 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5989 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5990
5991 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5992 warning.
5993
5994 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5995 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5996 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5997 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5998 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5999 some earlier ones do not.
6000
6001 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6002
6003 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6004 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6005 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6006 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6007 address literals are enabled, of course).
6008
6009 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6010
601110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6012 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6013 by a command such as
6014
6015 exim -f "" ...
6016
6017 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6018
601911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6020
602112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6022 remained set. It is now erased.
6023
602413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6025 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6026
602714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6028 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6029 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6030 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6031 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6032 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6033 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6034 appropriate error code.
6035
603615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6037 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6038 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6039 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6040 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6041 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6042
604316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6044 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6045 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6046
604717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6048 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6049 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6050 terminate the header.
6051
605218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6053 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6054 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6055
605619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6057 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6058 (4.30/29). In particular:
6059
6060 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6061 imposed.
6062
6063 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6064 to write a maildirsize file.
6065
6066 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6067 the transport, the new value overrides.
6068
6069 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6070 count.
6071
607220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6073 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6074 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6075 space or a tab.
6076
607721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6078 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6079 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6080 the fallback hosts.
6081
608222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6083 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6084 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6085
608623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6087 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6088 using a union.
6089
609024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6091 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6092 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6093
609425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6095
609626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6097
609827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6099
610028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6101 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6102 become corrupted.
6103
610429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6105 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6106 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6107 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6108 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6109 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6110 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6111 too great.
6112
611330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6114 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6115 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6116 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6117 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6118 incorrectly.
6119
612031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6121 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6122 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6123 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6124 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6125 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6126 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6127 cached value only when the same options are set.
6128
612932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6130
613133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6132 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6133 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6134 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6135 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6136
613734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6138 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6139 it is clearly obsolete.
6140
614135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6142 transport.
6143
614436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6145 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6146 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6147 times.
6148
614937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6150 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6151 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6152 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6153 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6154
615538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6156 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6157 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6158 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6159
616039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6161
6162 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6163
6164 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6165 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6166 2^31.
6167
616840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6169 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6170 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6171 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6172 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6173 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6174 $localpart_data.
6175
617641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6177 with the -f command-line option.
6178
617942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6180 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6181 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6182 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6183 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6184 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6185
618643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6187 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6188 line.
6189
619044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6191 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6192 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6193 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6194 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6195 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6196 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6197 buffer is too small.
6198
619945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6200 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6201
620246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6203 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6204 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6205 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6206 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6207 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6208 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6209 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6210 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6211
621247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6213 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6214 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6215
621648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6217 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6218 ACL").
6219
622049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6221 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6222 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6223 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6224 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6225
622650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6227 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6228 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6229 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6230 is set.
6231
623251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6233
623452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6235
623653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6237 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6238
623954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6240 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6241 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6242
624355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6244 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6245 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6246 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6247 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6248
624956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6250 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6251 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6252 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6253 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6254 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6255 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6256
625757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6258 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6259 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6260 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6261 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6262 the test of how many are available.
6263
626458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6265 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6266 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6267 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6268 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6269 new message is started.
6270
627159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6272 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6273
627460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6275 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6276
627761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6278 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6279 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6280 is no long logged.
6281
628262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6283 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6284 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6285 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6286 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6287 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6288 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6289
629063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6291 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6292 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6293 interpreted as octal.
6294
629564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6296 setting.
6297
629865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6299 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6300 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6301 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6302 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6303 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6304
630566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6306 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6307 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6308 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6309
6310 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6311 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6312 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6313 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6314
6315 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6316 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6317 is a bug fix.
6318
6319 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6320 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6321
632267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6323
632468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6325 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6326 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6327 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6328
632969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6330 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6331 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6332 supplied", which is not helpful.
6333
633470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6335 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6336 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6337
633871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6339 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6340 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6341 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6342 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6343 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6344 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6345 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6346
634772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6348 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6349 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6350 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6351 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6352
635373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6354 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6355 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6356 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6357 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6358 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6359
636074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6361 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6362 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6363
636475. Added write_rejectlog option.
6365
636676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6367 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6368 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6369 variables.
6370
637177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6372
637378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6374 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6375 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6376 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6377 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6378 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6379 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6380 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6381
638279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6383 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6384 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6385 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6386 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6387
638880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6389 Haardt.
6390
639181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6392 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6393 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6394 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6395 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6396 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6397 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6398 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6399 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6400
6401
6402Exim version 4.30
6403-----------------
6404
6405 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6406 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6407 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6408
6409 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6410 fixed.
6411
6412 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6413 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6414 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6415
6416 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6417 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6418 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6419 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6420 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6421 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6423 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6424 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6425 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6426 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6427 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6428 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6429 the Exim test suite.
6430
6431 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6432 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6433 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6434 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6435
6436 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6437 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6438 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6439 specify it in this variable.
6440
6441 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6442 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6443 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6444 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6445
6446 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6447 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6448 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6449 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6450
6451 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6452 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6453 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6454 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6455 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6456
6457 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6458
645910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6460 they are logged.
6461
646211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6463 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6464 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6465 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6466 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6467
646812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6469 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6470
647113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6472 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6473 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6474 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6475 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6476
647714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6478 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6479
648015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6481 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6482 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6483
648416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6485 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6486
648717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6488 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6489
649018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6491 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6492 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6493
649419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6495 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6496
649720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6498 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6499 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6500 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6501
650221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6503
650422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6505 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6506 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6507 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6508
650923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6510
651124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6512 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6513
651425. Added .include_if_exists.
6515
651626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6517 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6518 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6519 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6520 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6521 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6522
652327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6524
652528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6526 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6527 this.
6528
652929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6530
653130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6532 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6533
6534 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6535 550 Sender verify failed
6536
6537 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6538 the final line of the response.
6539
654031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6541 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6542 all other user lookups.
6543
654432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6545 delivery time.
6546
654733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6548 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6549 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6550 result into an int without checking.
6551
655234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6553 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6554 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6555
655635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6557 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6558 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6559 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6560
656136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6562 correctly.
6563
656437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6565 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6566
656738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6568 to the empty sender.
6569
657039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6571 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6572 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6573 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6574 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6575 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6576 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6577 panic log.
6578
657940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6580 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6581 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6582 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6583 used.
6584
658541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6586 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6587
658842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6589 timestamps.
6590
659143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6592 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6593
659444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6595
659645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6597 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6598 logs.
6599
660046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6601 as soon as it is encountered.
6602
660347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6604
660548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6606 rewritten to "<>".
6607
660849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6609 recognizes a tab character.
6610
661150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6612 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6613 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6614 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6615
661651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6617
661852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6619 crash.
6620
662153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6622
662354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6624
662555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6626 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6627 2822.
6628
662956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6630 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6631 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6632 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6633 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6634
663557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6636 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6637
663858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6639 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6640 list (.included file names were always shown).
6641
664259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6643 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6644 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6645 root at that time.
6646
664760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6648 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6649
665061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6651
665262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6653
665463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6655
665664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6657 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6658 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6659 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6660 failures to open the logs.
6661
666265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6663 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6664 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6665 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6666 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6667 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6668 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6669
6670
6671Exim version 4.24
6672-----------------
6673
6674 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6675 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6676 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6677 change 4.23/1.
6678
6679 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6680 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6681 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6682
6683 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6684 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6685 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6686
6687 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6688 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6689 causing some misleading effects.
6690
6691 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6692 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6693 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6694
6695 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6696 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6697 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6698 queue-runner function directly.
6699
6700
6701Exim version 4.23
6702-----------------
6703
6704 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6705 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6706
6707 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6708 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6709 was always written to the default place.
6710
6711 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6712 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6713 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6714
6715 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6716
6717 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6718
6719 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6720 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6721 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6722
6723 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6724 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6725 must start.
6726
6727 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6728 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6729 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6730
6731 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6732 command line option is disabled.
6733
6734 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6735 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6736
6737 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6738
6739 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6740
6741 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6742 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6743
674410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6745
674611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6747 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6748 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6749 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6750 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6751 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6752
675312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6754 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6755 timeout.
6756
675713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6758 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6759
676014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6761 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6762
676315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6764 received was valid base64.
6765
676616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6767 name of the variable that was being set.
6768
676917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6770
677118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6772 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6773 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6774 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6775 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6776 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6777
677819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6779
678020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6781 nor realm was specified.
6782
678321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6784 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6785 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6786 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6787
678822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6789 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6790 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6791
679223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6793 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6794 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6795
679624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6797 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6798 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6799 some systems use these upper case variants.
6800
680125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6802 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6803 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6804 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6805
680626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6807
680827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6809 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6810
681128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6812 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6813 expansion variable.
6814
681529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6816
681730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6818 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6819 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6820 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6821
682231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6823 using it.
6824
682532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6826 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6827 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6828
682933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6830 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6831
683234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6833 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6834 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6835 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6836
683735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6838 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6839 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6840
684136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6842
684337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6844 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6845 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6846 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6847 aborted.
6848
684938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6850 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6851 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6852
685339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6854
685540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6856 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6857
685841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6859 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6860
686142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6862 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6863 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6864 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6865 when emails are that large.
6866
6867
6868
6869Exim version 4.22
6870-----------------
6871
6872 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6873 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6874
6875 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6876 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6877 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6878
6879 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6880 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6881 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6882
6883 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6884 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6885 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6886 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6887 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6888
6889 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6890 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6891 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6892 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6893 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6894 ever.
6895
6896 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6897 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6898 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6899 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6900 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6901 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6902 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6903 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6904 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6905 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6906 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6907 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6908 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6909 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6910
6911 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6912 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6913 parameterised it.
6914
6915 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6916 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6917 error should be diagnosed.
6918
6919 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6920 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6921 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6922 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6923 appeared instead of "NULL".
6924
692510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6926 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6927 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6928 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6929 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6930 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6931 proceeds).
6932
6933 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6934 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6935 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6936
6937
6938Exim version 4.21
6939-----------------
6940
6941 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6942 or receiver verification errors.
6943
6944 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6945 name.
6946
6947 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6948 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6949 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6950 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6951
6952 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6953 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6954 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6955 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6956 shouldn't happen again.
6957
6958 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6959 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6960 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6961
6962 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6963 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6964
6965 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6966
6967 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6968 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6969
6970 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6971 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6972 RFC.
6973
697410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6975 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6976 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6977
697811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6979 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6980 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6981 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6982
698312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6984 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6985 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6986 to define what should happen).
6987
698813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6989 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6990 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6991
699214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6993
699415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6995
699616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6997 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6998
4c04137d 699917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7000 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7001 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7002 structure in all cases.
7003
7004 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7005 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7006 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7007 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7008
700918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7010 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7011 domain name.
7012
701319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7014 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7015
701620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7017 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7018
701921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7020 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7021 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7022
702322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7024 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7025 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7026
702723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7028 the book and for uniformity.
7029
703024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7031
703225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7033 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7034 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7035 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7036 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7037 non-existent command as the problem.
7038
703926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7040 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7041 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7042
704327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7044
704528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7046 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7047 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7048
704929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7050 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7051 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7052 timestamps using strftime().
7053
705430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7055 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7056
705732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7058 transport-time rewrites.
7059
706033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7061 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7062 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7063 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7064
706534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7066 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7067
706835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7069 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7070 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7071 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7072 comma and a space.
7073
707436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7075 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7076 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7077 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7078 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7079 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7080 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7081
708237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7083 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7084 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7085 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7086 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7087
708838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7089 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7090 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7091 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7092 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7093 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7094 remaining text gets split now.
7095
709639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7097 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7098 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7099 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7100
710140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7102 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7103 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7104 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7105 $return_path.
7106
710741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7108 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7109 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7110 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7111 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7112 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7113 passed through if needed.
7114
711542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7116 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7117 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7118 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7119 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7120 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7121
712243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7123 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7124 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7125 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7126 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7127
712844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7129 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7130 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7131 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7132 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7133
713445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7135 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7136 noticed.
7137
713846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7139 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7140 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7141 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7142 mayhem of various kinds.
7143
714447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7145 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7146 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7147 the right test for positive values.
7148
714948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7150 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7151 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7152 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7153 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7154 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7155 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7156 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7157 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7158 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7159 envelope.
7160
716149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7162 module.
7163
716450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7165 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7166 forbidding it.
7167
716851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7169 the existing equality matching.
7170
717152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7172 dealing with inode numbers.
7173
717453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7175 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7176 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7177
717854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7179 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7180 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7181 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7182 local_scan().
7183
718455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7185 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7186 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7187 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7188 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7189 relay addresses has also been removed.
7190
719156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7192
719357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7194 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7195 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7196
719758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7198 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7199 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7200 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7201 processing applies to CR:
7202
7203 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7204 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7205
7206 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7207 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7208 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7209 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7210
721159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7212 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7213 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7214
721560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7216 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7217 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7218 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7219 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7220 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7221 arisen.
7222
722361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7224 program routers.
7225
722662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7227 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7228 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7229 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7230 adds:
7231
7232 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7233
7234 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7235
7236 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7237
723863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7239 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7240 not considered personal.
7241
724264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7243
724465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7245
724666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7247
724867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7249 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7250 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7251 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7252 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7253 header lines, and spool format errors.
7254
725568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7256 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7257 for more flexibility.
7258
725969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7260 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7261 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7262
726370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7264 Sabourenkov.
7265
726671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7267 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7268 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7269 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7270 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7271 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7272 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7273 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7274 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7275
727672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7277 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7278 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7279 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7280 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7281 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7282 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7283
728473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7285 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7286 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7287
728874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7289 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7290 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7291 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7292 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7293 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7294 instead of killing the process with assert().
7295
729675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7297 than Unicode encoding.
7298
729976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7300 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7301 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7302 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7303
730477. Added process_log_path.
7305
730678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7307 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7308
730979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7310 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7311
731280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7313 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7314 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7315
731681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7317 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7318 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7319 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7320 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7321 were applied:
7322
7323 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7324 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7325 as invalid.
7326
732782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7328 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7329 they will be used during message reception.
7330
7331
7332Exim version 4.20
7333-----------------
7334
7335The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7336
7337****